BTS will release their seventh LP, Map of the Soul: Persona, on April 12th via Big Hit Entertainment. The South Korean boy band’s latest album follows a stream of 2018 releases: the Korean-language Love Yourself: Tear and compilation set Love Yourself: Answer and the Japanese-language Face Yourself. The chart-topping former …
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The death of Prodigy singer Keith Flint has been ruled a suicide as a result of hanging, the BBC reports. A coroner revealed the cause of death to an inquest in Essex, England Monday. A toxicology report is still in the works and a full hearing is scheduled to take …
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At the SIR Studio in West Hollywood Monday night, a panel discussion of punk-rock icons devolved into filth and fury — what better way to honor the Epix network’s new docuseries, Punk, which premieres on March 11th? At the heart of the disruption was John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten). The …
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Slipknot announced that they will release their new album on August 9th alongside plans to tour North America this summer. The 29-city Knotfest Roadshow will start July 26th at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California and wrap September 8th at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion at the Woodlands, Texas. …
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The catalog of rap legends De La Soul is set to hit streaming services after decades absent from any digital marketplace. The release will conclude a long-running dispute between De La and their label, Tommy Boy Records, and the attending legal complications that kept their fans from accessing their music …
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Linkin Park‘s Mike Shinoda unveiled two new songs, “Prove You Wrong” and “What the Words Meant.” Both tracks appear on the new deluxe edition of Shinoda’s solo debut, Post Traumatic. “Prove You Wrong” finds Shinoda alternately spitting and singing as the song deftly moves between a stomping verse and a …
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After the New York Times published a report alleging Ryan Adams’ long history of emotional abuse, manipulation and the harassment of at least seven women — including sexually explicit communication with a minor (charges that Adams has denied) — a co-worker pointed out a lyric that Adams had changed when …
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Skip Groff, a Washington, D.C. record store owner who produced and championed the city’s seminal hardcore punk acts, has died at the age of 70. Groff’s wife Kellyconfirmed to WTOP that the owner of D.C.’s Yesterday & Today suffered a seizure Monday and died at a nearby hospital. Dischord Records’ …
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Ariana Grande easily captured Number One, her second trip atop the Billboard 200 in six months, as the singer’s Thank U, Next opened with 360,000 total copies, the best sales of Grande’s career. Of the 360,000 haul, 116,000 came from traditional album sales, with 228,000 courtesy of streaming equivalent albums …
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Three world-class athletes — skateboarder Tony Hawk, snowboarder Shaun White and surfer Kelly Slater — hitch a ride together in the latest episode of Apple’s Carpool Karaoke, and in this exclusive clip from the episode, Slater and Hawk give White pointers on how to croon like Pearl Jam singer Eddie …
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