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Charli XCX made a surprise appearance during The Strokes‘ set at Outside Lands to play ‘Take It Or Leave It’ – watch below. The New York indie greats were headlining the festival at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park last night (August 8), one day after Charli topped the bill on the same stage. Midway through The Strokes’ set, frontman Julian Casablancas introduced their guest as a “superstar” and referenced the fact that they both released new albums on the same day last month and one record performed better than the other. “You’re the queen of album sales,” he told Charli (via San Francisco Chronicle). “She won – won by a lot. She’s a giant pop star…
Fans have vented their frustration after the Fugees‘ set was cut short at Lauryn Hill‘s Diaspora Calling! festival at Milton Keynes National Bowl. Hill and Wyclef Jean reunited for the event on Friday (August 7) alongside Erykah Badu, Giggs and Hill’s sons YG Marley and Zion Marley – also the grandchildren of reggae icon Bob Marley. But their set was cut short after they arrived onstage at 10pm BST and the venue was forced to end the concert early due to licensing restrictions which prevented it from continuing on past 11pm. The pair attempted to address the crowd but their microphones were switched…
On Saturday, Drake continued his ongoing forays into the world of content creators, hosting a stream on Kick, which is affiliated with Stake, the crypto gambling company Drake is partnered with, which saw the rapper, fresh off the release of three new albums, flirting with a goth streamer, gifting out birkins, and sending not so subtle warnings to the rest of the rap game, noting that his “pen isn’t dry.” The roughly three-hour broadcast marked the ninth anniversary of Stake, the online crypto casino that has sponsored Drake’s livestreams for years. The company announced the stream with an Instagram post…
Perez Hilton remains hospitalized in “serious but stable” condition, with the celebrity blogger requiring surgery, his family said in an update Saturday, four days after Hilton livestreamed a self-harm incident. “We want to confirm that Perez remains hospitalized under Florida’s Baker Act,” Hilton’s family posted Saturday on his official website. “Perez’s condition remains serious but stable. He experienced significant blood loss and sustained additional injuries that will require surgery in the coming days. His treatment and recovery will be a long process. We are grateful that Perez was able to spend time with his mother and sister yesterday.” Hilton’s family…
Tyga has confirmed that he used AI as a “tool” on his new album ‘$tarface’ and said he doesn’t care if some listeners object to it. The Californian rapper released his ninth studio album on July 31, with the record taking in influences from ’80s synthpop as the artist adopts his new $tarface persona. Some fans had speculated that some of the electronic sounds might have been made with AI, and now Tyga has confirmed those rumours in an interview with Vibe. “I’ve never spoken on this with anybody because I always felt like it’s similar to a magician explaining how he does his tricks,” Tyga said. “Like why are people overexplaining how they make…
Nearly 30 years ago, rap superstar Tupac Shakur was headed to an afterparty in Las Vegas when he was gunned down in a drive-by shooting, his unknown killers speeding away from the scene in a white Cadillac. This week, the man who police accuse of orchestrating the fatal hit will stand trial over his death. If convicted, it will put to rest one of hip-hop’s biggest unsolved murders. Jury selection for the criminal trial of Duane Keith Davis, aka Keffe D, begins Monday, with Nevada prosecutors planning to present evidence on how the South Side Compton Crips gang leader set…
“Maybe we bring back heartland rock,” Tucker Pillsbury, a.k.a. Role Model, muses on a new episode of the Rolling Stone Studio. Pillsbury is already well on his way: After getting Gen-Z to embrace Tom Petty vibes with his breakthrough single “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out,” he dove deeper into his roots on a strong new album, the just-released Chuck Timely and The Hourglass, nodding to the likes of Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, and John Mellencamp. “Bringing these artists that I love… and applying it to pop music is like a fun challenge,” he says. In the episode, Pillsbury talks…
A fleeting glance in the rearview mirror revealed John Carpenter‘s past catching up with him … literally. It was 2016 in Athens, Greece. Carpenter, the influential writer, director, and musician, had just finished a performance of eerie, keyboard-driven themes he’d composed for his movies Halloween, Escape From New York, and The Fog, as well as original darkwave instrumentals with his “band” — his son Cody and godson, Daniel Davies — when dull headlights cleaved through the darkness behind them along the roadway. The car gained on them steadily, eventually getting close enough to make out the model: an autumn-red 1958…
T he first time I meet Hasan Piker, he’s meant to be 5,000 miles away. “Dude, I’m supposed to be in London right now,” says Piker, the leftist political commentator and controversy magnet, sitting on the back patio of his Los Angeles townhouse. He’s dressed in his standard work uniform of blazer and tie, having just clocked out after another shift in the content mines, gabbing about news and politics for his 3 million followers on Twitch. “I genuinely did not expect this to happen,” he says. “It’s very shitty.” Months earlier, Piker had planned a trip to Britain that…
Fresh off their album sales battle — “She won. She won by a lot,” Julian Casablancas quipped — Friday night’s headliner at San Francisco fest makes surprise appearance during band’s Saturday set The Strokes brought out surprise guest Charli XCX to perform “Take It or Leave It” during the band’s headlining set Saturday at the Outside Lands festival. “We got a special little guest. A big guest. A superstar,” Julian Casablancas told the crowd before alluding to the fact that both artists released new albums — the Strokes’ Reality Awaits, Charli’s Music, Fashion, Film — on the same day in…
