“Started from the bottom [citation needed], now we here.” In the bitter cold of winter 2013, Drake once again retraced his rise. Even by millennial standards, the man has always been obsessed with his own story, his hero journey (or antihero journey) from a Canadian teen soap opera to the pinnacle of mainstream hip-hop. In […]
Jada Pinkett Smith Unearths Video Of Her & Tupac Shakur Dancing To DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
In the late ’80s, Tupac Shakur and Jada Pinkett, two teenage classmates at the Baltimore School For The Arts, became close friends. They remained close friends into the ’90s, when Pinkett became a movie star and Shakur became maybe the most dominant rapper of his era. In 1997, the year after Shakur was murdered, Pinkett […]
Neil Young Played Tonight’s The Night Songs For The First Time In 50 Years At Roxy Anniversary Show
In 1973, the big-deal music producer Lou Adler opened the Roxy Theatre, his club on the Sunset Strip. Neil Young and his band the Santa Monica Flyers playing the venue’s first three nights. Young had just finished recording Tonight’s The Night, the classic bad-vibes album that wouldn’t come out until 1975. Recordings from those Roxy […]
Blink-182 – “One More Time” & “More Than You Know”
Last year, the classic Blink-182 lineup got back together. Longtime co-leader Tom DeLonge, who split messily with the band in 2015, returned, and Blink announced a massive global arena tour, with Turnstile opening the whole American leg. Blink released the new single “Edging” and played their first show back together at Coachella, and it’s been […]
Nicki Minaj’s Husband Is Under House Arrest For Threatening Offset
Kenneth Petty, Nicki Minaj’s husband, has been ordered to serve 120 days of home detention for violating the terms of his probation. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Central District of California ordered Petty’s house arrest yesterday, after he “was recorded on video making threatening remarks to a specific individual while in the company of […]
Peso Pluma Cancels Tijuana Concert Following Cartel Death Threat
In the past year, the Mexican singer Peso Pluma has become a huge breakout star on the American charts, as the loose grouping of genres known as regional Mexican music has exploded in popularity. But success doesn’t always bring security, and now Peso Pluma has been forced to postpone or cancel a number of shows […]
Scream Drummer Kent Stax Dead At 61
Scream drummer Bennett Kent Stacks, aka Kent Stax, has died, as the band announced in an Instagram post. “Kent is the original heartbeat of Scream,” they wrote. “Though we have had to continue on without him before, we have always known Kent is irreplaceable. He was one of a kind. In addition to being a […]
Google Reveals 1989 (Taylor’s Version) Vault Tracks After Swifties Solve 33 Million Puzzles
For the past 20 or so hours, Taylor Swift fans have been in a puzzle-solving frenzy. Yesterday, Swift posted a cryptic message to her social media accounts referencing “Blank Space”: “You can tell me when the *search* is over… if the high was worth the pain.” It turned out that, ahead of the release of […]
The Story Behind Every Song On Chvrches’ Debut Album The Bones Of What You Believe
Like many who heard it at a pivotal point in their lives in 2013, Chvrches’ breakthrough debut The Bones Of What You Believe holds a striking place in time for me, but it’s lost none of its luster even as it turns 10 today. The synths and melodies still feel fresh and vibrant, the hooks […]
Sufjan Stevens Hospitalized With Guillain-Barré Syndrome: “I Woke Up One Morning And Couldn’t Walk”
Sufjan Stevens basically never posts on social media, but he’s chosen something important to share on Instagram today: Last month he was hospitalized due to complications from the autoimmune disorder Guillain-Barré Syndrome. “Last month I woke up one morning and couldn’t walk,” he writes. “My hands, arms and legs were numb and tingling and I […]