The Moon Person is flying to Jersey. On Thursday, MTV announced that their annual Video Music Awards will take place on Aug. 28 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, where the awards show was held in 2019. Last year, the VMAs took place in Brooklyn, New York, in …
Read More »2NE1 Reunite on Coachella's Main Stage
Hit-making South Korean girl group 2NE1 has officially reunited on the Coachella main stage for the first time since disbanding six years ago. Following a solo mini set by leader CL, the four members teamed up to perform their 2011 track “I Am the Best.” Speculation that there may be …
Read More »Idles Offers High Octane Pre-Coachella Performance of 'Crawl!' on 'Colbert'
Idles appeared on The Late Show ahead of their performance at Coachella to showcase their raucous, gritty single “Crawl!” Playing in close quarters on a venue stage, the U.K. group offered a high-energy rendition of the song. “Crawl!” appears on the band’s most recent album, Crawler, released in November via …
Read More »Bright Eyes Deploys Full Band for 'Dance and Sing' on 'Colbert'
Bright Eyes pulled out all the stops to deliver a full-band performance of “Dance and Sing” Wednesday on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. The track comes off the group’s 2020 album Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was, whichRolling Stonesaid reminds listeners why frontman Conor Oberst “was …
Read More »Tim Heidecker Taps Into Nineties Teen Nostalgia For New Album 'High School'
Hoping to get to the root of his unfinished business with his nineties teenagehood, Tim Heidecker is heading back to high school. The comic actor will release his latest retrospective solo album fittingly titled High School on June 24. The first stop on his journey to the past comes on …
Read More »Cardi B Returns to Twitter After Deleting Account During Grammy Night Fight With Fans
UPDATE (4/13): Ten days after suddenly deleting her account in the middle of the Grammys, Cardi B appeared to quietly reactivate her Twitter. At the time of this update, she still hasn’t posted anything new, but she did appear to scrub some of the tweets that preempted her full account …
Read More »Black Star, Duo of Yasiin Bey and Talib Kweli, Reunite for First Album in 24 Years, 'No Fear of Time'
Black Star, the acclaimed and long-dormant hip-hop super duo of Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) and Talib Kweli, have reunited for their first new album in nearly a quarter-century… but you’ll have to be a subscriber of the podcast network Luminary to hear it. On May 3, Black Star will …
Read More »Drakeo the Ruler's Brother Slams Grammys Over in Memoriam Snub: 'A Spit in the Face'
The brother of Drakeo the Ruler has slammed the Recording Academy for omitting the late rapper from its In Memoriam segment during the 2022 Grammys. The rapper, born Darrell Caldwell, was stabbed to death in December 2021 at the age of 28 following an altercation near Los Angeles’ Once Upon …
Read More »Red Light, Stop Signs: Olivia Rodrigo Revs Up the Grammys Engine With 'Drivers License'
Olivia Rodrigo made her Grammy Awards debut on Sunday, performing a chilling “Drivers License.” The superstar kicked off her hit sitting in a vintage white Mercedes Benz (“I still see your face in the white cars/Front yards”) wearing fishnet tights in a white dress. “Drivers License” just won Rodrigo a …
Read More »Wet Leg Haunt a Haughty Rock Dude's Paranoid Hallucinations in 'Ur Mom' Video
In the Napoleon Dynamite-inspired music video for their latest single “Ur Mom,” Wet Leg become the source of paranoid hallucinations for Scotty, the overly-opinionated frontman of Scotty and the Soft Boys. After inviting Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale to his gig (and insulting her in the process), Scotty takes a tumble …
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