Earlier this year, it was rumored that Britney Spears sold a “tell-all memoir” to publishers Simon & Schuster for $15 million. In a recent Instagram post, Spears said that the memoir will be out at the end of this year. “I want to talk about secrets!!!” Spears wrote in the post. “The sec...

John Ringhofer is about to return with a new Half-Handed Cloud album. It’s called Flutterama, and it’s out at the end of June.

In the middle of March, Arcade Fire kicked off the rollout for their new album WE with the triumphant comeback single “The Lightning I, II.” Just two days later, founding member Will Butler — brother of frontman Win — announced he had left the band. After people had already noticed Will’s conspic...

On Monday afternoon, Arooj Aftab spoke alongside President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden at the White House celebration of Eid al-Fitr. (Eid al-Fitr is a Muslim holiday marking the end of Ramadan.) During her speaking portion, the Grammy-nominated performer, who was born in Pakistan, read “The Promise” by Rumi, a 13th-c...

In 2012, I was navigating my way through a labyrinth of aesthetic photographs on Tumblr. There were American Apparel tennis skirts, cigarettes dangling from faded lips, pink sunsets with a somber texture, neon signs glowing in the dark — all pieces making up a mosaic of glorified adolescence. As I got closer to the end of middle school...