We Are So Lucky That Vampire Weekend Are Back
A decade ago, I gave a couple hundred dollars to a guy from Craigslist to see Vampire Weekend in a tiny, legendary venue in downtown Toronto. I was in my third year of university at the time, obsessed...
View ArticleMcNo, McDrake McDidn’t McTip McDonald’s McEmployees Mc$20,000
Kanye West contributed a poem to Frank Ocean’s Blonde 2016 tie-in magazine Boys Don’t Cry called “The McDonald’s Man,” where he wrote, “McDonalds, damn / Them french fries look good tho / I knew the...
View ArticleLil Peep, ILoveMakonnen, and Fall Out Boy Made a Beautiful Pop Song
Yesterday, a teaser of a new song surfaced on Lil Peep's Instagram page indicating fans of the late rapper would be receiving new music shortly. An excerpt from XXL's The Breaks interview was posted...
View ArticleDive Into ‘Kingdom Hearts’ With Skrillex and Hikaru Utada’s "Face My Fears"
This week, Square Enix and Disney released the much-anticipated video game Kingdom Hearts III, the 13-years-in-the-making follow-up to, you guessed it, Kingdom Hearts II. If you own the game, the...
View ArticleGunna's Still Dripping On His New Song "One Call"
Gunna's back with new music—even though to be fair, he never really left. After appearing on just about everyone's song in 2018 (Think: Travis Scott, Future, and Mariah Carey), the Atlanta rapper is...
View ArticleAriana Grande's 2 Chainz-Featuring "7 Rings" Remix Squashes Some Pre-Beef
Ariana Grande is sitting atop the Billboard Hot 100 right now with "7 Rings," a smoldering pop-rap single that's nowhere near as aesthetically interesting as her blissfully euphoric last hit,...
View ArticleHow Pete Wentz Ended Up on a Lil Peep and ILoveMakonnen Collab
Sampling everyone from The Postal Service to blink-182 in his music and citing bands like Good Charlotte and Fall Out Boy as influences in tweets and interviews, Lil Peep was a true mid-00s emo kid –...
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An Elaborate Theory About What Happened When Travis Scott Fell in That Hole
While performing with Drake at a sold-out show in London on February 1, 2017, Travis Scott marched across the stage, took a wrong step, fell into a giant hole, and disappeared completely. Drake looked...
View ArticleReport: 6ix9ine Has Pleaded Guilty to Nine Criminal Counts
Brooklyn rapper 6ix9ine has pleaded guilty to nine counts in his criminal case, according to court documents unsealed today and seen by NBC4 New York. 6ix9ine, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, was...
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I Can't Stop Thinking About This Giant 'Astroworld' Baby Head
Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott celebrated their daughter, Stormi's first birthday over the weekend with an Astroworld-themed party. In typical Kardashian fashion, it was an over-the-top affair complete...
View ArticleAriana Grande's 'thank u, next' Is a Real "Small Charcoal Grill" of an Album
Ariana Grande is so famous, everything she does makes headlines. When she mistakenly (?) got the words “small charcoal grill,” instead of “7 Rings,” inked on her palm in Japanese last month, the...
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Netflix’s ’Sex Education’ Balances Story and Soundtrack Beautifully
I first heard about sex through a fat little kid called John. The perennial Eurodance anthem “Sex On The Beach” had recently come out and, probably to provoke the teachers, he wouldn’t stop singing it....
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Panda Bear Made an Album to Impress His Kids and It Didn't Work
Getting older offers some pitfalls for an experimentally minded musician. Touring starts to feel more like an unsustainable energy drain. Life responsibilities start to encroach on the disposable...
View ArticleRyan Adams Accused of Manipulation and Abuse in New Report
A report in the New York Times compiles the stories of a number of women who accuse the songwriter Ryan Adams of a pattern of abuse and manipulation stretching back years. Seven women, including...
View ArticleReport: New Video of R. Kelly Allegedly Having Sex With Minor Emerges
A new video recording involving a naked man who appears to be R. Kelly and what appears to be an underage girl has surfaced, according to a report from CNN. The VHS tape was submitted to Chicago's Cook...
View ArticleParis Hilton Took a 100-Year-Old World War II Vet to a Lil Pump Performance
In 2019, it seems like every day brings another incomprehensible and unbelievable headline. It’s likely a confluence of a lot of things like click-driven media saturation, the resurgence of scammers,...
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Uffie May Be Back, But She'll Never Stop Evolving
If you were anywhere near a LimeWire-ravaged family desktop in 2006, chances are you’ll be familiar with the name Uffie. One of the original MySpace queens, her electronic-pop-rap ragers “Pop the...
View Article21 Savage Speaks Out in His First Interview Since His ICE Detainment
On Wednesday, 21 Savage was released from the South Georgia ICE detention center after being held for nine days. In an interview with Good Morning America, the Atlanta rapper gives his first interview...
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Panda Bear Lovingly Ranks His Solo Catalog
In Rank Your Records, we talk to artists who have amassed substantial discographies over the years and ask them to rate their releases in order of personal preference. When Noah Lennox was a teenager,...
View Article21 Savage Details His Upbringing and Detainment in New Interview
On Feb. 13 21 Savage was released on bond from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody where he was held in a Georgia detention center for nine days. The rapper born She-yaa Bin...
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