The Trump campaign denied a report that K-pop fans and TikTok users were to blame for the president’s sparsely attended rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Despite Trump’s claims that over 1 million people had requested tickets for his June 20th rally amid a pandemic, the president’s speech at the BOK Arena …

The Fiery Furnaces have returned with their new song “Down at the So and So on Somewhere,” Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger’s first track together in 11 years. The brother-sister duo previously teased their musical reunion — including a gig at the Pitchfork Music Festival, since canceled due to COVID-19 — …

With many of the country’s independent concert venues in limbo — having been without business since March because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic — over 600 major recording artists, including Dave Grohl, Neil Young, Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Robert Plant, Willie Nelson, and Coldplay, have signed a letter to Congress …

AJR have shared a cover of Fountains of Wayne’s “Hackensack” in honor of frontman Adam Schlesinger, who died in April from complications related to COVID-19. “Fountains of Wayne have been one of our biggest inspirations as a band,” AJR said. “With a song like ‘Hackensack,’ to be able to write …

Lou Barlow will commemorate the 15th anniversary of Emoh with a reissue, slated for July 31st via Merge Records. The solo album — which the Dinosaur Jr. bassist and Sebadoh frontman released in January 2005 — will be released as a double LP with eight demos. The vinyl marks the …

Katy Perry and the Black Eyed Peas are set to headline Rock the Vote’s first event of its Democracy Summer campaign for 2020: a two-hour virtual concert taking place on Thursday, June 18th beginning at 8:00 p.m. ET, on democracysummer.org and Democracy Summer’s Facebook and YouTube pages. Co-hosted by Logan …

In this week’s quarantine episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast,Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined once again by Shahid Buttar, the San Francisco attorney and community organizer who is running against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Our hosts break down Congressional Democrats kneeling for 8 minutes and 46 seconds while wearing African …

Rob Huebel may be an actor-comedian, but his role on HBO’s I Know This Much Is True — in which he plays Mark Ruffalo’s best friend Leo — is pretty serious. “It’s not funny at all,” he notes in the latest installment of “The First Time.” “It is so awesome …

In 2017, when Chance the Rapper walked triumphantly onto the stage at the Grammys to accept his award as that year’s Best New Artist, he was wearing a tab baseball cap emblazoned with the number “3” — a reference to how many full-length projects he’d released. Last year, Lizzo was …

Drake is back on top of the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart for the week of May 29th through June 4th. Last week, Gunna took Number One, but Toronto’s very own bounced back this week with 123.7 million total song streams. That tally was bolstered primarily by Drake’s latest single, …