Youngboy Never Broke Again’s AI Youngboy 2 debuted at Number One on this week’s RS 200. AI Youngboy 2‘s first-week total was powered almost entirely by streaming: The rapper sold just 2,800 albums, but earned more than 143 million streams. While the K-Pop group SuperM beat out Summer Walker in …
Read More »State Department Clinton Email Probe Finds No 'Systemic Mishandling of Classified Information'
Despite breathless reporting and countless headlines throughout the 2016 campaign about Hillary Clinton‘s alleged mishandling of classified information through her use of a private email server, the State Department probe into the matter found no systemic mishandling of classified information by the former secretary of state’s staff. The unclassified report …
Read More »BTS Pay Homage to ARMY in 'Make It Right' Video
BTS pay homage to their passionate fanbase, known as ARMY, in their new music video for “Make It Right.” The clip combines footage of the group on their Love Yourself: Speak Yourself stadium tour — and their interactions with legions of fans around the globe — with an animated fantasy …
Read More »Rolling Stone, Showtime Plot New Tekashi 6ix9ine Docuseries 'SuperVillain'
Rolling Stone and Showtime are teaming for a new docuseries about controversial rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine titled SuperVillain. The three-part series will chronicle 6ix9ine’s remarkable rise from a New York City deli clerk to a viral sensation to a convicted criminal currently in prison on federal racketeering and weapons charges. SuperVillain …
Read More »Hear Animal Collective's Epic New Track 'Autumn Rites'
After releasing “Summer Blaze” in August, Animal Collective have shared the second track off their season-themed EP New Psycho Actives Vol. 2. The new song, “Autumn Rites,” clocks in at 21 minutes and was created by band members Avey Tare and Geologist. The song is a sprawling ambient number, pairing a …
Read More »The Biden Paradox
Listen to this story below: On a blistering afternoon in the courtyard of the East Las Vegas Community Center, former Vice President Joe Biden steps to the lectern. With white hair and aviator glasses, he looks like he wandered off the set of an Invisible Man remake. “How’s he going …
Read More »Watch Robert Downey Jr. Talk to Animals in First 'Dolittle' Trailer
Robert Downey Jr. communicates with the animal kingdom in the first trailer for Dolittle, the latest big-screen adaptation of the classic children’ book character. “I’ve been talking to animals for years now…And they finally started talking back,” the actor tweeted Sunday along with the trailer. “Does this mean I was …
Read More »See Families Separated by U.S. Border Reunite in Powerful '3 Minute Hug' Trailer
Netflix has unveiled the powerful trailer for the streaming service’s short film A 3 Minute Hug, which documents the brief reunification of families separated by the U.S. and Mexican border. “On May 12, 2018, the border between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was opened temporarily for a breathlessly …
Read More »Hear R.E.M.'s Gripping New Remix of Kurt Cobain Tribute 'Let Me In'
R.E.M. unveiled a raw new remix of “Let Me In,” the Monster track that paid tribute to Kurt Cobain just months after his suicide. The remix will appear on an upcoming 25th anniversary reissue of Monster, which boasts new mixes of every song on the record by original producer Scott …
Read More »'Looking for Alaska' Review: High-School Melodrama Done Right
Miles “Pudge” Halter (Charlie Plummer), the teen hero of Hulu’s Looking for Alaska, is obsessed with famous last words, like poet François Rabelais’ declaration, “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” But as he confesses to his new friends at an elite Alabama boarding school, he’s never actually read the …
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