Taylor Swift performed at the annual iHeartRadio Wango Tango concert in Los Angeles and brought out surprise guest Brendon Urie for a live rendition of their single “Me!” “This is our last song,” Swift told the audience. “Will you please sing it the loudest out of everything tonight?” In the …

Creed frontman Scott Stapp is now sober and getting treatment for the depression and addictions that turned him into a rock-star pariah. His new song, “Face of the Sun,” embodies his new outlook. “You’ve got to stop the hating/The self-medicating,” he sings over a stabby hard-rock guitar riff. “It’s killing …

Toby Lingle was cremated in a 49ers cap, a Star Wars T-shirt and sunglasses shortly after his funeral at Highland Park Community Church in Casper, Wyoming. He was 43. The outfit was the daily wear for an aggressively coarse and casual man. Lingle was that guy, the one who told …

Beach Boys frontman Mike Love, ostensibly an authority on beaches, recorded a cover of Ramones “Rockaway Beach” for his upcoming solo album. The cover has more in common with the Beach Boys than the snarling punk original, thanks to big vocal harmonies and even a little Brian Wilson–style “ooh-ee-oooh” falsetto …

The 2020 Democratic presidential primary is shaping up to be an outsize field, with two dozen declared candidates in the running. On Tuesday, Jimmy Kimmel Live! unveiled a song to help voters remember them all. Kimmel’s jaunty piano singalong bounced through the names of all 24 major contenders, from party frontrunners …

According to a fact check by the Associated Press, President Trump and his Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie are purposely taking credit for improvements made to a veterans healthcare program that started under President Obama. At a rally in Pennsylvania last week, President Trump said, “We passed VA Choice …

After significant blowback from fans following the first trailer for the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie – and then a promise to change Sonic’s bizarre look before the movie’s immanent November 2019 release date – director Jeff Fowler took to Twitter once more to announce that the film’s release date …

Utah County Commissioner Nathan Ivie is a Republican. He is a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. And he’s gay. And he hopes that you will accept him as he is, for all three of those things. In an emotional video posted on his …

Megan Thee Stallion and her “thee hotties” female posse are out to take Ill Will Jackson down, “a known hater,” via a “fever that will never be forgotten” in the Houston rapper’s new Blaxploitation-flavored, Seventies-tipped video for “Realer.” The track appears on her 300 Entertainment debut LP, Fever, which dropped …

Beast Coast — the hip-hop collective featuring Flatbush Zombies, Pro Era (Joey Bada$$, Kirk Knight, Nyck Caution, CJ Fly, Powers Pleasant) and the Underachievers— tap into a reggae vibe with their laid-back new song “Snow in the Stadium.” Producer Erick The Architect weaves the numerous verses between his smooth R&B …