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What is a B-side to a band as delightfully peculiar as Pixies? What happens when you flip over the group who influenced a whole generation of young punks with their loud-quiet-loud aesthetic while surfing their own boldly idiosyncratic gamma wave?Consider Complete B-Sides: 1988-97, originally released in 2001 and now getting a remaster as part of the band’s 40th anniversary celebrations. On its evidence, the Pixies B-side is a place for dazzling tunes, ferocious power, tender emotion, vocal interplay, topsy-turvy songwriting, and the odd cover version—not unlike the band’s classic albums, really, although the tiniest bit freer, with the deviance cranked…
A federal judge in Los Angeles has dismissed a $27 million defamation lawsuit brought against the comedian Learnmore Jonasi by Lebohang Morake, the South African singer and composer professionally known as Lebo M. Morake’s Zulu chant opens “Circle of Life” in Disney’s The Lion King. The ruling, issued Friday, threw out the suit that Morake filed in March. Bryan Sullivan, a lawyer for Jonasi, called the decision a vindication of his client’s right to free speech. “We have always believed this was a frivolous lawsuit in violation of our client’s First Amendment rights,” Sullivan tells Rolling Stone. He says the…
Bad Bunny’s former girlfriend may proceed with a lawsuit accusing the reggaeton star of using a recording of her voice saying “Bad Bunny baby” on his 2022 song “Dos Mil 16” without her permission. In an 80-page ruling obtained by Rolling Stone, the Puerto Rico Supreme Court found that Carliz De La Cruz Hernández can move forward with her claim that the recording’s use violated her right to protect her identity from commercial exploitation. Bad Bunny, born Benito Martinez Ocasio, has been fighting the lawsuit since it was first filed in 2023. In her filings, De La Cruz Hernández says…
For the past five weeks, a large portion of America's TV-viewing public has been held hostage nightly by the reality-television dating show Love Island USA. Yes, you heard that right. Every night since June 2, barring Wednesdays, fans have tuned in to watch sequestered twentysomethings explore their romantic chemistry, kiss each other in challenges, and parrot the word “connection” while lounging around in swimwear. For the constantly in-flux group — whose members can be voted off both by fellow contestants and by viewers of the show — the goal is to find a compatible partner and end up as America's…
Pitbull set a Guinness World Record in London on Friday for the “largest gathering of people wearing bald caps.” The rapper, along with some 22,141 fans who showed up at Hyde Park in bald caps, set the record at the BST Festival where Pitbull headlined. “I'm speechless. Who would have thought a first-generation Cuban would be record-breaking and record-making?” Pitbull said when accepting the award, for The Guardian. While Pitbull is bald, he donned a bald cap himself. As Will Munford, an official adjudicator for Guinness World Records told the outlet, Pitbull had “to wear a bald cap to be…
Bonnie Tyler she is dead. The British singer, protagonist of the international pop and rock scene for over five decades, passed away on 8 July 2026 at the age of 75 in a hospital in Faro, Portugal, the country where she had lived for years. She had been hospitalized since last May, after an emergency operation and a long period in intensive care. The announcement came from the family with a statement published on the singer's official website. Throughout his career Bonnie Tyler he released 20 albums and brought numerous singles to the charts in the UK and many other…
The update comes after the superstar and her husband, Travis Kelce, faced criticism for their Fourth of July wedding Zohran Mamdani is setting the record straight when it comes to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce‘s massive wedding at Madison Square Garden. On Friday, July 10, the New York Mayor informed reporters that the superstar had spent six figures to obtain a permit from the city to shutdown streets around the Midtown venue. “Taylor Swift has paid already the cost of the permit that was lodged, which was over $160,000 for that event and for the response to that event,” Mamdani said…
Singer was expected to have a “very tiny” role in what would have been her reunion with Scream Queens producer Ryan Murphy Ariana Grande’s reunion with Ryan Murphy has been put on hold as the singer was forced to withdraw from her role on the upcoming season of American Horror Story due to her tour schedule. Back on Halloween 2025, Grande revealed that she was among the cast of AHS’ 13th season, her first time appearing on the series; she previously teamed with Murphy for 2015’s Scream Queens. However, a new teaser for Season 13 premiered recently, and while much…
In partnership with Bilbao BBK Live 2026. Paris Paloma used her stage at Bilbao BBK Live 2026 to urge the audience to stay away from AI and to support human artists. Playing the San Miguel stage on the first day of the festival, the indie-folk singer-songwriter preceded recent single ‘Miyazaki’ with a heartfelt proclamation to her sizable crowd. “This next song I wrote about how much I value human artists and how much I hate AI art. If you value art and you want to support artists, don’t fucking use AI because it sucks,” she declared before performing the track,…
Fiona Apple is largely out of the public eye these days, but the singer-songwriter gave a rare update in a new video, expressing her thoughts on the state of the world. “It's the middle of the night and I was just writing and I couldn't sleep,” Apple says in the video. “And I just all the sudden got overtaken with this urge to reach out. You haven't seen me in a while, because this kind of thing, I'm just really, really uncomfortable with it nowadays.” The video was uploaded by Zelda Hallman, Apple's roommate and best friend. “She's been trying…
