As part of Jay Z's bid to own absolutely everything, he recently signed Canadian bleep-blooper/ professional vegan angerer Grimes to his Roc Nation imprint. Read More »
Cat Power (real name: Chan Marshall) released a version of the Christmas classic "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" in conjunction with a new Apple ad that features the track. Read More »
Ian Watkins, former frontman of Lostprophets, has been sentenced to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges that included attempted rape of an infant Read More »
Turns out that mini-documentary explaining Beyonce's reasoning behind dropping a surprise visual album was just the beginning. Bey dropped Part 2 (titled "Imperfection") to discuss the idea of losing and how she happened upon the speech from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie "while scrolling through videos of feminism on Youtube." Read More »
Lorde just continues to get better. While the teen Kiwi's smash debut Pure Heroine was full of hits and misses, her Hunger Games' contribution was on point and - if this preview snippet of new track "Hospitals" is any indication - she's definitely trending upward. Read More »
Beyonce has kept relatively quiet after the record-smashing surprise release of her "visual album" Beyonce. Apart from the mini-doc that explained her reasoning behind Beyonce's release and format, Third Ward Tril has been showcasing her iron grip on her public persona, not granting any interviews about the project Read More »
In light of the story from earlier today, it feels a little weird reporting on this. But it is R. Kelly and near Christmas, so here goes. Black Panties singer R. Kelly caught a fan recording him at a Harlem cigar bar, so he gave him what he wanted and then some. Kellz snatched the phone from the bar patron and recorded himself singing an off-the-cuff rendition of "The Christmas Song." Read More »
Pixies' Black Francis isn't doing the band's PR department any favors. After the ax-ing of bassist Kim Shattuck and her revelation that the band are all a bunch of downers, the band's lead vocalist decided to play the whole affair off. Read More »
Lady Gaga is the latest to get the Terry Richardson treatment. If you're curious what they look like, they look like photos taken by Terry Richardson, except Lady Gaga's in these and she has green hair. Read More »
BieWhen he's not busy infuriating small-town politicians, Justin Bieber occasionally makes music. The teenybopper's latest project Journals is due out on December 23 (pushed back from the 16th) and he dropped a few previews of the album's new material on his Instagram.ber Journals tracks Read More »
If you think couples are just the worst, you should probably skip right past this new music video from John Mayer and Katy Perry called "Who You Love." Read More »
One thing that hasn't received a lot of attention as R. Kelly rolled out his excellent new album Black Panties is the Pied Piper's disgusting alleged sexual past. Former Chicago Sun-Times music writer Jim DeRogatis (who broke the story of Kelly's infamous alleged predation of teenage girls) thinks that journalists have gone soft by not taking Kellz to task and allowing the public to forget his legal troubles. Read More »
Saturday Night Live is trying to address one of its more glaring issues (other than being generally not funny as of late) by bringing on a black female cast member. Maybe they'll even let her play roles that aren't Oprah/Michelle Obama/Beyonce! Read More »