Bin Reaper 2, the latest album from Michigan rapper BabyTron, opens with a sample from Harry Potter. On the project’s intro, aptly titled “Half-Blood Prince,” the 21-year-old MC is firmly in his lane, delivering head-spinning bars jam-packed with pop culture references. “Scooby-Doo, hopping out the van, gon’ leave a mystery,” …
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Billie Eilish stopped by Sesame Street to perform a new rendition of “Happier Than Ever” with the Count ahead of the show’s 52nd season premiering on Nov. 11. Eilish’s full episode doesn’t air until June 16. Perched on the front steps of a building, the 19-year-old singer croons: “When I’m …
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On the latest episode of The Howard Stern Show, the radio personality tore into Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers for his hesitancy to get vaccinated. Rodgers recently contracted the virus after informing reporters that he had been “immunized.” “If there was decency in this world, I would throw this …
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After a week of rumors that Ed Sheeran would have to forgo his Saturday Night Live performance after recently testing positive for Covid-19, the English singer-songwriter returned to Studio 8H with two songs from his new album, =. Sheeran told Howard Stern there was never a question he would make …
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Five years after the death of modern troubadour Leonard Cohen, director Daniel Askill is out with a haunting video for “Puppets,” off Cohen’s 2019 posthumous album, Thanks for the Dance. Shot in black and white, the video follows a lonely figure kitted out like Cohen — played by actor Bobbi …
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Benedict Cumberbatch stars as a ruthless ranch owner in the new trailer for The Power of the Dog, the Jane Campion-directed Western that heads to theaters this month before its arrival on Netflix on Dec. 1. Taking place on the Montana frontier in 1925, the film stars Cumberbatch and Jesse …
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Arca has dropped a music video for that comprises “Prada” and “Rakata,” two songs from her upcoming album, Kick ii. The LP arrives Dec. 3 via XL Recordings. The video is a collaboration with 3D artist Frederik Heyman. “”Prada’ is about celebrating psychosexual versatility; a song explicitly about transness and …
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Glenn Youngkin has spent the weeks leading up to Tuesday’s Virginia gubernatorial election distancing himself from Donald Trump, as well as the idea that the 2020 election was rigged. Youngkin has, anyway. His campaign surrogates are not. State Senator Amanda Chase, perhaps Virginia’s most vehement election fraud conspiracy theorist, has …
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Jay-Z and a lawyer for the fragrance company Parlux continued to spar in court on Monday over whether or not the rapper fulfilled his obligations around Jay-Z Gold perfume. There was hardly a single issue on which lawyer Anthony Viola and Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, could find …
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J ust last year, the four thirtysomethings behind Bored Ape Yacht Club — a collection of 10,000 NFTs, which house cartoon primates and unlock the virtual world they live in — were living modest lifestyles and working day jobs as they fiddled with creative projects on the side. Now, they’re …
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