Track and field star Sha’Carri Richardson could miss the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for marijuana, The New York Times reports. The 21-year-old sprinter, who won the women’s 100-meter race at the U.S. track and field trials in Oregon last month, accepted a one-month suspension after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency …

BTS will be releasing a new CD single on July 9th, featuring their previous hit “Butter” along with a brand new song that was co-written by Ed Sheeran. The new track, “Permission to Dance,” was written by Sheeran along with Steve Mac, Johnny McDaid, and Jenna Andrews, and produced by …

This piece originally appeared as part of Rolling Stone’s annual Hot List, in the July/August 2021 issue of the magazine. Recently this thing has been happening to Brandan Robertson. He’ll be at a gay bar, minding his own business (sort of), when someone will approach to ask, “Are you a …

Heartless Bastards, the roots-rock band led by Erika Wennerstrom, recently announced their new album: A Beautiful Life is the follow-up to 2015’s Restless Onesand will be released September 10th. Now based in Austin, Wennerstrom enlisted players like Okkervil River guitarist Lauren Gurgiolo and My Morning Jacket keyboardist Bo Koster for …

A decade after the release of Scott Weiland‘s memoir Not Dead and Not for Sale, Dark Pictures and Orian Williams have acquired the rights for a film about the late musician. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Paper Heart will be written by Dark Pictures’ co-founder Jennifer Erwin. It will chronicle …

Billy Porter has shared a cover of Juliet Roberts’ Nineties dance classic, “Caught in the Middle,” from the upcoming charity compilation, Red Hot + Free, out July 2nd. Compiled by the organization Red Hot, the compilation will benefit marginalized communities dealing with HIV and AIDS (Porter himself recently revealed that …

On Friday, a Minnesota judge sentenced white former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to 22.5 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, the black, unarmed father of five whose neck Chauvin pressed his knee into for nine-and-a-half minutes on May 25, 2020. The killing sparked weeks of worldwide …

K-pop group Seventeen appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to showcase their recent single, “Ready to Love.” The song appears on their new EP, Your Choice, which dropped earlier this month. In the clip, the group’s 13 members gave a carefully choreographed rendition of the smooth-talking pop song, performing from a …

Modest Mouse appeared on The Tonight Show to perform recent single “We Are Between,” off the band’s upcoming seventh albumThe Golden Casket. In the clip, the band plays the track in a plant-filled space that has the vibe of a hip hotel lobby. Frontman Isaac Brock and his fellow musicians …

Olly Alexander’s musical project Years and Years has shared a cover of “The Edge of Glory” from Lady Gaga’s upcoming release, Born This Way Reimagined. Years and Years’ version of the Born This Way highlight is as propulsive and epic as the original. But Alexander does away with some of …