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Halsey, FKA Twigs, and Florence Welch have been vocal about TikTok marketing strategies getting in the way of releasing their art. By Grant Rindner May 25, 2022 Halsey arrives at the 2022 iHeartRadio music awards at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on March 22, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.Courtesy of Emma McIntyre via Getty Images.

Copyright law in the age of Web3. By Eileen Cartter May 25, 2022 Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images Pilot season is rough for everyone, especially when you are Seth Green’s Bored Ape Yacht Club #8398, which was slated to star in a series the actor was developing—until #8398 was “kidnapped” in a phishing scheme that cost Green

22 burning questions—and answers!—about the insanely lucrative, uniquely confusing, distressingly scammy, and quite possibly revolutionary world of non-fungible tokens. By Duncan Cooper and Jessica Klein May 26, 2022 1. So what is an NFT, anyway? In essence, an NFT, or non-fungible token, is just a record that someone owns something. That record lives on the

The “Shut Up” rapper is almost twenty episodes into his cooking show “I Got My Pots,” which features appearances from Rick Ross, Trina, Cee-Lo and more. By Grant Rindner May 27, 2022 Trick Daddy in I Got My Pots.Courtesy of YouTube. It’s been an up-and-down decade for Trick Daddy, one of the defining southern rap

The French period-piece film is haunting, visceral, and in today’s political context, a warning. By Callie Beusman May 27, 2022 Fabrizio Rongione and Anamaria Vartolomei in Happening.Courtesy of Wild Bunch via Everett Collection In Happening, a haunting, visceral drama directed by Audrey Diwan, a 23-year-old student, Anne, discovers she is pregnant. It’s the early 1960s,

A viral supercut of all the times Rogan said the word prompted the uproar. By Grant Rindner February 7, 2022 Joe Rogan performs during his appearance at The Ice House Comedy Club on April 17, 2019 in Pasadena, California.Courtesy of Michael S. Schwartz / Getty Images. Last week, it seemed like the drama surrounding Joe

For nearly two decades, the Gen X author has written about culture and music through a personal lens. In his new book The Nineties, he attempts to resist nostalgia while chronicling and analyzing what he thinks might be “the last decade.” By Will Leitch February 7, 2022 You know who these people are. (Photo by

Revisit the Atlanta rapper’s surprisingly rich back catalog on the occasion of his new album, Dope Don’t Sell Itself. By Grant Rindner February 4, 2022 Photograph courtesy Getty Images; Collage by Gabe Conte You could ask 20 rap fans what their favorite 2 Chainz lyric is, and chances are you’d get 20 different answers. Some

The internet darling has a new song with A$AP Rocky out today, and his long-awaited third album Ethereal out next week. By John Norris February 4, 2022 $NOT.Courtesy of Sam Cones. For a few days in early December, $NOT came home again. The rapper and singer has been one of hip-hop’s most exciting, charismatic and

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young reunite one more time, while Daniel Ek says Spotify is a platform, not a publisher.  By Grant Rindner February 3, 2022 Stills, Crosby, Nash and Young in 1974, before they all hated each other. Bettmann There continue to be ripple effects from Neil Young’s decision to leave Spotify over the streaming

Don’t try these at home. By William Goodman and Kevin Hall February 3, 2022 Photographs courtesy Everett Collection; Collage by Gabe Conte The Jackass boys have thrilled, grossed out, entertained, and split the sides of audiences since the aughts—a generation’s answer to the slapstick shenanigans of Buster Keaton. Now after a decade-plus hiatus, Johnny Knoxville,

Goldberg has been suspended for two weeks. By Grant Rindner February 2, 2022 Whoopi Goldberg co-hosts The View on Tuesday, September 14, 2021 on ABC.Courtesy of Jenny Anderson/ABC/Getty. Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from her role as co-host of The View after making inaccurate statements about the Holocaust that offended viewers and sparked online discussion.

He’s survived clown college, addiction, and more than 20 years of Jackass. But Steve-O’s gnarliest stunt might be figuring out what comes next. By Sam Schube Photography by Zamar Velez February 2, 2022 GQ Hype: It’s the big story of right now. Steve-O and I have been talking for a little while when he receives a

The couple broke the news in typically stylish [high] fashion. By Grant Rindner January 31, 2022 Rihanna and $SAP Rocky attend 2021 Costume Institute Benefit – In America: A Lexicon of Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 13, 2021 in New York City.Courtesy of Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Anything and

The rocker, who has been obsessed with authentic sound quality for decades, says Spotify’s is lacking. By Grant Rindner January 28, 2022 Neil Young in 2019, probably thinking about high-fidelity sound. (Photo by Gary Miller/Getty Images)Gary Miller Earlier this week, Neil Young gave Spotify an ultimatum in a letter posted to his website: “They can

According to director Matt Reeves, who compares the character to a drug addict. By Grant Rindner January 26, 2022 Warner Bros / Everett Collection Details of Matt Reeves’ upcoming take on The Batman are beginning to see the light of day. In an interview with Esquire UK, the director spoke about the specific comics that

After the rock legend said he would drop the platform if it continued to host Joe Rogan’s podcast, his music is being removed.  By Grant Rindner January 26, 2022 Neil Young attends a press conference for Farm Aid 34 at Alpine Valley Music Theatre on September 21, 2019 in East Troy, Wisconsin.Courtesy of Gary Miller/Getty.

With two freshly canceled TV shows, the filmmaker was having trouble navigating Hollywood. And then Steve Carrell told him about his idea built around a raunchy poker game. By Scott Meslow January 28, 2022 Seth Rogen, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, and Romany Malco in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, 2005.Everett Collection / Courtesy of Universal This is

She’s become the most fascinating character on the Netflix show. By Brian Tallerico January 27, 2022 Laura Linney in Ozark, 2022.Courtesy of Netflix When Wendy Byrde fled her Chicago suburb with her husband and two children at the start of Netflix’s Ozark in 2017, she couldn’t have known where the trip would take her. Over