Author: Press Room

One summer night this June, the Hollywood Bowl was glowing. Niko Rubio was onstage with Zuri Marley, standing beneath the amphitheater’s familiar sweep of lights, as she and Zuri performed their collaborative single “Ring Ring.” Ziggy Marley was headlining the show with Burning Spear, and the air was thick with the sound of harmonic lineage. “You don’t understand what this meant to me,” Rubio says, still sounding a little awestruck by the memory. It was exactly the type of music Rubio had spent years absorbing through headphones long before she knew what to do with it. She cried throughout the…

Olivia Rodrigo’s new music video for her “Expectations” remix with Chappell Roan is full of fun cameos, including David Byrne as a game-show host and producer Dan Nigro as a guy with a robot voice. But for fans of New York’s underground rock scene, there’s another surprise in store: Jake and Matt Derting, the identical siblings better known as the cool, scuzzy glam-punk/noise-pop duo Venus Twins, show up as part of Rodrigo’s team in a Family Feud-style contest about halfway through the video. When we reach them over Zoom the day after the video’s premiere, both brothers are still buzzing…

Timothy Busfield has had his child sexual abuse case dismissed, following a New Mexico judge’s determination that Albuquerque prosecutors acted improperly by failing to allow the grand jury to hear from more witnesses.  The 69-year-old actor made national headlines when he was arrested in January, accused of misconduct related to twin child actors he worked with on the Fox television series The Cleaning Lady. Although Busfield profusely denied the claims, calling them “horrible lies,” he was indicted by a grand jury on four counts of criminal sexual contact with a child the following month.  Busfield filed a motion to quash…

Has Zach Bryan always sounded this much like Hozier? The question’s unavoidable listening to “Lies,” Bryan’s weepy new piano-and-strings duet with Lana Del Rey. Fresh off an EP titled Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs, the song lines up a straight shot at “timeless,” then misfires into “dated.” I’m transported alright—far, far away from the Grand Ole Opry. No, I’m under the fluorescent LEDs of an H&M dressing room circa 2013, where “Take Me to Church” is playing back to back with “Same Love” and Rihanna’s “Stay.” Even worse: Most of Bryan’s lyrics are either borrowed wholesale (“Tell me your…

Poppy has announced details of her own Fortnite mini-game that’s set to go live next week (October 23). Poppy Secret Run is an “interactive musical journey” that takes place on hugely-popular online video game world of Fortnite. According to a press release, Poppy Secret Run transports fans inside Poppy’s world and allows them to experience a performance of ‘Empty Hands’-cut ‘Time Will Tell’ in “an entirely new” way with “exclusive content” available to unlock throughout the experience. The game is playable solo or in groups of four, and a concert-only version of Poppy Secret Run is also available, for those…

Selma Blair has issued her first statement since the actress’ incident aboard a flight, with a spokesperson for Blair saying that, contrary to reports, “Selma did not intend to harm anyone.” “Since Sunday night, the public account of what happened to Selma aboard a flight to New York has been built almost entirely on a police statement and a decade-old headline,” Blair’s rep said in a statement to People. On Sunday night, Blair was detained after allegedly assaulting multiple flight attendants and additional erratic behavior exhibited on an inbound Delta Airlines flight from Los Angeles International Airport to John F.…

Method Man listened to the Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin for the first time — and delivered his opinion on the now-infamous, one-copy-only album — on the latest episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out. For years, the story behind 2015’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin has overshadowed the music, which fans weren’t supposed to hear for 88 years: The brainchild of RZA and his protege Cilvaringz (who handled most of the production), the album, originally envisioned as a museum piece, was auctioned off for $2 million to “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli, who eventually lost ownership of…

How do you measure an implosion? Pounds per square inch? Microseconds? A head of lettuce? A Scaramucci? Well, White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia is on a run to shatter the scales.  Just a few days into her new gig as the chosen replacement for former Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Zacharia is already on the ropes after a series of embarrassing revelations and on-camera fumbles. In fact, she may be tapping out. Fox News reported on Friday that Zacharia is “transitioning out” of her job as press secretary, just days after her first briefing, citing a senior administration official. The…

The Colombian singer just wrapped her Viajando Por El Mundo Tropitour dates in North America Karol G has officially wrapped the momentous first leg of her Viajando Por El Mundo Tropitour. The Colombian singer closed the nearly three-month long stadium run in North America, where she sold more than 1 million tickets, in Arlington, Texas on Oct. 15. To celebrate the milestone, Karol shared the live music video for her smash hit “Bby Wow,” which features clips from her show at MetLife Stadium where she performed the track alongside the song’s featured artists Tainy, Judeline, and Rusowsky for the very…

The track, which the rapper first premiered onstage in 2022, arrives ahead of his Don’t Be Dumb “extension” Disc 2 Four years after A$AP Rocky first teased his song “Shroom Clouds,” the rapper has finally shared the track in its entirety. The finished version comes complete with guests Jeremih and Reggie, who both appear on the song produced by Sleeping Bear and Hector Delgado. In a new interview with the rapper, A$AP Rocky told Rolling Stone that “Shroom Clouds” would finally arrive on Friday as a bridge between his latest LP Don’t Be Dumb and what’s next, an “extension” of…