Joe Rogan is putting a fresh spotlight on the Trump family’s growing financial footprint, and this time the conversation is centered on billions of dollars connected to cryptocurrency, private business… The post Joe Rogan Sounds Alarm Over Trump Family’s Billion-Dollar Crypto and Business Deals appeared first on .

“Townies” by Wednesday — that’s a good song. The best song of 2025, in fact. Townies, a Los Angeles-via-Boston emo band, tweeted shortly after the Bleeds release, “Wait til they hear Wednesday by Townies.” Now, they’ve finally delivered on that promise. The post Townies React To Wednesday’s “Townies” With New Song “Wednesday” appeared first on Stereogum.

The bleak, demoralizing Green Day movie Nimrods hits theaters tomorrow, but the premiere transpired on Wednesday (Aug. 12) at the Hollywood American Legion Post 43. Brian Bell was there and spontaneously offered an update on the Weezer movie, which we first learned about last year when Rivers Cuomo told the Coachella crowd. The post Weezer Movie Coming Next Year appeared …

Later this month, Penguin Random House will publish Nobody Broke Your Heart, a deeply sourced Elliott Smith biography by the journalist Jamie Fisher. It sounds like a great read, and it has yielded at least one unexpected twist for a longtime Smith fan. The post Elliott Smith Biographer Discovers His Unsent Response To A Teen’s Fan Letter appeared first on …

It turns out that even if you make a song as big as “Mr. Brightside,” you still succumb to feelings of competition with your peers. Brandon Flowers is not shy about this; in 2020, he told NME that he was grateful for Ezra Koenig because Vampire Weekend’s Father Of The Bride “helped to propel us into the right direction and …

Usher and Chris Brown are currently co-headlining a massive stadium tour, which has yielded lots of bizarre controversies, surprisingly all involving Usher and not Brown. Usher went viral for inviting a woman onstage in Nashville for some faux-flirtatious grinding and then dismissing her when she clearly wasn’t into the bit. He went viral again for allegedly sending a body double …

In a couple of weeks, Atlanta metal titans Mastodon will return with Marrow Deep, their first album since the sudden, recent death of former member Brent Hinds. We’ve already posted early singles “Your Ghost Again” and the Josh Homme collab “Snakes For Dinner,” and the album also has contributions from members of Gojira, Clutch, Converge, and Lamb Of God, as …

Oh, Tinashe is going for it. Next month the resurgent dance-pop/R&B cult hero will hit us with her new album Popstar, and early singles “Too Easy” and “Crash Out” are extremely encouraging. Today, Tinashe shares the all-out dancefloor blitz “Melatonin,” which is already my favorite of the Popstar singles. This thing goes so much harder than a song called “Melatonin” …

There’s this Oakland band called Unity, right? Not an easy name to search. When Scott assigned this post, I almost threw my laptop out the window. How am I supposed to know all this shit? I don’t. I never heard of Unity. Well, now I know about Unity, and I can tell you that they are good. I guess it …

Former boxer Prichard Colón has passed away at the age of 33, his family confirmed on Thursday, August 13th. The Puerto Rican, once a promising boxer, suffered a brain bleed following a 2015 fight against Terrel Williams. Colón went on to spend 221 days in a coma after repeated blows to the neck. After waking The post Puerto Rican Boxer …