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Last week, five arrests were made in connection with the February 2020 death of Brooklyn rapper Pop Smoke. Today (July 13), the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has announced murder charges for four of the suspects: Two adult men, Corey Walker and Keandre Rodgers, have been charged with murder during a robbery and a
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Atlanta rapper Marlo has died, NBC News reports. The Quality Control MC, born Rudolph Johnson, was reportedly 27 years old, though Atlanta’s medical examiner reported he was 30. Police responded to a call for a car accident on Interstate 285 near the Benjamin E. Mays Drive overpass in downtown Atlanta early this morning and found
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The world of entertainment has lost a rising star. According to TMZ, Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough‘s son, Benjamin Keough, has died of an apparent suicide in Calabasas, Calif. He was only 27 years old. Law enforcement sources told the publication Benjamin appeared to have passed away due to “a self-inflicted gunshot wound” on Sunday. Of the heartbreaking news, Lisa
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Judy Dyble, singer and early member of British folk band Fairport Convention, has died from a long-term illness. She was 71. Born in London, Dyble formed her first band, Judy and the Folkmen, in 1964; they played exactly one gig. She joined a nascent Fairport Convention—commonly considered to be the first British folk-rock group—in 1967,
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Giancarlo Albanese, who attended a circuit party at Fire Island Pines, New York. (Screen captures via Instagram) An attendee of a July 4 Fire Island, US, party that saw beaches swell with hundreds of toned torsos, rarely wearing face coverings or abiding by social distancing rules, has spoken out amid stinging criticism. Giancarlo Albanese, a
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KAYTRANADA and New Orleans singer Lucky Daye have shared a new single called “Look Easy.” Listen below. KAYTRANADA released his sophomore album BUBBA last year. The album made the 2020 Polaris Music Prize Long List; the Short List gets announced on Wednesday, July 15. KAYTRANADA’s debut record 99.9% earned the producer the 2016 Polaris Music
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Of course, the lack of alcohol doesn’t hurt, either. “At the beginning, it was just about this vocal surgery,” the “Can’t Be Tamed” musician told Malkin about cutting back on alcohol and forgoing this year’s 4/20 celebration. But as she started looking into her parents’ pasts, the abandonment her mom felt as an adoptee, the struggles her dad
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Last month, it was announced that 30 Rock would make a one-off return to the air in July with an hour-long special episode. Now, a new trailer for that reunion episode has been announced, featuring returning cast members Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tracy Morgan, Jane Krakowski, and Jack McBrayer. The teaser begins with Fey’s character
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“Bring Music Home” is a new fundraising initiative co-founded by Amber Mundinger, Tamara Deike and Kevin Condon. Joining with photographers and creatives, BMH is capturing photos of shuttered venues across the United States and conducting interviews with venue owners, promoters, and bookers, in an effort to document how the COVID-19 has affected their businesses and
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A Boystown Chicago banner hangs along Cornelia Avenue in the Boystown Lakeview neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. (Raymond Boyd/Getty Images) In weeks to come, those half-drunkenly ordering taxis to Chicago’s queer neighbourhood won’t be typing in Boystown, but rather “Queerville”, “New Town”, or “Spectrumville”. Around 1,200 people have signed a Change.org petition calling for local leaders
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Little Rock, Arkansas doom metal quartet Pallbearer have announced their fourth studio LP: Forgotten Days is out October 23 via Nuclear Blast. The new album follows Pallbearer’s 2017 effort Heartless. Below, watch the Ben Meredith–directed music video for “Forgotten Days.” In a press release, singer/guitarist Brett Campbell said, “The video for ‘Forgotten Days’ tells the
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Charlize Theron is single and has no interest in mingling. For an interview with E!’s own Scott Tweedie, The Old Guard actress gave an update on her love life or, by her choice, lack thereof. “I really do believe that women really…make s–t happen for ourselves,” the 44-year-old Oscar winner exclusively told Scott. “And I
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Lockdown exposed the best aspects and worst flaws of humanity. That period of uncertainty and anxiety forced us to meditate on the obvious need to change the damaging systems we live by. By working with three experts, we’ve created a sonic and visual dialogue around these global, structural issues; taking the form of climate emergency, tax
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