It’s fairly obvious for anyone even remotely following the tabloids that Jack Antonoff, the 34-year old Bleachers founder and ubiquitous pop producer, is dating 21-year old New Zealand pop star Lorde, whose 2017 album, Melodrama, was produced by Antonoff. Still, that hasn’t stopped the pair from denying such rumors at…
Though the bulk of the statuettes had been handed out before the 60th Grammy Awards telecast began, the ceremony was still a lively affair thanks to stirring performances from Kendrick Lamar, Kesha, and Childish Gambino. But as the night went on, astute viewers noticed how few female nominees were making their way to…
It’s a New Year, and with it comes the opportunity for a fresh start—to take a hard and unflinching look at the areas in our lives that could stand to be improved, then to immediately give up on that and start thinking about how pop culture can better distract us from our problems. In what has become an annual…
There was too much to listen to in 2017—not just albums, of which there were once again thousands, a barrage of releases from major-label veterans and SoundCloud up-and-comers alike, all vying for your attention. There was just too much of everything: a persistent, buzzing storm of push notifications and free-floating…
Lorde announced a lengthy tour in support of her new album Melodrama way back in June, but if tracks like “Green Light” and old hits like “Royals” aren’t enough to get you out of the house and over to your local concert venue, the reveal of Lorde’s tour openers might change that. As reported by Stereogrum, Lorde will…
Lollapalooza was forced to cut itself short tonight, after severe weather in Chicago led organizers (and the city itself) to end a set from Muse after only three songs, and outright cancel a headlining performance from Lorde. The organizers pulled the plug for the night after heavy rain and lightning raised concerns…
“She’s so melodramatic.” It’s an insult nearly every young woman has had lobbed at her, anytime she’s dared cross the heavily policed gates of emotional regulation. Many times it’s even directed to women by other women as a way to devalue feelings, which should always be minimized and neatly packaged when expressed,…
On Tuesday, the rapper Prodigy died at the age of 42. A lot of rappers who released their best work in the ’90s trailed off in the ’00s, but Prodigy stayed prolific and rangy. In 2013, he released the head-turning Alchemist collaboration Albert Einstein, which contained one of his best, grouchiest, old-man-iest…
Now that Lorde’s new album Melodrama, an intricate musical journey about love and sadness, has arrived, she’s heading out on an extensive tour. While she had already revealed her jaunt across the U.K., Europe, Australia, and her homeland of New Zealand, now she has announced what North American spots she’ll be…
After months of anticipation, SNL appearances, and the occasional new single, Lorde has finally released her sophomore album, Melodrama. The follow-up to the New Zealand-born singer’s Grammy-nominated 2013 effort Pure Heroine, the album—per an interview she recently gave to The New York Times—tracks the ups and downs…
Becoming really, really famous involves a certain amount of sacrifice. You have to give up your privacy, travel constantly, and, perhaps least importantly, lose control of your social media presence. Tweets and Instagrams must go through a panel of PR flacks who eliminate any semblance of personality in favor of…
We’re two weeks out from the release of Melodrama, the sophomore album from Grammy winner and platinum-selling pop singer Lorde. And the New Zealand singer-songwriter seems to be filling the time with an equal mixture of concerts, cute gestures to the world’s smoothie makers, and new music. After releasing “Green…
Lorde, the pop star who partakes in the most delightful DGAF thrashing, did a nice thing recently. After visiting a fancy smoothie chain in New York and meeting a starstruck employee, the “Royals” singer then invited her new acquaintance to come to Governors Ball this weekend, where she’s performing along with Chance…
Every Friday, dozens of new records are released into the wild. Some make big splashes, and others sink almost immediately. For most music consumers, it’s almost too much information, and save for those precious few who spend their hours glued to review sites and release calendars, it’s hard to know what’s coming out…
New festivals have popped up all over the country in the last decade, turning fields and parks into open-air venues packed with revelers, from Bonnaroo to Lollapalooza to dozens of smaller, more niche celebrations. Life Is Beautiful throws a pretty amazing curveball at the big-festival game by staging in downtown Las…
It’s been almost three years since youthful Grammy winner Lorde last played an actual concert (as opposed to awards shows SNL), a streak the “Royals” singer broke last night with a surprise show in California. Lorde abruptly tweeted out the details of the show a few hours before it was set to start, announcing that…
“I’m not an actor, I’m a [very talented, not at all Asian, Five-Timers Club] star!”
Just a few days after releasing a mysterious teaser that didn’t offer any information other than a date—today’s date, to be specific—Lorde has released a new single. Titled “Green Light,” the song is the first new single from Lorde in about three years—her last single, “Yellow Flicker Beat” off of the The Hunger…
A few days ago, we reported that Lorde would be the musical guest on the March 11 episode of Saturday Night Live, and though we’d all love to hear “Royals” again, it seems like she actually has some new stuff in the works instead. According to a Stereogum, a mysterious TV ad recently aired in New Zealand that seemed…
Today, the Saturday Night Live Twitter account announced the hosts and musical guests for two of its upcoming shows. On March 4, Octavia Spencer will host with Father John Misty as the musical guest, and on March 11, Scarlett Johansson will host alongside musical guest Lorde. That’s literally all we know at the…
