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Airport horror stories are becoming increasingly ubiquitous. Today, Salt-N-Pepa’s Pepa, real name Sandra Denton, lived one of her own. According to TMZ, the rapper was on a Southwest Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Nashville for a meeting, and ended up being removed and deemed a safety risk.  » Read More

Remember that time Lil Xan was hospitalized for eating too many Flamin’ Hot Cheetos? The emo rapper is now being one-upped by the viral folk-pop artist Noah Kahan, who was hospitalized for eating too many sunflower seeds when he was 23.  » Read More

As you may have heard, Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt Saturday, when a gunman’s bullet grazed his ear during a campaign rally in Butler, PA. The incident led to an expected explosion of discourse, including lots of statements condemning the shooter from both sides of the political aisle and an inevitable flood of memes (e.g.  » Read More

The Sphere has announced its first non-rock performance, and it won’t be by Beyoncé.  » Read More

Getting into Metallica’s 1991 self-titled LP, aka the Black Album, is a rite of passage for any young heavy metal fan. It’s been so popular for so long, in fact, that it has now joined an elite club of albums with impossibly lengthy runs on the Billboard 200. As Blabbermouth points out,  » Read More

Young Thug and members of his YSL organization have been on trial for racketeering since November, and there’s no end in sight. As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, Judge Ural Glanville has been recused from the case after protests from the defense.  » Read More

Sony Music, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group have filed a joint lawsuit against Verizon, alleging the internet service provider of facilitating “massive copyright infringement committed by tens of thousands of its subscribers.”  » Read More

Last year, we named Worlds Worst one of the Best New Bands of the year thanks to their gripping self-titled debut. The Salt Lake City grungy indie rock crew is back with “Motor Mouth” today.  » Read More

The Sudanese Canadian artist worked on his full-length with Rodaidh McDonald, Simon Hessman, Nicolás Jaar, the National’s Aaron Dessner, and others  » Read More