It was San Francisco 49ers star Christian McCaffrey’s mother, Lisa McCaffrey, who started her own anti-Taylor Swift discourse around the 2025 Super Bowl back in February. At the time, Lisa told daughter-in-law Olivia Culpo that Swift — whose boyfriend is Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce — was “dead to us” during the lead-up to…
With heat above 100 degrees on opening day of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival this past weekend in Indio, California, it was inevitable that Alex Rodriguez would see a lot of extra customers in the Record Safari store he curates annually at the festival. The shop’s powerful air conditioning keeps everything nice and cool,…
Wink Martindale — best known as the host of multiple well-known game shows in the 1950s and ’70s — has died at age 91, his family confirmed to Deadline on Tuesday, April 15. Though the family did not provide a cause of death, they noted that the beloved game show host was “surrounded by family and…
Noah Kahan, Lucy Dacus and Doechii will headline the Washington, D.C.-area edition of the All Things Go festival, with the latter topping a festival bill for the first in her quickly exploding career. Comprising its maiden three-day program, the event will be held Sept. 26-28 at its usual home of Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia,…
“We’ve got a couple of dancers out there!” Kat Moss of Scowl is hovering over the front rows from a stage built along the perimeter of the ancient Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, but it’s not exactly clear if the singer is talking about a random couple swaying to her bright vocal melodies, or the circle…
Fender announced today that they’re releasing a new update on their popular Player II guitar line called the Player II Modified. This new guitars take some of the immensely popular Player II models and add upgrades to them that many owners would do to their own guitars, like the addition of noiseless pickups, locking tuners…
“It feels so surreal and just absolutely wild,” Warren tells me from her home in Austin, a framed print of Milton Glaser’s 1966 psychedelic profile portrait of Bob Dylan hanging on the wall behind her, referring to the imposter syndrome she constantly feels about getting signed by a major label and having her lifelong dream…
Janelle Monae, the Roots and Jacob Collier will headline the 71st edition of the Newport Jazz Festival, which will be held Aug. 1-3 at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, R.I. The event takes place the weekend after the Newport Folk Festival on the same grounds. Also set to appear on the Jazz bill, which…
Founded in 2023 by Andre Benz and Brandon De Oliveira, Broke Records is an independent record label, publisher, and distributor headquartered in New York City. The company was built with a clear mission: to support culturally relevant artists through digital marketing, sharp communication, and compelling storytelling. In an industry where major labels still dominate, Broke…
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard revel in a horn-dominant boogie rock motif on “Deadstick,” the second track to emerge from their 27th album, Phantom Island. The project will be released June 13 through the band’s own (p)doom records label and is a companion to last year’s Flight b741, with the material on both albums…
