When Jennifer Lopez first teased anew “musical experience,”it felt safe to assume her first studio album in nearly a decade was cause enough for the hype. Today, Lopez announced that her upcoming LP,This Is Me…Now, will be accompanied by a film inspired by the music. Both the film and album …
Read More »
In the spring of 2022, Ibram X. Kendi was recognized as one of the most banned authors in America. The National Book Award winner’s passionate reporting on the permeation of racist ideas throughout American history riled up conservative proponents, leading to three of Kendi’s tomes being banned in six school …
Read More »
Elvis and Priscilla Presley‘s relationship has been captured and recaptured in media for decades. Across its depictions, the story remains standard: he was the king, and she was his wife. In the first full-length trailer for Sofia Coppola‘s Priscilla, based on Priscilla Presley’s memoir “Elvis and Me,” Graceland is more …
Read More »
When Arlo Parks set out to make her second album, she wanted to make sure everyone knew that she was singing about her lived experiences, and no one else’s. “The first record was attributing a lot of things to characters and to people in my life,” says the British musician, …
Read More »
Rep. Liz Cheney indicated that Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, may receive a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee if she refuses to appear voluntarily. Records show that Thomas communicated with Trump allies about the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. “The …
Read More »
For many years, the music business seemed to think that Latin artists needed to follow a stereotypical crossover path to get global attention. Major acts, such as Bad Bunny and Maluma, debunked that idea by becoming undeniable stars without changing their sound or style to fit into the Anglo pop …
Read More »
It wasn’t until 2018 that Sister Rosetta Tharpe was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, acting as a much-needed if inadequate corrective of sorts to the lack of recognition the industry has given Black women. But we still have a long way to go. Yola — who …
Read More »
Kid Cudi is heading to the moon on his upcoming tour, kind of. The rapper’s newly announced To the Moon world tour unfortunately shares a name with an idiotic and unrelated crypto-bro phrase, so let’s just imagine that he’s getting a moon landing of his own. Scheduled for 27 cities …
Read More »
When the Elton John biopic Rocketman opened at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2019, expectations were sky-high. Just months earlier, Bohemian Rhapsody, another rock-music biopic, this one centered on Queen’s Freddie Mercury, had pulled off a surprise box-office coup, raking in $911 million worldwide. Paramount Pictures had taken a …
Read More »
“In some kind of way I became the villain,” Megan Thee Stallion tells Mankaprr Conteh in Rolling Stone‘s revealing new cover story. Megan is talking about some of the truly bizarre reaction to the shooting she endured in July 2020, allegedly by former friend Tory Lanez (who has denied shooting …
Read More »