Bieber season is not just approaching, it's here -- #1 hit or not. Thursday night at LA's Village Studios, Justin Bieber hosted a listening party for his new album with a guestlist including journalists, Def Jam employees, and other music industry people. Rolling Stone's report has some fascinating details.

A couple months ago, Fiona Apple did a rare and charming interview with Vulture. It seems she's struck up a friendship with its writer Rachel Handler because today Vulture has published another interview with Apple that serves as a quick catch-up with what Apple has been up to since September. Most pertinent is…

Saturday Night Live returns this weekend with the combination of Halsey and Adam Driver, and the show has just announced its schedule for the following two weeks. On 2/1, on the night before the Super Bowl, it'll be hosted by football player JJ Watts with country singer Luke Combs performing. And on 2/8,…

Justin Bieber wanted it bad -- or, at the very least, people within the Justin Bieber camp wanted it bad. (Bieber himself never seems to want anything except for the endless nightmare of his own fame to end, and he doesn't want that badly enough to stop making music.)…

The big news in pop music this week was supposed to be the triumphant return of Justin Bieber. Immediately the new year, timed so that it would hit just after all the Christmas music left the charts, Bieber released his new solo single "Yummy," a quasi-R&B song about horny marital bliss. Bieber has been a…