Charli XCX has announced her long-awaited third album,Charli. The LP will be released on September 13th and will precede a world tour. The 26-year-old pop star announcedCharlion Instagram, revealing the album cover and track list as well. She executive produced the 15-track album alongside frequent collaborator AG Cook. Like her …
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On Wednesday, Lady Gaga announced that her Born This Way Foundation and the National Council for Behavioral Health will expand the peer-to-peer mental health program, teen Mental Health First Aid (tMHFA), to 20 additional high schools across the U.S. starting in the fall. At one of her Las Vegas residency …
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Elvis Costello has been awarded an O.B.E. – the title of Officer of the Order of the British Empire – for his contributions to music as part of the annual Queen’s Birthday Honours List. “I am happy to accept this very surprising honour,” Costello wrote in a long statement Friday. …
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Guilt, grief, violence, drugs and a Dutch masterpiece fuel a young man’s remarkable odyssey in the trailer for the upcoming film adaptation of Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Goldfinch. Directed by Brooklyn filmmaker John Crowley, The Goldfinch stars Ansel Elgort as Theo Decker, who, at 13 years old, watches …
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Madonna has staged many of the most successful arena tours in the history of live music, so it was no small surprise earlier this month when she announced that her upcoming Madame X tour would exclusively hit theaters. Every single tour she’s ever done back to 1985’s The Virgin Tour …
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“A daywillcome when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenlyyour joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you’ll know the debt is paid.” When Tyrion Lannister said this to his sister Cersei years ago, he couldn’t have known how right he was. Game of Thrones‘ penultimate episode …
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John William King, 44, a white supremacist who brutally murdered a black man named James Byrd, Jr. in a 1998 hate crime that horrified the nation, was executed on Wednesday night in Texas via lethal injection. When asked if he had any last words, King reportedly said “no” before receiving …
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Pink recaptures the flame of young love on her new song with the electronic trio Cash Cash, “Can We Pretend.” The song will appear on Pink’s upcoming album, Hurts 2B Human, out April 26th via RCA Records. “Can We Pretend” boasts a euphoric EDM pop beat filled with thumping drums …
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When folk-singer Dom Flemons began delving into the cultural history of African-Americans in the West a few years ago, he conceived the subject as a quirky passion project. “At first it was just casual research,” he says. “But when I found out one in four cowboys in the West were …
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Apple unveiled its much-hyped video-streaming product on stage at the Steve Jobs Theater on Monday morning, introducing dozens of original, star-studded TV and film projects with it. At the Cupertino, California media event — which Apple named “Show Time” and touted with an all-out marketing campaign complete with trailers and …
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