Kane Brown took a stop on his drive on Interstate 81/64 in Virginia on Thursday (Aug. 6) for some lunch. As expected, the Subway employees at White’s Travel Center were shocked to see the country superstar walk through the door. The travel center shared a photo from the exciting moment on Facebook, in which Brown is seen in a mask, throwing up the “hang loose” sign while posing w...
Eight months into 2020, blink-182 is singing what we’re all thinking: ‘F— quarantine.” The group’s latest single, “Quarantine,” is truly an angsty anthem of the times we’re living in amid the coronavirus pandemic. The new rock song’s chorus pays tribute to everyday tasks we had taken for granted or even found boring before we were locked in our...
New Music Friday is intense. Hundreds of songs drop from artists around the world, and you’re supposed to somehow find the best ones. It’s fun work, but it’s time-consuming — so we at Billboard Dance want to give you a hand. Each week, we sift through the streams and dig in the digital crates to present the absolute must-hears from the wide breadth of jams. This week, we...
James Gandolfini was a big Green Day fan. Surprised? Don’t be. According to Michael Imperioli — who played Christopher Moltisanti opposite Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano on the HBO mob drama — detailed the late actor’s on-set listening habits in the comments of a recent Instagram post, as Stereogum reports. And Dookie, the band’s 1994 alt-punk classic, was apparently a staple fo...
Danielle Levitt/August Images Ava DuVernay is partnering with HBO Max and the team behind Twitter’s popular One Perfect Shot account to create a half-hour documentary series of the same name, the company announced today. One Perfect Shot will look at an iconic shot from different films, with the directors of those films walking viewers through a detailed breakdown of how it came to be. Each episod...
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A new website tries to streamline the process of signing up to vote by mail. VoteByMail.io is a new service created by volunteers with work experience at several prominent companies, including Google, Intel, Dropbox, and Nike, that aims to help registered voters sign up for a mail-in ballot. The site is available in nine languages, and VoteByMail has partner...
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge These days, we almost take it as a given that piss-poor security will inevitably expose some of your usernames and passwords to the world — that’s why 2FA is so important, and why you might want a password checkup tool like the ones now built into every modern browser (well, Safari is coming soon) so you can quickly replace the ones that were stolen. But nea...
Getty Images for WarnerMedia Two of WarnerMedia’s top executives, Bob Greenblatt and Kevin Reilly, are leaving the company as CEO Jason Kilar begins to plan the company’s future with a tighter focus on HBO Max. Greenblatt oversaw all of the company’s direct-to-consumer lines and oversaw WarnerMedia as a whole; Kevin Reilly was WarnerMedia’s content chief. He also served as president of TBS, TNT, a...
Tom Morello released the folky “You Belong to Me,” a previously unissued song from his solo project The Nightwatchman. You can watch the accompanying video below or buy the tune via Bandcamp. The track, built around Morello’s fingerpicked nylon-string guitar and brooding vocals, mentions Nat Turner, who led a 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia. “Our present is tethered to our...
Source: Screenshot / Youtube Last night Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion had Twitter in a frenzy with the release of their highly anticipated collaboration “WAP” and now that she’s once again the darling of the Hip-Hop world, Cardi’s out there talkin’ that ish with the media and letting everyone into her world to learn more about how she gets down. Recently the Bronx b...
Source: WENN/Avalon / WENN Drake is balling out on another level. Champagne Papi just treated himself to more ice. As spotted on Hype Beast the Canadian MC has added some more custom jewelry to his already impressive collection. On Thursday, August 6 he posted new visuals of him sporting never seen before pieces. On his neck was a traditional flying cupid figure shooting his arrow of love but this...