Post Malone’s sophomore album Beerbongs & Bentleys debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart this week, marking the Texas-bred rapper’s first chart-topping LP. Now, the 22-year-old has surpassed the Billboard record for the most simultaneous hits in the Hot 100’s Top 20, which was previously held by The Beatles and J. Cole. More
The long and winding road is finally bringing Paul McCartney back to Australia and New Zealand. More
This review of the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” ran on June 18, 1967, with the headline “We Still Need the Beatles, but …” The Times’ current chief pop critic, Jon Pareles, revisited the album on its 50th anniversary this week. More
Actor Leo McKern, who played the evil swami Clang in the Beatles’ second feature-length film, shot the 8mm film while on the set of Help! The Beatles appear in 10 minutes of the footage, which has an asking price of approximately $45,000. More
The first previously unreleased outtake from The Beatles’ sprawling new 50th anniversary Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band reissue has surfaced. The Guardian has premiered an unadorned outtake of the title song. More
Gucci Mane performed a set at this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. In addition to playing songs from across his discography, he also did several songs from his slew of 2016 releases, including his comeback album, Everybody Looking. More
In an unbelievable moment of happenstance, Rae Sremmurd performed their chart-topping single “Black Beatles” Thursday on the Late Show‘s stage, where on that date in 1964, the Beatles themselves made their Ed Sullivan Show debut. More
Klaus Voormann, innovative visual artist and one-time bassist in John Lennon‘s Plastic Ono Band, created one of rock’s most vivid album covers for the Beatles‘ 1966 masterpiece, Revolver. On March 2nd, Genesis Publications will release the “Grammy Anniversary Edition” of Voormann’s 2016 book, Revolver 50, which chronicles the creation of that iconic art collage.
Each of the 500 available copies will include one of…
Paul McCartney has filed a federal lawsuit against music publisher Sony/ATV, claiming ownership to songs he wrote with the Beatles. More
An enthusiastic Rae Sremmurd brought their smash hit song “Black Beatles” to The Ellen Degeneres Show. “Unleash your inner rock star,” Swae Lee declared, cueing his band to launch into a hip-hop-meets-New-Order rendition of the smash single.
While Lee rapped onstage, near the band, his brother Slim… More