Up-and-coming rapper and leader in the Brooklyn drill movement, Pop Smoke, was killed Wednesday morning. According to Fox LA, the rapper, born Bashar Jackson, was in a Hollywood Hills home owned by Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave and her husband around 4:30 a.m. when two men wearing masks and hoodies broke […]
Neil Young is now officially an American citizen, and you know what that means: He has the God-given rights to bear arms, have a fair trial by jury, and write scathing open letters to his leaders in the Helvetica font. He chose to do the latter this week about Donald Trump, a man he has […]
Five years is an eternity. In the fictional Earth of David Bowieâs The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, it was enough time for the entire planet to die. Here on Earth Prime, it has been enough time for everything to go kind of awry, for hurricanes, wildfires, diseases, and […]
The Weeknd is pivoting yet again from sad boy to goth boy with his new single, âAfter Hours,â the title track off his new album. The single, which clocks in at a hefty six minutes, arrives on the heels of his album title announcement, which dropped on Twitter last week. This all comes well after […]
The folk goddess, the cheekbone icon, the Joni Mitchell has eschewed public life ever since suffering a brain aneurysm in 2015, minus showing up to a select few events that celebrate her greatness. And while Mitchellâs health continues to be a major source of speculation for fans (she was rumored to have lost her speech […]
Lizzo may not have won the Best International Female Solo Artist trophy at the 2020 BRIT Awards, but she still had a phenomenal evening. First, she showed up on the red carpet dressed as a human Hershey bar, probably the most fun awards-season look since the PokĂ©mon-gym-trainer fashions of this yearâs Grammys. Then she performed […]
After the tragic death of Love Island host Caroline Flack on Saturday, a spokesperson for the BRIT Awards confirmed to Sky News that Flackâs onetime boyfriend Harry Styles would perform as planned during Tuesdayâs ceremony. The singer, who has yet to comment publicly on Flackâs death, wore a black ribbon on his suit for the […]
Billie Eilish isnât British, even if her name does sound like a pastoral Cornish hamlet. She did write the latest James Bond theme, however, for the upcoming No Time to Die, and as we all know, James Bond is a British action legend and sex symbol second only to Paddington. So days after debuting âNo […]
Lizzo dressed up like a chocolate bar and, honey, I want that golden ticket. Iâm her Augustus Gloop. Send me down the chocolate river, baby. The R&B artist wore a decadent dress to the 2020 Brit Awards on Tuesday. Sheâs nominated for Best International Female Solo Act and up against Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, Camila […]
As much as I enjoyed the first few episodes of High Fidelity, the new Hulu series based on Nick Hornbyâs 1995 novel and the 2000 film that followed, I didnât fully grasp how necessary it was until the fifth episode. In a scene toward the middle of âUptown,â Rob, the crate-digging record-shop owner played by […]
Things are peachy keen in the first few minutes of the music video for âBad Decisions,â the latest release from the Strokes ahead of their upcoming sixth album, The New Abnormal, the bandâs first in seven years. They debuted the song during their performance at a Bernie Sanders rally last week in New Hampshire, where […]
Adele knows 25 is still our go-to for stress-relief weeping and dramatic post-ghosting sing-alongs. Thatâs why sheâs making us wait until September for her next album. Footage of Adele spilling her own release month at a wedding went around social media over the weekend. The Grammy winner officiated her friend Laura Dockrill and former Maccabees […]
In the wake of his recent disclosure about his Parkinsonâs disease diagnosis, Ozzy Osbourne has announced his decision to cancel upcoming North American tour dates rather than ask fans to potential reschedule around his ongoing health problems. Per the singerâs press release announcing the cancellation of his upcoming No More Tours 2 tour, Osbourne says […]
Do you know the feeling of validating warmth â of internal satisfaction and quiet excitement â that comes with watching two people you love getting along like a house on fire? Someone out there probably has a handy portmanteau for this as-yet unnamed feeling, and if so, Iâd like to know what it is (Freundenfreude?) so […]
Rick James is being posthumously sued for the rape of a 15 year old girl in 1979. The anonymous victim is seeking $50 million in damages, citing years of âphysical, psychological, and emotional injury,â according to the affidavit. According to the Associated Press, the incident allegedly occurred while the victim was living at a youth […]
