A selection of rare and unpublished photos of Tupac Shakur at the release party for his debut album are being released as non-fungible tokens. The 18 NFTs are being offered up by hip-hop journalist and photographer Lawrence “Loupy D” Dotson, and they’re being sold on the NFT platform, OpenSea. Seventeen …
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Viewed through one lens, last night’s Latin Grammy Awards were full of unexpected awards and upsets. The 79-year-old Brazilian trailblazer Caetano Veloso and 24-year-old son Tom Veloso won over emerging stars like Rauw Alejandro and Camilo for Record of the Year; Panamanian salsero Rubén Blades beat out Bad Bunny, Natalia …
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Puerto Rican singer Ozuna stepped out in a shiny silver jacket and moved through clouds of blue-tinted smoke that rose from the Latin Grammys stage during a performance that included his uptempo track “Del Mar.” He transitioned to “Señor Juez” as the background turned from a dim blue to rose …
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With 10 people dead — including a nine-year-old boy — and over 25 serious injuries, the crowd crush during Travis Scott‘s set at Nov. 5’s Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas stands as one of the worst concert tragedies in history. The new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now takes an …
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Pearl Jam has announced they will make up the 2020 North American tour dates postponed due to the pandemic next spring. Specific details are set to be revealed early next year, but the tour will kick off in May 2022. “For nearly two years, the band has wanted nothing more …
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Lil Nas X is getting ready to dish on Maury this Wednesday about the love triangle inspiration behind “That’s What I Want” — and he’s dropped a trailer spilling the details. The new clip opens with footage from the song’s video, which depicts the backstory of a very real love …
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Lawyers for former President Donald Trump wrote multiple memos advising ways to overturn the 2020 election. Two previously unreported memos, uncovered by ABC News’ Jonathan Karl, show how heavily the administration pressured then-Vice President Mike Pence to reject Biden’s victory. Reported for the first time in Karl’s upcoming book, Betrayal, …
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Welcome to the state of affairs in 2021’s MAGAfied GOP, where House Republicans who voted for a bipartisan infrastructure bill find themselves on the receiving end of death threats. “It’s amazing people want to kill me over paving roads and clean water,” Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.) recently told Buzzfeed News. …
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Once upon a time in Hollywood: People realized that people in movies would make people go to the movies. Not just anybody — certain people. People who had that thing, that indescribable quality that made film cameras love them and audiences love them even more. They settled on calling them …
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In January 2020, when veteran music executive Charlie Jones announced his departure from C3, the company he cofounded that runs Austin City Limits and Lollapalooza, he felt that part of his career had run its course. The market was saturated with similar festivals and “it felt to me like we …
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