In a scene that we desperately hope manages to make its way into season 70 or so of The Crown, Queen Elizabeth II of the U.K. will celebrate her 92nd birthday this year in the company of family, friends, and Shaggy. The “Angel” singer is one of several acts who have been scheduled for the queen’s upcoming birthday…
Swedish DJ and producer Tim Bergling, who performed under the name Avicii, has died at the age of 28, according to a statement from his publicist. “It is with profound sorrow that we announce the loss of Tim Bergling, also known as Avicii,” the statement reads. “He was found dead in Muscat, Oman, this Friday afternoon…
Janelle Monáe heralded the arrival of her third studio album, Dirty Computer, with a teaser for an accompanying “emotion picture” featuring Afrofuturist themes and her pal Tessa Thompson. The clip has whet the appetite for the 44-minute sci-fi short, just as her gorgeous videos for the singles “Make Me Feel” and…
This week, Kanye West announced that a recent string of galaxy brain tweets he posted were actually a philosophy book that he’s writing “in real time,” but it turns out that he actually has some more traditional creative outputs in the works as well. Today, in another series of tweets, West revealed that he’s putting…
Prince was a prolific artist, so much so that Warner Bros. and Universal got into a bit of a feud over which company would get to control the contents of his vault of unreleased recordings, but Prince’s estate is now looking to get all of his stuff organized by hiring a dedicated “archives supervisor” at Paisley Park.…
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Senator Bernie Sanders is an effortlessly cool dude who is always right about everything, at least far as half of Reddit is concerned (the other half worships a different political idol), and today he once again played to his coolest supporters by hopping on Twitter and saying that he agrees with Cardi B about the…
Over the last week, Kanye West has come roaring back into the public eye, first with an announcement that he’s writing a philosophy book called Break The Simulation that partly involves the weird artificiality of taking photographs and then with some proper brain-blowing tweets about how “some people have to work…
This summer marks the 20th anniversary of seminal hip-hop album The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill, and Lauryn Hill is marking the occasion with a special anniversary tour dedicated to the album. Hill will be performing Miseducation in full, and each stop on the tour will feature “special guest performers” that haven’t…
Earlier this year, UK blues-rock act Gomez announced that it would be reissuing Bring It On, the band’s Mercury Music Prize-winning record first released in 1998. That reissue, due out April 20, will come as both a double LP set and a 4-CD extravaganza, complete with 35 previously unreleased tracks, including 25 demos…
Internet celebrity and music producer DJ Khaled made headlines this week—the non-getting-dunked-on-by-Jack-White kind, for once—with his announcement that he intended to trademark the name of his 18-month-old son, Asahd. And while promises of Asahd-branded “cosmetics, clothing, video games, children’s books, pacifiers…
Late last year, Morrissey threw a prolonged tantrum after a German news site had the gall to publish some truly terrible things he said in an interview about sexual assault, the Holocaust, and refugees, with the former Smiths frontman accusing the outlet of editing his comments specifically to make him look bad. The…
A Perfect Circle has just released a new “music video” set to help this MTV generation of ours open up our minds, question our culture, and really think about what matters most. The track, “So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish,” is taken from the forthcoming Eat the Elephant, which marks the band’s first LP in 14…
We’ve always thought of Drake as too much of a goofball to pull off the whole “stone-faced assassin curb stomping gangsters in an elevator” look (see: his video congratulating LeBron James on 30,000 career points), but nevertheless Degrassi’s most famous alum is taking inspiration from Ryan Gosling and Drive to…
The creepy clowns that terrified America by lurking in bushes and along dark highways throughout the fall of 2016 have disappeared, but just because those clowns seem to have gone into hibernation doesn’t mean that the greasepainted threat is gone for good. Anyone who’s read Stephen King’s IT—or seen the 1990 TV…
As the videos for “Make Me Feel” and “Pynk” so amply demonstrated, Janelle Monáe knows how to prime her fans for her new album. First, the Electric Lady artist paired a Prince homage (which the Purple One actually had a hand in creating) with the swagger of “Django Jane,” which she followed up with an ode to the all…
Though David Koresh is best known as the leader of the Branch Davidians—the apocalyptic Christians who gained infamy during the 51-day government siege of their ranch outside of Waco, Texas—he didn’t just spread his message by speaking. No, prophesying, demanding work that it is, can’t be confined just to preaching…
Not everyone is cool enough to have gone to Coachella this weekend, but those of us who weren’t there didn’t miss out on anything too spectacular—except, of course, for what sounds like a huge headlining performance from Beyoncé. As reported by Spin, she got an assist from JAY-Z early on for “Déjà Vu” and Solange…
If there’s one thing that unifies most of the “great” philosophers of history, it’s that most of them couldn’t rap for shit. Socrates, Kierkegaard, Kant; they all had weak flow, and next-to-no grasp of production or meter. (Or, to put it another way, there was nothing sick about The Sickness Unto Death.)
Lo, in these many hours since we first uncovered the boot-scoot-boogeyin’ boy Mason Ramsey—it’s been more than a week, now!—his Walmart-based yodeling habits have been remixed into oblivion as the internet chewed up and spat out its latest meme. But during that time, Ramsey has capitalized on his moment in the…
