The CDC’s Covid-19 community transmission map is a sea of red along the Missouri and Kansas border, while the percentage of fully vaccinated residents in both states remains under 45%. On Saturday, an expected 70,000 country music fans will gather at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, for a concert …
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Hot girl summer has been a long time coming. Back in August 2019, when Megan Thee Stallion released her collaborative single of the same name with Nicki Minaj and Ty Dolla $ign, the term had just started to go viral online thanks to a line in her Fever cut “Cash …
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“Honest to god,” says Dave Rawlings, “we could talk about this album for a week.” Rawlings and Gillian Welch would be the first to admit that it’s difficult to discuss their landmark third album Time (The Revelator) without launching into a thousand tangents. Every one of its 10 songs, every …
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Dua Lipa singing the words “You can’t say Pop without Smoke” was not on many 2021 bingo cards. Yet there it is on “Demeanor,” one of many posthumous collaborations on the slain Brooklyn rapper Pop Smoke’s second LP, Faith. Dua is the biggest surprise in the crowd of hip-hop heavyweights …
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A decade after being signed to a major label, Mickey Guyton will release her debut album in 2021. Titled Remember Her Name, the project follows Guyton’s 2020 Bridges EP and will be available via Capitol Nashville on September 24th. Remember Her Name spans 16 tracks and includes a handful of …
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A Tribe Called Quest has sold an NFT for royalties to their first five studio albums via Royalty Exchange. The sale closed for 40.191 ETH, the equivalent of $84,765. The sale, which started at $35,000, encompasses 1.5% of sound recording royalties from the group’s first five albums: The group’s 1990 …
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As resort manager Armond (Murray Bartlett) prepares to greet the latest VIPs at the Hawaiian hotel that gives the HBO miniseries The White Lotus its title, he explains to a new employee, “You don’t want to be too specific, as a presence, as an identity. You want to be more …
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Big Freedia has released a brand new dance single, “Betty Bussit,” in celebration of LGBTQ Pride. “This song was inspired by Betty Boop and Baby Esther (the cartoon character + performer),” the Queen of Bounce said of the track. “Those queens were the original Divas! They were curvy and sexy …
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President Biden and a group of bipartisan senators have agreed to a nearly $1 trillion infrastructure deal focused on improving bridges, roads, and broadband internet access across the country. “We have a deal,” Biden announced at a Thursday news conference outside the White House alongside a bipartisan group of senators …
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Brockhampton performed theirRoadrunner: New Light, New Machine deep cut “Don’t Shoot Up the Party” onThe Late Show With Stephen Colbert Wednesday night. The group opted to appear in a pretaped soundstage segment rather than perform live in front of an audience, as some artists are choosing to do now that …
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