Hip-Hop doesn’t hand out grace periods. Time away from the mic is usually treated like exile, and comebacks often arrive soaked in nostalgia rather than relevance. That’s what makes Malice’s return so remarkable. With Let God Sort Em Out, Malice doesn’t sound like an artist trying to reclaim a past throne. He sounds like an MC who…
Pink is sharing a glimpse into how she marked the beginning of 2026 — in a hospital bed. “I want to say Happy New Year’s to everyone. I am so happy to say goodbye to the snake year and welcome in the horse,” she wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, December 31, alongside a selfie taken…
LA shoegazers Luster popped up with two new songs on consecutive days last April, which made us think they might be building toward some kind of larger release. Instead, their Bandcamp has remained silent until today. Luster have kicked off 2026 with a new single called “Don’t Need You.” It’s an uptempo track that, due…
Chappell Roan, Mariah Carey, Post Malone, and dozens more performed televised sets last night (December 31) during Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest to help ring in 2026. Moments before the ball dropped in New York City’s Times Square, Roan sang “The Subway” live in Kansas City, Carey performed a medley including…
Of all the pops of color you could add to your outfit, red is arguably the most timeless. And in 2026, you’re going to see a lot of the bold, daring hue. Rather than monochromatic head-to-toe looks, fashion is instead embracing the color through subtle or unexpected pops of red. This means it’s easier than…
Uncle Murda kicked off 2025 the only way he knows how: by calling out everybody in Hip-Hop with his annual “Rap Up” roast, and this year’s 17-minute track is packed with more smoke than a Snoop Dogg tour bus. From Young Thug allegedly talking to cops to Diddy getting dragged over that Netflix doc and…
Reading Time: 2 minutes JoJo Siwa is ringing in the new year… with a new name. On December 31, not long before the calendar turned to 2026, the Dance Moms alum took fans and followers by surprise when she swapped out her nickname in her TikTok bio for her full birth name: Joelle Siwa. That…
WARNING: The following post includes spoilers for the Stranger Things series finale. In the Netflix retro fantasy show’s penultimate episode, which premiered on Christmas, Mike (Finn Wolfhard) constructed a bomb to blow up the dark realm known as the Upside Down that would be triggered by a vinyl record. Mike’s choice of album for the…
Horror Show is a new series uncovering the stories of artists’ experiences with the supernatural, paranormal, and unexplained—and how surviving it provided new appreciation for creating in the here and now. For many generations, the family of filmmakers Ximena and Eduardo García Lecuona has experienced a long-running phenomenon: When it’s your time to leave this…
In December of 1991, I was asked to do a photoshoot with Henry Rollins for SPIN. The majority, if not all, the photos I had seen of Henry had presented that intensity and punk-like rage he was known for. I planned to capture images that went beyond that facade while remaining true to the Rollins…
