Family Matters alum Darius McCrary has been released from jail two months after his arrest near the U.S.-Mexico border. “Over the last four years, Mr. McCrary’s fight for justice and truth has been painted as an attempt to shirk his responsibilities to his child,” the former child actor’s public defender, Paulette Loftin, said in a…
Last year David Byrne advocated for the Music Fairness Act, a bill that would require radio stations to license musicians’ songs for airplay so they could get compensated. Today Gene Simmons testified before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee to support the bill. “When you work hard and you get to the top, what do you got?…
Gym Class Heroes’ Travie McCoy is the guest on the newest installment of the Lipps Service podcast, speaking with host Scott Lipps about the group’s in-progress new album with Asa Taccone of Electric Guest, growing up in Geneva, N.Y., time spent on the Vans Warped Tour and being mentored by Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz. McCoy also…
Ja Rule threatened legal action against 50 Cent after the rapper posted a controversial video to his 36 million Instagram followers involving a salacious story about Ja and Diddy in a hotel room. The post featured a clip from The Art of Dialogue, in which Diddy’s former bodyguard, Gene Deal, recounted an incident in North…
PinkPantheress will run back her An Evening with PinkPantheress tour next year. The fresh batch of dates—supporting her acclaimed 2025 mixtape Fancy That? and its remixed sequel—kick off in Mexico City in April before heading to the States for Coachella. A full list of stops is below. Read: The 50 Best Songs of 2025 PinkPantheress:…
Image Credit: Anna Kooris Vince Gilligan created a whole Emmy-worthy television world thanks to Breaking Bad and its spinoff, Better Call Saul. But his latest series, Pluribus, is streaming on another platform that’s not AMC — and this one introduces viewers to an extraterrestrial plot in a post-apocalyptic world. The series, which premiered in November…
TikTok has published its listing of the most used songs, and most popular artists, based on TikTok engagement in 2025, with all those earworm, meme soundtrack tunes making an appearance in the top lists. Yes, they’re all here, Taylor Swift, Doechii, KATSEYE, and more. Though the number one track on TikTok in 2025 was a…
Amsterdam-based Turkish psych purveyors Altin Gün mine the catalog Anatolian legend Neşet Ertaş for the source material on their new album, Garip, which will be released Feb. 20 through ATO Records. Ertaş penned hundreds of songs and recorded more than 30 albums from 1957 onwards and is revered for updating the ashik folk tradition for…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Was Kim Kardashian wrong to call out Howard Stern? On last week’s The Kardashians episode, Kim recalled the horrors of her 2016 robbery in Paris. Emerging from that harrowing ordeal only to have people accuse her of staging a hoax for publicity compounded her trauma. But her callout of Stern invited…
For years, George Hirsch and David Walling were in the great Philadelphia hardcore band Blacklisted together. Blacklisted broke up in 2015, and they’ve played a few reunion shows recently. Hirsch and Walling’s new band Staticlone recently released their absolutely sick full-length debut Better Living Through Static Vision. Now, Hirsch and Walling have another new band…
