It all started with a music video for a song about a deadbeat dude. "Lost Cause," Billie Eilish's fourth single off her upcoming album Happier Than Ever, dropped on June 2, and the visuals feature the singer and her friends having a good,…

Praise the Hot Girl gods, because Tina Snow, aka Megan Thee Stallion, is back in business and wasting no time destroying her detractors — or at least pretending to in her latest music video. Meg’s new single “Thot Shit” dropped at midnight on…

Trying to box Willow Smith into a hairstyle, let alone a genre of music, just leads to her cutting her hair off in defiance and rocking out however she wants. In a recent cover story interview for V Magazine, Smith opened up about how her creative…

One of the most elusive luxuries of any entertainer or athlete is being able to control your end. Kobe Bryant and Dwayne Wade knew when their last seasons in the NBA were, so they had farewell tours. Jay-Z thought The Black Album was his final…

El Último Tour Del Mundo conquered the music charts in November, becoming Billboard‘s first all-Spanish #1 album. Now, Bad Bunny is back with his first solo single since then, "Yonaguni," and it's a catchy crooner about trying to forget your ex, but…

Purple Rain made Prince a superstar, but he soon grew tired of the material and brought the accompanying tour to a halt in April 1985, less than a year after the album’s debut. Journalist and documentarian Duane Tudahl’s new book Prince and the…

In late April, rapper and certified Hot Girl Megan Thee Stallion announced she was taking a well-deserved break. The last year had been a roller coaster, between the massive success of singles like "Savage" and "WAP," a violent assault that sent her…

Even if you’re not really into Astrology and haven’t been to a dinner party in over a year (or, like, a decade), Spotify has you covered with the announcement of a version of its “Wrapped” in-app feature that you can access before the year is up.…

In 1977, the Combahee River Collective, a Black feminist lesbian socialist organization, wrote in a statement: “Black women are inherently valuable, that our liberation is a necessity not as an adjunct to somebody else's but because of our need as…

Should we be adding the label of auteur to Billie Eilish’s resume? Having directed the videos for her singles “everything I wanted” and “Therefore I Am”, the pop star hops back in the director’s chair for her new track “Lost Cause.” Surrounded by…

The question of Ricky Martin's sexuality haunted the singer years before he came out publicly in 2010. The unspoken question — "Are you...?" — hung over every interaction, Martin told People magazine, even as he was trying to figure out the answer…

If the past year and a half has been universally and consistently spent on anything outside of doom scrolling, it’s daydreaming about the moment when the world opens back up. In those visions, we’d hug our friends and family tightly, never stay in…

You shouldn't mess with the Linda Lindas. The all-female punk band, whose members range in age from 10 to 16, isn't afraid to put mean people on blast with their music. That's the story behind their viral hit, "Racist, Sexist Boy," a riot…

Trigger Warning: This piece contains descriptions and true accounts of sexual assault. "I went through a really crazy time, in my head, that I still work on," Lady Gaga divulged to Oprah Winfrey in The Me You Can't See, a new Apple TV+ series…

With COVID-19 infections on the decline and vaccinations on the rise, live music is finally coming back. A full-sized Lollapalooza crowd will descend on Chicago in July. Colorado's famed Red Rocks Amphitheater plans to resume full-capacity concerts…

From the earliest songs under his current stage name — not the knotty, nasally demos he uploaded to a Canibus message board as a teenager, though those are informative in their own way — J. Cole’s has been a project about canonizing himself in real…

[This story has a small spoiler for the film Wrath of Man.] As a musician, Post Malone has somehow managed to achieve a complete and total mind-meld with the algorithm. His music is on the playlist of every frat party and airport Starbucks in the…

When MF DOOM passed away last year, comics publisher Troy-Jeffrey Allen felt he had lost one of the most important artistic influences on his life. “He was one of those dudes that made me feel like it was okay to want to create stuff,” he tells…

Back in December, a West Texas teenager was punished with in-school suspension for going to class with painted fingernails. You see, the Clyde High School student handbook prohibits boys from wearing makeup and nail polish. Trevor Wilkinson took his…