Yesterday, Keir Starmer became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in a sweeping, historic election that ended 14 years of Conservative party rule. The UK’s various third parties made big gains, while Labour won more than 410 Parliamentary seats — a total apocalypse for the extremely unpopular Tories. But one Labour politici...

Mike Skinner brought his long-running project the Streets back last year to released the album The Darker The Shadow, The Brighter The Light, and now he’s getting ready to release a new DJ mix for Fabric, the London dance club and label. The Streets’ Fabric Presents mix is full of music that Skinner has made under various dif...

50 Cent was on Capitol Hill with attorney Ben Crump Wednesday to promote Black ownership within the luxury spirits industry. “I got a chance to meet with both sides today, and it feels really good,” he told reporters. “They don’t agree on a lot of stuff. And so to get them to agree on seeing me was an acco...

None of the members of MC5, the rabble-rousing Detroit proto-punk legends, are with us anymore. MC5 only released three albums, and they broke up after the release of 1971’s High Time. In recent years, guitarist Wayne Kramer and drummer Dennis Thompson toured with a revived version of MC5, with various rock icons standing in for the la...

It’s hard to imagine any version of the Sex Pistols existing without John Lydon, better known as Johnny Rotten, the sneering and malevolent figure who fronted the band during their brief existence and who came back for the Pistols’ various reunions over the years. The late Sid Vicious was arguably just as important to the Pis...