BTS and Steve Aoki released their third collaboration, “Waste It on Me,” on Thursday. The instrumental lands somewhere between the big-drop electronic music that Aoki is known for, tropical pop circa 2015 and piano balladry, while the BTS boys sing disarming, why-not-me come-ons:“I know there’s no making this right/And I …
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UPDATE:Justin Timberlake hasannouncedhe is postponingthe remainder of his 2018 tour dates due to bruised vocal cords, per doctors orders. “My vocal cords are healing, but they are not all the way back to normal yet,” he wrote on Instagram, adding that his doctors have advised him to rest his voice …
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Polarizing is too tame a word to describe reactions to Luca Guadagnino’s radical rethinking of Suspiria. Either you’ll dig in or bolt for the exit — no in between. For starters, Dario Argento’s 1977 landmark of horror didn’t need a remake. The original, about an exclusively female dance academy run …
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Mean Girls‘ Janis Sarkisian lends a helping hand to a fellow outcast in the uplifting video for the song “I’d Rather Be Me.” Barrett Wilbert Weed, who portrays Janis in this video as well as the Broadway adaptation of the teen comedy, has been with the musical since it was …
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The rumors suggested that the bidding war for singer Dominic Fike was not like the others: Usually the major labels throw piles of cash at rappers, but Fike’s tracks are guitar-based, and believe it or not, could only be described as rock music. And while labels typically start to hurl …
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Every Friday, we’re recommending an older movie that’s available to stream or download and worth seeing again through the lens of our current moment. We’re calling the series “Revisiting Hours” — consider this Rolling Stone’s unofficial film club. This week: Matt Zoller Seitz on Albert Brooks‘ 1985 livin’-in-the-USA comedy of …
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A review of “Jeremy Bearimy,” this week’s The Good Place, coming up just as soon as I flout the one lollipop per customer rule… “How do we get out of this?” Michael asks Janet in this episode’s opening scene. In that moment, he is a stand-in for every TV character …
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On Wednesday’s Full Frontal, Samantha Bee accused the Republican Party of widespread voter suppression, highlighting states like North Dakota and Georgia, where controversial laws could stifle key demographics and ultimately swing elections for the GOP. “The vote hasn’t been this suppressed since Blake Shelton won [People‘s] ‘Sexiest Man Alive,’” the …
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St. Vincent performed her stripped-down rendition of “New York” during Jimmy Kimmel Live‘s Brooklyn residency Tuesday. The radical reworking of the track features on Annie Clark’s new album Masseducation, which reinterprets the songs off her 2017 LP Masseduction. While the original take of “New York” boasted strings, multi-tracked vocals and …
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Saturday Night Live mocked Kanye West and his epic White House rant for its latest episode’s cold open, which featured Alec Baldwin reprising the role of Donald Trump and SNL cast member Chris Redd as the rapper. “Kanye, I want to thank you for giving me a pair of your …
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