There is perhaps no photographer who captured the Eighties and Nineties hip-hop scenes in New York better than Ricky Powell. Known best for his working relationship with the Beastie Boys, Powell was a prolific shooter who captured iconic images of Run-DMC, Madonna, Eric B and Rakim, Laurence Fishburne, Keith Haring, …

With the launch of HBO Max, Elmo has received his very own Sesame Street spinoff on the new streaming platform. It’s called The Not-Too-Late Show, a sendup of late-night talk shows, and one of Elmo’s first guests this week was rapper and star Lil Nas X. “Welcome to the show!” Elmo said …

Alana Chenevert never really liked her given name. So around 2010, she started calling herself “Dodgr,” in tribute to Oliver Twist and her hometown L.A. baseball team. “I decided I was just gonna go for it,” she says, calling from Portland, Oregon, where she’s staying with her girlfriend. The year …

K-pop‘s world domination seems to get closer by the day. Just months after the folks at Big Hit Entertainment celebrated their star groupBTS‘ chart-topping success with album Map of the Soul: 7 —which became the South Korean icons’ fourth consecutive LP to go Number One in the U.S. — the …

Eric Clapton and B.B. King‘s 2000 collaborative album Riding With the King will be reissued for its 20th anniversary with two previously unreleased tracks on June 26th via Reprise Records. One of those rarities was shared along with the album announcement, a rendition of the blues standard, “Rollin’ and Tumblin’.” …

In the midst of a pandemic that is killing black, indigenous, and Latino people disproportionately, we do indeed have larger things to be concerned about right now than Joe Biden and what he said to Charlamagne Tha God on The Breakfast Club. Still, since not every conversation needs to be …

UPDATE (6/22): Helter Skelter: An American Myth will now premiere on July 26 at 10 p.m. EST. UPDATE (6/5):The release date for Helter Skelter has been pushed back and it will no longer premiere on June 14. A new date has not yet been announced. *** More than 50 years …

A woman wakes up in a rowboat. She’s in the middle of a lake. She has no idea how she got there. Worse, she has no idea who she is. This is a hell of a starting point — the possibilities seem virtually limitless for the kinds of stories you …

Ken Osmond, the actor best known for playing Eddie Haskell on the classic sitcom Leave It to Beaver before leaving the industry to become a police officer, died Monday at his home in Los Angeles, Variety reports. He was 76. A cause of death was not immediately available, though Osmond’s …

Lynn Shelton, the director of acclaimed independent films like Humpday and Your Sister’s Sister and episodes of New Girl, G.L.O.W. and Little Fires Everywhere, died Friday at the age of 54. The cause of death was a blood disorder, Variety reported. Marc Maron, Shelton’s partner at the time of her …