One of 2025’s most stunning records arrived without fanfare last May. QUIET, the latest full-length album from Munich-based, German-American singer-songwriter Caro Kelley, is a soul-pop masterwork that deserves to be heard. Across eight impeccably crafted originals, Kelley reveals an artist who has fully come into her own: confident, boundless, and writing songs with the purpose…
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NEED TO KNOW A Des Moines news station helped set up a surprise proposal for one of its reporters Pepper Purpura believed she was covering an event at a garden in downtown Des Moines, but instead found her partner, Kai, holding a ring The outlet also shared a snap of Purpura’s ring — a black, marquis-cut…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. After first launching it in early testing with a limited number of users back in October, Meta has today announced that all U.S. users will now be able to access its “Your Algorithm” manual control option, which…
Florida Man Skin and T-Boned … Naked Runner Buffs Car in Intersection!!! Published December 11, 2025 8:42 AM PST Play video content A Florida man is getting the help he desperately needs … after a video of him getting hit by a car while running through traffic went viral. As you can see in the…
No CeilingsWallo267 is the wise elder that hip-hop has been clamoring for. Eight years after serving a 20-year prison sentence, the podcasting powerhouse is at the forefront of a wave that has positively changed the game.Interview: Joey EchevarriaEditor’s Note: This story appears in the Fall 2025 issue of XXL Magazine, on newsstands now and available for sale on…
Right now, there’s a lot of pop music that’s been scattered and refracted to hell and back. You know what I’m talking about — vocals fed through 19 layers of Auto-Tune, beats that sound like the vibrating thing inside a PS5 controller. That music is often interesting, but it rarely touches my soul. The Norwegian…
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong is a unique star, a bright constellation within the multiverse of jam bands. This Maryland-bred quartet fuses funk, rock, and electrifying showmanship into what they call “high-energy psychedelic funk.” Since forming in 2009 at the University of Maryland, they’ve built a devoted following through relentless touring (as many as 200 shows…
50 Cent‘s documentary gamble just paid off massively, threatening to reshape Netflix’s approach to Hip-Hop content. Sean Combs: The Reckoning didn’t just climb Netflix charts. It demolished them. The four-part documentary about Diddy knocked Stranger Things from its throne and claimed the #1 spot on the streaming giant. 50 Cent saw this coming from miles…
A series of uncredited King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard covers have been removed from Spotify after gaining traction through the platform’s algorithms and recommendation engines, Futurism reports. Apparently generated by artificial intelligence, the songs were uploaded to an artist page called King Lizard Wizard and appeared in users’ Release Radars before the platform took…
Can our culture trust the source of its poison to be the source of its medicine? (Illustration by Gremlin via Getty Images) “The key that makes this product different” — came the excited voice, riding the dual stimulants of artisanal coffee shop caffeine and San Francisco Bay ocean air — “is it’s about human-to-human interaction….
