The R&B veteran Kem hasn’t released a new album since 2014: He took time away to get married, have two kids, change management, and chase a life of domesticity rarely conducive to the rigors of being a working musician. After returning from that sort of hiatus, most singers would try …

Mariah Carey has dropped new song “Save the Day.” It appears on her upcoming The Rarities album, which collects the singer’s favorite songs from her vault spanning her 30-year career. The album arrives on October 2nd. The pop star began working on “Save the Day” with early collaborator Jermaine Dupri …

During the muggy last weeks of June 2019, Keith Raniere, the leader of the self-help organization NXIVM, sat in a downtown Brooklyn courthouse, owlish face peeking out from beneath a halo of pewter hair, looking like an overgrown prep-school boy in a jewel-toned crewneck, as prosecutors recounted a litany of …

This piece is part of our ongoing coverage of the 20th anniversary of Almost Famous. When Cameron Crowe’s 1996 film Jerry Maguire grossed more than $270 million and was nominated for five Oscars, the writer-director finally had the freedom to make his most personal film yet: a chronicle of his …

Elizabeth Warren discussed her upcoming speech at the Democratic National Convention and bridging the gap between the progressive and establishment wings of the party during an interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show Tuesday, August 18th. The highlight of the interview, however, arguably happened about a minute in when, …

Sheryl Crow performed her revamped version of “Woman in the White House” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Monday, August 17th. The country star — wearing a shirt emblazoned with the word “Vote” — was joined by her socially distant band as she breezed through the cut. Crow originally …

H e was almost home. In the early-morning hours of July 10th, 2016, Seth Rich walked alone across northwest Washington, D.C., making calls to his friends and family, thinking about his future. Like so many idealistic twentysomethings, he had moved to the nation’s capital after college to work in politics. …

Alicia Keys and Khalid celebrate freedom and “living the way I want” in their new music video for “So Done.” The single will feature on Keys’ upcoming album ALICIA, set for release this fall. In the visual, directed by Andy Hines, Keys and Khalid perform onstage at a high school …

Tom Morello will provide a pictorial history of his long career in music in Whatever It Takes, an upcoming photo memoir featuring previously unpublished ephemera and photographs from the guitarist’s own archives. “This is a book about a lifelong mission,” Morello said in a statement. “A mission that more often …

Beck and NASA have teamed up on a visual album that transforms the singer’s Hyperspace into a journey through the cosmos. Hyperspace: A.I. Experience pairs each track from Beck’s 2019 LP with space mission images curated by NASA’s artificial intelligence technology. “The realization of these Hyperspaces was executed by A.I. …