The man accused offiring multiple gunshots at Lil Wayne’s tour busin April 2015 had his conviction overturned Friday, just three years intoa 10-year prison sentence. After pleading guilty to the Atlanta highway drive-by shooting in November 2015, Jimmy Carlton Winfrey appealed his conviction in February, arguing that the judge overseeing …
Read More »Watch Smashing Pumpkins Confront Surreal Horrors in 'Solara' Video
The Smashing Pumpkins unveiled an utterly bizarre video for their new song “Solara.” The Nick Koenig-directed clip finds Billy Corgan being held captive in an otherworldly asylum. There, he receives dosages of trauma from an IV, watches other inmates play Connect Four with only black pieces and stumbles across a …
Read More »XXXTentacion Public Memorial Announced
The family of Jahseh “XXXTentacion” Onfroy announced that a public memorial and viewing for the rapper would be held on Wednesday in his native Broward County, Florida. “Fans come out and say your final goodbyes,” the rapper’s Instagram captioned next to the flyer for the memorial event, which takes place …
Read More »Charli XCX Is Having More Fun Than You This Summer
Summer is no time for a vacation when you’re Charli XCX. From now through late November, the U.K. singer is holding down one of the most coveted spots in pop as one of two opening acts on Taylor Swift’sReputationtour, alongside her friend Camila Cabello. “We’re such an interesting lineup of …
Read More »Hear All 77 Covers 'Weird Al' Played on 2018 Tour
Earlier this week, “Weird Al” Yankovic wrapped up his Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour after 77 shows across North America. It was unlike anything he’d done in his long career, setting aside nearly all of his famous parody songs (with the exception of a quick medley at the end) and …
Read More »Jeff Tweedy Plots Fall Tour
Wilco‘s Jeff Tweedy will embark on a North American solo tour this fall. The 11-date trek launches September 19th at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and includes stops around the Midwest, West Coast and western Canada. The trek wraps October 8th at the Theatre at Ace Hotel in Los …
Read More »Watch Arcade Fire's 'Carnivalesque' New Video for 'Chemistry'
A dog falls in love with a cat and fights a gang of sharp-dressed sharks in the imaginative video for Arcade Fire‘s “Chemistry,” the band’s latest Everything Now visual. In the Ray Tintori-directed video – which fuses animation courtesy of the studio behind Rick & Morty with flesh-and-blood actors – …
Read More »Fans to Celebrate Prince's 60th Birthday With Minnesota Festival
A group of Prince fans plan to celebrate the late icon’s 60th birthday with a three-day gathering in Henderson, Minnesota, near where scenes from Purple Rain were filmed. Minnesota resident Joel King, who served as a camera operator on Prince‘s Graffiti Bridge and several music videos, is co-organizing the event, …
Read More »Inside Kanye West's Wyoming Listening Party
“It’s great to be out here,” Chris Rock said on Thursday night at the Diamond Cross Ranch near Jackson Hole, Wyoming. “It’s beautiful – I was walking around, and I saw a moose. I went up and touched the moose, and the moose said to me, ‘Hey, there’s a lot …
Read More »Michael Jackson Estate Sues Disney Over Unauthorized ABC Special
The Estate of Michael Jackson filed a federal copyright infringement lawsuit against the Walt Disney Company and ABC TV, alleging the companies used dozens of copyrights without permission when the TV network aired The Last Days of Michael Jackson last week. The suit claims the two-hour, unauthorized special – which …
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