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Jessie Ware has shared a new single from Superbloom. “Ride,” the track she premiered at a Glastonbury club in 2024, comes with a simple, sultry video, which you can watch below. The track interpolates ...

For the folks who missed Lee Brice’s performance at the Turning Point USA All-American Super Bowl LX Halftime Show, there are a few things the world learned about him. He just wants to catch fish and ...

After black midi’s split, all eyes went to frontman Geordie Greep and his eclectic impulses. I won’t knock Greep’s bag—his solo debut did splashy, head-spinning things—but I’ve always been more ...

Papa Johns is feeling extra saucy. The national pizza chain has set a far-fetched goal for itself: to become the first pizza establishment to earn a Michelin star. While there are 70 pizzerias listed ...

Bay County residents attend a candlelight vigil at Carl Grey Park in Panama City, Fla., Jan. 11, 2026, for individuals and families whose lives have been harmed by immigration enforcement, aka ICE.

Thundercat again pays tribute to his late friend Mac Miller on “She Knows Too Much,” the latest song to emerge from his upcoming Brainfeeder album, Distracted. The song is accompanied by a ...

U2 released a seething protest song, and Lana Del Rey put out a dreamy ode to her home life. By Jon Pareles The shootings of Americans by federal forces in Minneapolis have brought rapid-response ...

Lana Del Rey‘s new album that’s currently called Stove (that was first called Lasso and then called The Right Person Will Stay) and that’s allegedly her “country album” has been delayed once ...

Lana Del Rey has shared “White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter,” a new song off her forthcoming album Stove. The track was written by Del Rey alongside her husband Jeremy Dufrene, sister Chuck Grant, ...

Irish rock band U2 invoked Renee Nicole Good — the anti-ICE agitator gunned down by federal agents in Minnesota last month — in their new song “American Obituary,” while calling for a “rise against ...