Spotify‘s fourth quarter of 2018 saw the10-year-old Swedish music-streaming company posting an operating profit for the first time, adding 9 million premium subscribers, expanding into 13 new markets and positioning itself to be something much bigger than just a music service. The company posted its fourth-quarter earnings (pdf) before the …

Black Leopard, Red Wolf 620 pages Riverhead Books They call him Tracker, a “hunter known by no other name” who, for the right price, will find anyone you need found. His reputation as a pitiless, brutal man proceeds him; his nose, it’s been whispered, would put a dozen bloodhounds to …

Maroon 5 delivered a surprise-free set with a plethora of career-spanning hits including “This Love,” “Girls Like You,” “Sugar” and “Moves Like Jagger” during theSuper Bowl LIII Halftime Show. The Red Pill Blues band kicked off the show with singer Adam Levine leading a melodic performance of the Songs About …

Not long after Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam immolated what was left of his political career, I got the Reverend Dr. William Barber on the phone. The fiery civil rights leader, known for founding the Moral Mondays movementand for revivingRev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign, did not focus …

San Carlos, California, 1977: After his father abandons the family, gay teenager James Oseland moves to the San Francisco suburb with his shattered mother. He dodges bullies in AC/DC t-shirts, anxiously grinds his teeth and finds comfort in Joni Mitchell, whose voice “sounded smoky and world-weary as she sang that …

Enemies from The Fast & The Furious franchise unite to save the world in the explosive first trailer for Hobbs & Shaw, a spinoff of the action series starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Jason Statham. Brutal adversaries in Furious 7and reluctant allies in The Fate of the Furious, the …

Lil Peep enjoyed a devoted following on SoundCloud and YouTube during his lifetime, but he was not the type of artist whose music was beamed out to millions over the radio. That all changed with “Falling Down,” a posthumously released collaboration with XXXTentacion. This single was not just a radio …

Garth Brooks will make two appearances during the 2019 Country Radio Seminar in Nashville, including a rare, solo acoustic performance at the city’s Bridgestone Arena. Taking place on Wednesday, February 13th, the one-man show promises to be an intimate-yet-massive affair reminiscent of Brooks’ 2008 – 2014 Las Vegas theatre residency, …

Jerrod Niemann has announced plans to play a few headlining shows in 2019. The “Old Glory” singer revealed dates for a spring tour, dubbed Live in Concert: Jerrod Niemann Tallboys and Short Stories, on Tuesday. The trek launches March 15th in Kansas City, Missouri, and stretches through mid-May with several …

Paul Simon discussed revisiting and revising old songs for his new album, Into the Blue Light, and performed two tracks from that album on The Late Show Monday. In an interview with Stephen Colbert, Simon said that, in making the album, he wanted to focus on deep cuts that hadn’t …