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Michigan State Police are investigating after the body of a newborn was discovered inside a portable restroom on the campgrounds of the Electric Forest Festival in Rothbury, Michigan, over the weekend. According to authorities, the discovery was made Sunday morning, June 28, by an employee of the company contracted to... Read More »
Bob Dylan's already-shaken touring band has lost yet another guitarist, with Bob Britt, a member of the group since 2019, apparently departing just two weeks after fellow guitarist Doug Lancio left the tour unexpectedly and was replaced by jazz guitarist Julian Lage. The news of Britt's exit surfaced over the... Read More »
If Cannes Lions handed out an award for best party of the festival, this year's prize might well go to Canva. The all-in-one visual communication platform capped off a week of high-profile panels and conversations, which brought figures like Oprah Winfrey, Colin Jost, and Carmelo Anthony to the South of... Read More »
Less than two weeks after Oliver Tree died in a helicopter crash in Brazil at age 32, his family has formally launched a foundation designed to carry out one of his most personal final ambitions: funneling financial support directly to young, working artists. The organization, named Dr. Oliver Tree's Extremely... Read More »
AI music platform Suno announced Thursday the launch of "Spark," a new incubator initiative aimed at supporting independent artists through grants, mentorship, and distribution opportunities, marking the company's latest effort to position itself as a constructive partner to the music industry rather than a disruptive outside force. The program is... Read More »
Kane Parsons, the 20-year-old director behind A24's new psychological horror film Backrooms, is already looking ahead to expanding the unsettling world he's built on screen. In an interview with Rolling Stone UK, Parsons made clear that the film marks just one chapter in what he envisions as an ongoing creative... Read More »
Cher's long-running effort to secure court-ordered financial oversight of her son, musician Elijah Blue Allman, ran into fresh complications this week, as the musician appeared at a Los Angeles courtroom hearing via video link from a locked psychiatric facility in New Hampshire. Cher has spent years pushing for a conservatorship... Read More »
Vanilla Ice's planned performance at the controversy-plagued Freedom 250 celebration in the Washington, D.C. area was called off Friday, with organizers citing inclement weather just hours before the rapper was set to take the stage. The "Ice Ice Baby" performer had emerged as one of the few remaining headliners still... Read More »
The first trailer for Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning has arrived, and it offers an early glimpse at Jeremy Strong's portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg, a performance that immediately signals a darker, more hardened version of the tech mogul than audiences saw in The Social Network more than a decade ago.... Read More »
Thirty years after releasing their self-titled debut album, Placebo are revisiting the record that launched their career, though not in the way most bands typically mark a major anniversary. Rather than simply remastering the original tracks and repackaging them for fans to purchase again, Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal have... Read More »
New York City, already accustomed to navigating dense crowds in Midtown Manhattan, may be bracing for an entirely new kind of congestion as rumors continue to swirl that Taylor Swift's wedding to Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce will take place at Madison Square Garden. According to the police, officers... Read More »
Lionel Richie's opening night on his joint tour with Earth, Wind & Fire took an unexpected turn this week when the legendary singer was forced to cut his performance short after falling ill onstage. The incident occurred at the Grand Casino Arena in St. Paul, Minnesota, where Richie had to... Read More »
Max Martin, one of the most prolific hitmakers in modern pop music, has sold off a significant portion of his songwriting catalog in a major new deal. The Swedish producer, along with longtime collaborator Shellback, has reached an agreement with investment firm HarbourView Equity Partners that gives the company ownership... Read More »
Universal and DreamWorks have officially set a release date for "Donkey," an upcoming spinoff that pulls the franchise's most talkative and emotionally needy character out of Shrek's shadow and into his own feature film. The studio has scheduled the movie for theaters on June 30, 2028, giving fans a long... Read More »
Even after nearly three decades of pushing physical comedy to its absolute limits, the Jackass crew still has at least one stunt idea that never made it past the planning stage. Director Jeff Tremaine and frontman Johnny Knoxville recently opened up to Rolling Stone UK about the gag that got... Read More »