The first LGBT Pride parade — officially known as the Christopher Street Liberation Day March — took place 50 years ago to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall Riot, an uprising against police brutality and harassment led by Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera at the Stonewall Inn. This year, amid the …

Lady Gaga and Blackpink put you in a faux-VR headset in the new lyric video for “Sour Candy,” their collaboration from Gaga’s latest album Chromatica. Set in a candy-coated and surreal digital landscape, the lyric video places the viewer inside a virtual-reality headset, with lyrics from Lady Gaga and the Blackpink …

Lil Baby‘s My Turn returned to Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart — an impressive feat for an album in its 15th week. The songs on My Turn amassed close to 74 million streams. Lil Baby’s robust streaming total enabled My Turn to eclipse Lady Gaga‘s …

DaBaby has released a “Black Lives Matter” remix of his Number One hit single “Rockstar” with Roddy Ricch. The updated version of the track, released amid the George Floyd protests, features DaBaby adding a new verse detailing his own fraught experiences with police officers as well as the protests against …

On Friday morning, Lil Baby caught many by surprise. Peering at the listener behind a “No Justice, No Peace” face mask and wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt, the Atlanta rapper reintroduced himself to a world that, as of late, he’s already begun to conquer. “The Bigger Picture,” the rapper’s …

Samantha Bee tackled police brutality, the George Floyd protests and the need to defund the police on the latest episode of Full Frontal. “A sea change is happening, and it is step one, the first of many, to upend white supremacy,” Bee said. “We have to change the infrastructure of …

TheRecording Academy, the organization behind the Grammy Awards, announced Wednesday amid a number of rule changes that it is renaming the “Best Urban Contemporary Album” category. The category — which was added into the Grammys in 2012 and whose name has been the subject of increasing criticism — will now …

Bonnie Pointer, one of the two founding members of the Pointer Sisters, died Monday morning at age 69. The cause of death was not announced. In a statement, her older sister Anita said, “Bonnie was my best friend and we talked every day. We never had a fight in our …

In this week’s quarantine episode of ourUseful Idiots podcast, Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by two guests: former Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson and historian Dr. Gerald Horne, from the University of Houston. Our hosts discuss the George Floyd protests and rebellions happening for racial justice across the …

Brian Wilson delivered solo renditions of the Beach Boys classic “God Only Knows” and his own “Love and Mercy” during a #PlayAtHome performance for Thursday’s Late Show With Stephen Colbert. “I just want you guys to know that we’re all in this together,” Wilson told the audience from his piano. …