Music

Olivia Dean just did what the biggest artists in the world routinely avoid: she took on Ticketmaster publicly, and won. After the singer blasted Ticketmaster, Live Nation, and AEG for allowing “vile” price-gouging on resale tickets for her The Art of Loving tour, the ticketing monopoly have now agreed to cap resale prices and refund

In a new interview with CLASH, Hayley Williams opens up with striking candor about art, identity, and accountability. The Paramore frontwoman is currently promoting Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party, a project she describes as “a splintered thing”: part emotional memoir, part political meditation, and a full-on rejection of the expectations that have followed her

As the Trump administration continues to lean on pop music to bolster its political messaging, artists across the spectrum have been pushed back loudly. Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, Selena Gomez and others have all condemned the government’s repeated use of their songs without consent, often in service of hardline immigration policies and nationalist propaganda. But

Taylor Swift’s merch is once again under fire from a growing faction of increasingly disillusioned Swifties who say they’re done making excuses for her. After complaints about high prices and questionable quality from the pop star’s merch in recent years, some of her fans are now calling out the singer for what they describe as

When you’re on track to become the planet’s first trillionaire, nothing says “I’m a serious visionary” like recycling middle-school insults at a 23-year-old pop star. Elon Musk, noted humanitarian, allergy sufferer to criticism, and self-proclaimed genius, took a break from not ending world hunger this week to fire back at Billie Eilish, the musician who

Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl has been breaking all kinds of records and has earned 3.5 million equivalent album units in the U.S. since its October 3 release, according to Luminate. With 3.2 million traditional sales and another 300,000 from streaming, the album has now surpassed Adele’s 25 for the largest debut week by total units since Billboard began using its