Jalaiah, creator of Renegade, performs at the NBA All-Star Game! pic.twitter.com/w5qtYTrjeh — NBA (@NBA) February 17, 2020 When a dance you made up in your bedroom can suddenly set the internet on fire, you might end up seeing celebrities, social media stars and millions of TikTok users busting your moves with no idea who came […]
And you may find yourself staring at this beautiful news and calling all of your friends to coordinate ticket plans! In an unprecedented move for the theater industry, David Byrneâs sensational Broadway show American Utopia will be returning in the fall after a brief hiatus. Vulture can confirm that the show will start up again […]
Despite all of her eerie tunes that allude to teens sleeping with their friendsâ fathers, Billie Eilish is a massive, massive Justin Bieber fan, so much so that her childhood bedroom was festooned with Believe-era Biebs posters all over the walls. The duo would go on to meet and collaborate following Eilishâs meteoric rise, and […]
Huge win for the prog rock community. Emerson, Lake & Palmerâs half-hour epic âKarn Evil 9â is being turned into a sci-fi film, with the lyrics serving as the narrativeâs overarching inspiration. Per Deadline, the movie will revolve around how âthe annual âKarn Evilâ â a macabre rite of passage â is a young personâs […]
Back in the early aughts when a young Justin Timberlake was just starting to go solo, a huge concert was being organized by the Rolling Stones in Toronto to benefit a SARS outbreak. Mick Jagger, digginâ the sweet âSeñoritaâ sounds of the future Trolls legend, invited him to perform during the concertâs coveted evening sets […]
Justin Bieber is going through changes. Or ⊠he already went through them? Something is changing and itâs certainly not his love for cringey lyrics. After a break to work on his health, Justin Bieberâs fifth studio album, Changes, details the same three moods heâs always had: sentimental, horny, and spiritual. The Biebs contains multitudes. […]
How much do you think it costs to rent out one of those massive Times Square billboards? Because Harry Stylesâs cover of âBig Yellow Taxiâ by Joni Mitchell deserves a wide distribution. Okay, yes, that maybe defeats the meaning of the song, but the pure joy emanating from this clip needs to be spread! Every […]
Who didnât get married last year? You might find yourself asking this today, scrolling through Facebook Valentineâs Day odes and staring down the barrel of a new Justin Bieber album. But while 2019 revived the Wife Guy, particularly in music, theyâve been around the whole time. We donât mean guys making music with their wives, […]
YG and Kehlani think theyâre on some BeyoncĂ© and Jay-Z âUpgrade Uâtype stuff. The fairly new couple went all âThe Cartersâ for their joint song âKonclusions.â Listen, itâs a good track, but it includes so much we, as a society, didnât need to know about them. Starting right at the beginning of the song, with […]
Following an investigative report published by the New York Times in June 2019, which revealed that hundreds of thousands of master tapes had been destroyed in the 2008 Universal Studios warehouse fire, a group of artists and musiciansâ estates pursued a class-action lawsuit against Universal Music Group. The most recent filing in the lawsuit confirms […]
James Bond is Old Hollywoodâs last man standing, the rare film franchise from the â60s that can still do numbers in the 21st century. People will always show up for a meticulous crime thriller, for a hero who never seems to sweat or worry. A character as adept at cheating death as 007 needs a […]
Hollywoodâs most powerful foursome is now becoming even more powerful. Chris Martin leads Coldplay, Gwyneth Paltrowâs husband Brad Falchuk is one of TVâs biggest producers, GP needs no introduction, and now actress Dakota Johnson is controlling the behind-the-scenes, too. The Peanut Butter Falcon actress directed Coldplayâs latest music video, âCry Cry Cry,â with Cory Bailey. […]
âMusicâs biggest nightâ carried on mostly business as usual on Sunday, but prior to the Grammys ceremony, was overshadowed by weeks-long behind-the-scenes tension. Last Thursday, a dramatic news story broke revealing that Recording Academy president Deborah Dugan, newly in the role as of August 2019, was put on administrative leave only ten days ahead of […]
Remember those latent fears youâve been having that artificial intelligence will one day take over the world ultimately rendering humans unnecessary and utterly meaningless? Well, in case you forgot, âTravisbottâ has arrived to turn those fears into a reality! What is a âTravisbottâ you ask? Well, itâs a deepfake version of rapper Travis Scott that […]
As one Oscars season comes to a close, another opens its doors anew. So begins the 2021 Best Original Song race, with this instant-classic title track for the upcoming James Bond film, No Time to Die, from 18-year-old professional Grammy collector Billie Eilish. Just last Sunday, Eilish made her Academy Awards debut singing a cover […]