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Halsey took off on her “Back to Badlands” tour in October 2025, traveling steadily through the fall and into the new year. The international tour...
In 2002, Green Day embarked on the “Pop Disaster Tour,” co-headlining with Blink-182. They were between studio albums at the time, with Warning...
Celebrity culture can be damaging for many reasons, especially for artists who often bare their souls in their music. Those people who don’t like...
Data doesn’t lie, and the data says U.S. listeners refused to let go of their favorite classic songs in 2025. Entertainment analytics company...
Bandcamp is once again showing its support for human artists in the age of AI as the first platform to completely ban AI-generated music. In a January...
If I were crafting a soundtrack for a series that wields longing like a weapon, these five songs would be must-haves. Some are strictly vibes-based,...
If I could plan three punk collabs and have them release split albums, disregarding things like time, disbandments, and death, I would pair some...
Since forming in 1982, the Red Hot Chili Peppers were easily categorized as L.A. stoner funk rock, and they didn’t do much to dissuade this...
Songs get banned from the radio for all kinds of reasons. Suggestive themes, saucy music videos, anti-monarchist sentiments, the list goes on. Here...
If you think you know David Byrne from just listening to Talking Heads, you’re missing out on an entire world of artistic expression that goes way...
We typically identify punk by its brash, in-your-face, sometimes unintelligible delivery. But when you really consider the lyrics, you’ll usually...
The charity organization War Child is stirring up the Arctic Monkeys fanbase, among several others, as they launched a new Instagram page called War...
Twenty One Pilots were on tour from August 2024 until October 2025 in support of their previous two albums, Clancy (May 2024) and Breach (September...
Nothing hits quite like a gem of an underground album that no one’s listened to in probably 30 years. While these albums might not have been huge...
Robyn is returning after almost ten years without a new album, announcing her next LP, Sexistential. The album is due out on March 27, and the pop...
On December 31, 2025, music lovers mourned as MTV officially shut down the last of its 24-hour music channels. Programs in Europe and the U.K. were...
When Deftones released their second album, Around the Fur, in 1997, the cover art gained a lot of attention. It’s a cool shot, using a unique angle...
There are certain things in life that remain indisputable facts: The sky is blue, there are 24 hours in a day, and beloved British rockstar Morrissey...
With Stranger Things wrapping up its final chapter on Netflix, the series has once again led to a new wave of fans discovering 80s classics. Since the...
You know Joe Keery as Steve Harrington on Stranger Things, but if you’re just learning about his solo music project Djo, we’ve got the Scoops Ahoy...
Social media is a nightmare for many reasons, but it’s been pretty handy for music discovery in the past several years. For example, TikTok is...
Depeche Mode first announced their epic concert film, M, in April 2025. At the time, they shared that they’d compiled footage from shows during...
For 78 consecutive days, Taylor Swift topped the Spotify Global Chart with her track “The Fate of Ophelia,” released on her 2025 album The Life of...
Depending on your demographic, Ashley Tisdale has many names. Sharpay, Maddie, and Candace. But since 2014, she’s been Ashley Tisdale-French, and in...
Since the release of her latest album, West End Girl, Lily Allen has reflected on the intense shake-up of her entire life. The album was revealing and...
As of December 31, 2025, MTV has closed the book on a defining era of music television. The music video giant has officially shut down its remaining...
Britney Spears was at the top of her game in 2000 when she released Oops…I Did It Again. If …Baby One More Time set her on the path to pop...
The Red Hot Chili Peppers started carving out a more popular space for themselves with the release of Blood Sugar Sex Magik in 1991. The band’s next...
In early February 1999, Britney Spears had been at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a week with “…Baby One More Time”. She was 17 years old...
In April 2018, Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins joined Sammy Hagar on his Rock and Roll Road Trip series for AXS TV. Gathered at a table in a diner, the...
Chappell Roan took the music industry by storm with her debut LP, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, and the subsequent single, “Good Luck,...
The Goo Goo Dolls are packing in the performances this New Year’s Eve. They’re managing to squeeze in a live appearance on Dick Clark’s New...
On December 30, 1946, Patti Smith was born, and she would go on to create a five-decade-long career that’s still going strong. She was at the...
With the end of the year just a day away, the internet has been flooded with Best Of lists from almost every major publication. Most of them say a lot...
After posting a tribute to Brigitte Bardot following her death in December 2025, Chappell Roan quickly backtracked. Roan initially noted that Bardot...
Wheatus is joining TikTok’s war on music on the side of music, as frontman Brendan B. Brown thinks the social media platform is contributing nothing...
The nature of an underground music scene is right in the name. Here are three crucial scenes that were overlooked by the mainstream. The post 3 Music...
The Austin, Texas-based cover band Jimmy Eat Brisket is doing what they do best for New Year's Eve: combining smoked meat and emo music. The post...
Kevin Parker of Tame Impala revealed that he searches for negative reviews, but also admitted that releasing music can feel 'violating.' The post Tame...
Duane Davis, who was charged in 2023 with Tupac Shakur's murder, is seeking to suppress evidence obtained in an 'unlawful' search. The post Man...
Some songs go viral because they're good, some go viral because they're bad, and others become culturally load-bearing memes. The post 3 Popular Songs...
Kurt Cobain wrote “Rape Me” around 1991, shortly before the release of Nirvana’s breakthrough album Nevermind. There were a few live...
Taylor Momsen has made a significant name for herself since 2009 as the vocalist for The Pretty Reckless, but for many people of a certain age,...
Jackie Vernon, voice of Frosty in the 1969 holiday classic Frosty the Snowman, may have been leading a double or even triple life, according to his...
Shane MacGowan, enigmatic yet troubled frontman of The Pogues, passed away in November 2023. Two years later, his sister says the grief is still close...
In December 2003, The Darkness dabbled in holiday tunes with the release of “Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End)”. The U.K. hard rock band...
The Pogues’ 1987 hit song “Fairytale of New York” makes the rounds again every holiday season. It’s a rowdy, bare-knuckle kind of song, ground...
Kylie Minogue celebrated the 10th anniversary of her holiday album Kylie Christmas with a “Fully Wrapped” reissue, earning her 11th No. 1 album on...
The American Heart Association has added to its hands-only CPR playlist. The playlist already features several songs between 100 and 120 beats per...
An extreme amount of metadata from Spotify’s music library has been scraped by pirate activists as of December 2025, according to a report from the...