James Corden is an apparent fan of the summer bop. So much so that the late night host challenged John Legend to a riff-off that put the summer bop up against the summer ballad during a segment on The Late Late Show. “Whenever I turn the radio on now all …
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BTS has joined forces with UNICEF in a campaign to promote kindness and end bullying in schools. The Korean pop band appears in a two and a half minute video for UNICEF’s #ENDviolence. In the clip, titled “BTS 💜 show the power of love and kindness,” the band members use …
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It’s difficult to fathom how much misery one has to have in their heart to hate Big Sean. Hating on rappers is often a beautiful and cathartic exercise, but part of the fair exchange should be rooted in said rapper being oblivious or obnoxious enough to warrant vitriol. It’s what …
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Red Hearse — the new trio of Bleachers frontman Jack Antonoff, singer Sam Dew and producer Sounwave — created an intimate setting befitting the confessional, romantic vibe of their new single, “Half Love,” during their performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Monday. The track is expected to appear …
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Drake retained the Number One spot on Rolling Stone‘s Artists 500 chart with 101.6 million song streams, while Post Malone leapt three spots to land at Number Two with 86.9 million song streams for the week of July 5th through July 11th. Drake’s continued dominance was once again driven by …
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Y2k and bbno$’s juvenile, onomatopoeic single “Lalala” is Number One on this week’s Trending 25 chart, thanks to 118% growth in audio streams. The song has become massively popular on the video app TikTok, where three different snippets of “Lalala” have been used over 900,000 times combined.Interest on the app …
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Norwegian avant-pop artist Jenny Hval released a new song on Wednesday, titled “Ashes to Ashes.” It is the lead single off her upcoming seventh studio album, The Practice of Love, due out September 13th on Sacred Bones Records. In comparison to its sinister 2016 precursor, Blood Bitch —fantastical thesis on …
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João Gilberto, the pioneering Brazilian musician and composer credited as “the father of bossa nova,” has died at the age of 88. Gilberto’s son João Marcelo Gilberto confirmed his father’s death Saturday in Rio de Janeiro in a Facebook post, “His struggle was noble. He tried to maintain his dignity …
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Twenty-four years and a day after releasing their self-titled debut album on July 4th, 1995, Foo Fighters have dropped a surprise live EP. “A good day to look in the Foo Files,” the band announced on Twitter. “How about a few elusive live tracks?” Mysteriously titled 00950025 — possibly alluding …
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Miley Cyrus shared a bold new ode to the body in the video for “Mother’s Daughter,” a song off her latest EP, She Is Coming. Cyrus conceptualized the clip with director, Alexandre Moors, and the video splices footage of the pop star performing “Mother’s Daughter” with cheeky images that celebrate …
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