Author: Press Room

Journalists and some White House staff were aboard the legacy Air Force One that served as a “decoy,” according to The Washington Post President Donald Trump was secretly ferried away from Turkey last month and used a catering truck to covertly transfer him from Air Force One to a smaller plane amid an assassination threat from Iran, The Washington Post reported. The operation reportedly took place a night after Trump directed U.S. military strikes on Iran after failed negotiations between Washington and Tehran to end their war. Trump, who was in Ankara for a NATO summit and traveled to Turkey…

Tucker Pillsbury says he’s playing a character called Chuck Timely on his new album, and it’s not the first time he’s had an alter ego. To promote 2024’s Kansas Anymore, the singer usually known as Role Model maintained a second social media presence, a crass imposter named Saint Laurent Cowboy who described his record as “a dude who just blew your fucking back out” and said things like “if you see a guy wearing a wool sweater on this app singing Gracie Abrams, just know he’s manipulating you, and he’ll probably give you some sort of a UTI.” This caricature…

You could never accuse Citizen of stasis. The Midwest outfit’s sound has been called indie hardcore and soft grunge, but the group constantly adds new, off-kilter elements to its template. Their 2013 debut Youth, for example, was filled with jagged post-punk flourishes, and a decade later, Calling the Dogs featured high-energy indie-rock fusion. This versatility means Citizen can be tourmates with a straight-up pop-punk outfit like The Story So Far just as easily as they can feature on a track with New York hardcore bruisers Missing Link. On Halcyon Blues, the band’s sixth record, their latest evolution is one of…

Beneath the Last Dinner Parties and Wet Legs of U.K. indie rock lies a smaller, more earnest niche, one that’s both kinetic and deeply emotional. These artists have a lot in common with their aforementioned peers—though they often embrace an earnest attitude, rather than a fashionably arch one—and even if they aren’t equally famous, their songs sound enormous. Among the best of this category is Catherine Anne Davies, who performs as the Anchoress, mixing ’80s pop with the gritty ’90s rock of Richey Edwards-era Manic Street Preachers.Davies has breached containment, at least in her home country: Both 2016’s Confessions of a…

One of the Notorious B.I.G.’s former managers has won a legal battle against the late rapper’s widow, R&B singer Faith Evans, in the first of two lawsuits involving control of Biggie’s music empire and intellectual property. A Delaware Chancery Court judge has sided with manager Wayne Barrow in a new ruling, finding that Evans had no right to withhold payments owed to a trust established by Voletta Wallace, the mother of the music icon born Christopher Wallace. Barrow is the sole trustee of the trust and executor of Voletta’s estate. After Voletta died in February 2025 at age 78, Evans…

ZZ Top‘s longtime drummer, Frank Beard, has been facing health issues that led to the cancellation of their Hollywood Bowl concert last week, Rolling Stone has learned. A spokesperson for the band said that members Billy Gibbons and Elwood Francis will continue the tour with drummer Michael Monahan filling in for Beard. The update arrives just days after ZZ Top abruptly called off their show in Los Angeles. In a statement posted to the band’s social media, Gibbons said, “Insurmountable obstacles require canceling our Hollywood Bowl performance.” He added: “Friends, fans and followers of ZZ Top are the best in the…

Footage of Oasis performing in Scotland before the release of ‘Definitely Maybe’ has been made available to watch for the first time. The previously-unseen footage captures the Britpop legends performing at the Tramway in Glasgow on April 7 1994, before the release of their massive debut album later that year. For over three decades now, the video has been largely unseen, and was only made available when it went up for auction in August 2025, when fans clubbed together to buy it and make it available to the public. Together, fans came together with the Live4Ever forum bid, and spent…

Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny are both major superstars — and they’ve shared some parallels in their careers and discographies for several years. Now, they’re even using the same playbook to deal with taunts and baiting from Donald Trump‘s and the White House’s social media teams. Since Trump took office during his second term, he and his administration have been using social media as part of their communication strategy. The propaganda-like, rage-bait-style clips often lean into internet culture and use popular music to make light of Trump’s most egregious actions, like his immigration policy and war-hungry foreign policy. Olivia Rodrigo,…

Oasis fans have been sharing footage and memories as the band mark the 30th anniversary of their legendary Knebworth concerts. Today (August 10) marks 30 years since the band first played their 1996 super gigs, which sold out in under 24 hours and saw them welcome 250,000 fans across two nights. There were reportedly 2.6million people scrambling to get tickets for those 1996 shows – the equivalent of 5 per cent of the entire UK population – and the demand was so high that they could have sold out 20 nights at the venue. The band later released a live…

“Choosin’ Texas” claimed its seventeenth week at the top of the Hot 100, besting Wallen’s 2023 run for “Last Night” Ella Langley’s run with “Choosin’ Texas” doesn’t seem anywhere near slowing down, and this week, she’s even beating Morgan Wallen – whom she is opening for on select Still the Problem tour dates this year. “Choosin’ Texas” just claimed its seventeenth week at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, besting Wallen’s previous 16-week run for “Last Night” in 2023. Only Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” and Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas…