A$AP Ferg recruits A$AP Rocky for his boisterous new single “Pups.” Throughout the track, the A$AP Mob members flex about “livin’ the dream” over a subtle wah-wah guitar loop and soulful humming. It’s about to get uglier than Balenciagas/Felt bad I never finished college,” Ferg rhymes on the track. “Now …

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign warned his supporters on Tuesday of scammers trying to pass their organizations off as authentically affiliated with the president. While the campaign didn’t call out any particular groups by name, the announcement came shortly publication of a report from the Campaign Legal Center and Axios that …

Tool performed two new songs, “Descending” and “Invincible,” live at Welcome to Rockville in Jacksonville. The tracks mark the band’s first new music in over a decade, although Tool debuted an instrumental rendition of “Descending” during a previous concert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peu3IzsYrSQ The songs, both fairly lengthy, likely come off Tool’s upcoming …

Beginning Tuesday, Keith Raniere, founder and leader of the self-empowerment group and alleged sex cult NXIVM, will stand trial for criminal charges including racketeering and sex trafficking, and faces life imprisonment if convicted on all counts. The details of the allegations against him are as well-publicized as they are horrific: …

A review of “Return of the King,” this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, coming up just as soon as I speak at a Canadian long-snapping convention… When sitcoms welcome back former cast regulars for a guest appearance, it generally goes one of two ways. In one version, everybody acts like the returning …

When initial reports of the college admissions scandal surfaced, most of the attention was focused on the big names involved (like a certain famous sitcom aunt and her influencer daughter, for instance), as well as the brand-name schools caught up in the controversy. Few zeroed in on the Zhaos, the …

Gov’t Mule will release a new live album and concert film, Bring On the Music – Live at the Capitol Theatre June 28th via Provogue/Mascot Label Group. The project comprises songs from two shows Gov’t Mule performed at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York April 27th and 28th, …

Mindy Kaling plays a bold but inexperienced comedy writer trying to revive a stale, culturally monochrome talk show in the hilarious new trailer for Late Night. The film hits Amazon Studios on June 7th. The clip opens with Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson), the “first female late-night talk show host on …

The Rolling Stones will reissue their famed Rock and Roll Circus concert as a massive multi-media box set June 7th via ABKCO. The Stones hosted the Rock and Roll Circus in December 1968, performing alongside an all-star lineup that also featured the Who, Yoko Ono, Jethro Tull, Taj Mahal, Marianne …

The radio industry is staggeringly uniform. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently reported that only 7% of FM stations are owned by women and less than 3% of FM licenses belong to minority broadcasters. Estimates suggest that the number of stations black-owned radio stations has been cut in half since …