Sabrina Carpenter is funny – funny on purpose. A lot of people have suddenly realized this at the same time. This isn’t news, though, to people who saw her steal scenes as a snarky tween in Disney’s sitcom Girl Meets World. (The character-actor-to-pop-girlie pipeline is real!) Nor is it news to people who’ve attended Carpenter’s […]
Watch Chris Hemsworth Play Drums For Ed Sheeran In Romania
Chris Hemsworth hosts a National Geographic series called Limitless, which is described as “an epic mission to discover how to live better for longer.” It’s executive produced by Darren Aronofsky, whose films don’t often involve living a good, long life. But I won’t hold that against Hemsworth. For an upcoming episode of the show, the […]
Watch Katy Perry Debut Three New Songs In LA
So far, Katy Perry has previewed her forthcoming album 143 with the much-hated lead single “Woman’s World” (but don’t worry; it’s satire!) and the virtually ignored follow-up “Lifetimes.” On Friday night, the pop artist debuted three new tracks during an intimate performance at Beaches Tropicana in West Hollywood. Perry’s nine-song setlist fit in her old […]
Chappell Roan Has More To Say About Boundaries With Fans: “Women Don’t Owe You Shit”
Earlier this week, Chappell Roan posted TikToks rebuking her fans’ invasive behavior. The rising pop sensation was met with some backlash, and on Friday she made an Instagram post clarifying her feelings. “For the past 10 years I’ve been going non-stop to build my project and it’s come to the point that I need to […]
City Of Olympia Declares Today Bikini Kill Day
The city of Olympia in Washington has declared today, August 23, “Bikini Kill Day,” in honor of the foundational riot grrrl band, which famously formed in 1990 with members Kathleen Hanna, Billy Karren, Kathi Wilcox, and Tobi Vail. (The current lineup includes Hanna, Wilcox, Vail, and touring guitarist Sara Landeau.) The honor is another feather […]
Thurston Moore – “The Diver”
Thurston Moore is set to release a new album, Flow Critical Lucidity, in September. We’ve already heard quite a few tracks from the Sonic Youth co-founder’s latest, including “Isadora,” “Hypnogram,” “Rewilding,” and “Sans Limites” featuring Stereolab’s Lætitia Sadier. Today, Moore is back with another album preview called “The Diver,” which features lyrics by Radieux Radio, […]
Doechii – “Boom Bap”
The wildly creative Florida singer and rapper Doechii signed with Top Dawg Entertainment a few years ago, and she scored a hit last year with the Trillville-interpolating Kodak Black collab “What It Is (Block Boy).” Since then, Doechii has released a handful of promising one-off singles like “Booty Drop,” “Pacer,” and “Alter Ego.” (She’s also […]
Sabrina Carpenter And Jenna Ortega Repeatedly Murder Each Other (And Share A Kiss) In Carpenter’s Gory “Taste” Video
After making a big splash this year with “Espresso” and “Please Please Please,” Sabrina Carpenter released her anticipated new album Short n’ Sweet today, which turns out to sound a lot more like “Please Please Please” than “Espresso” in general. (I love both songs, but the album’s strong resemblance to Kacey Musgraves is not a […]
Jaylen Brown Is Out Here Rapping With FERG
This year, the Boston Celtics won their first NBA championship since 2008, pretty much trouncing the Mavericks. Celtics star Jaylen Brown won the Finals MVP, but he wasn’t selected to play for the American Olympic team, and he says that he was passed over because of his longstanding beef with the Nike corporation. Now, he’s […]
Sabrina Carpenter Knows What She’s Doing On Short N’ Sweet
For what feels like the first time in a while, we’ve finally got some new pop stars really going off this year. One of them is Sabrina Carpenter. Technically, the 25-year-old Carpenter isn’t new. She was a Disney child star, and she’s on her fifth album. But Carpenter has had a series of huge breakout […]