Billboard’s First Stream serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond. This week,…
In his 2007 review of Cameron Crowe’s Elizabethtown, film critic Nathan Rubin gave birth to the Manic Pixie Dream Girl as we know her today. In describing Kirsten Dunst’s character, Rubin coined the trope of a fictional…
Following the surprise drop of Eminem's Music to Be Murdered By LP Friday (Jan. 17), fans were outraged by a reference to the 2017 concert bombing at Ariana Grande's concert in Manchester on the track "Unaccommodating." "But I'm…
When will James Corden ever learn? It seems like every time he gets all nostalgic for how music used to be, some huge pop star bum-rushes him with The Filharmonic to lay a vocal smackdown on the Late…
When Mac Miller passed away in September 2018 of an accidental drug overdose, his estate remained mum about the possibility of releasing music he'd stashed in the vault. It wasn't until Jan. 8 of this year that a message posted to…
After taking a summer off from ending the world in order to tour with Hootie & the Blowfish, Barenaked Ladies brings its Last Summer on Earth package back this year for a sixth edition, with Toad the…
Spurs-Pelicans moved to ESPN in anticipation of Zion’s NBA debut. ESPN’s NBA double-header for next Wednesday, January 22nd, was originally scheduled to conclude with a matchup between the Denver Nuggets and Houston Rockets. But that was before…
“Draymond don’t talk as much since he averaging that triple-single.” Charles Barkley doesn’t hold back when it comes to clowning today’s NBA players and that holds especially true when it comes to Golden State Warriors forward Draymond…
Stephen A. Smith wants to see West Coast Giannis. Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo still has two years left on his four-year, $100 million contract, but the Bucks will be able to offer him a staggering five-year, $247 million…
Roddy Ricch wants everyone to go stream Selena Gomez’ new album “Rare.” Could the same fate be awaiting another pop star this coming week? . . That didn’t end up working for him and now, is trying…
With 2 Chainz and Future serving as rap staples on the ATL hip-hop scene, you'd think they'd work together a lot more than they have in the past. Things changed when Hendrix and the Drench God connected…
When the 19-year-old Halsey uploaded “Ghost,” her debut single, to SoundCloud in early 2014, she “had no interest in being a singer.” The whole exercise was supposed to be a lark; it was the first song she’d ever…
Spoiler alert: he threw wife Emily Blunt under the bus. In addition to admitting that he's an adorkable dad on Wednesday's Ellen, Coldplay's Chris Martin revealed that he came up with a great idea for a sequel…
Despite Trump’s aides claims that A$AP Rocky never thanked them, Rocky said that he called the president personally after his Sweden incident. 2019 was an eventful year for A$AP Rocky, and the same can be said for…
Eminem’s new album “Music To Be Murdered By” continues his streak of controversial takes. At the wee hours of the morning, s. The project came at a surprise with no forewarning but as expected, the middle-aged rapper…