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XXXTentacion performs during the second day of the Rolling Loud Festival in downtown Miami on May 6, 2017.

Drake’s ‘In My Feelings’ was summer’s most popular tune — is that enough to be crowned song of the summer?

December 12, 2018 at 8:16 p.m.

Lend ye ears! Spotify hath made a proclamation, and it is thus: Drake has hereby been duly crowned, as his song "In My Feelings" hath been adorned with that sought-after...

Sen. John McCain speaks with his 2008 vice-presidential running mate, then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, while surrounded by their families at a rally in Dayton, Ohio. Her presence on the ticket briefly boosted his campaign.

From ‘Wedding Crashers’ to SNL, John McCain was no stranger to pop culture

August 22, 2019 at 5:04 a.m.

In the wake of Sen. John McCain's death on Saturday, tributes and memorials to his long and storied life have poured out. McCain was an honored veteran, a respected statesman...

Kid Rock, Johnny Van Zant and Ed King, right, of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, perform "Sweet Home Alabama"/"Free Bird" in 2006.

How Californian Ed King came to co-write the Southern anthem ‘Sweet Home Alabama’

December 12, 2018 at 7:44 p.m.

Ed King was from California. Yet the first words we hear before the infectious riff on "Sweet Home Alabama" - "One, two three!" - belong to the Glendale-born King, who...

Rescuers work on July 9 near the cave where 12 young soccer team members and their coach were trapped in Chiang Rai, Thailand.

The Thai cave rescue is being made into a movie. As Hollywood’s history shows, this was inevitable

December 12, 2018 at 9:18 p.m.

The jokes, groans and eye-rolls started on Twitter even before the announcement - replete with tongue-in-cheek casting predictions. "How soon is too soon to start boycotting the Hollywood movie of...

Donald Trump has claimed credit for Lady Gaga's success.

From Elton John to Eminem to Peggy Lee: Trump’s bizarre history with pop music

December 12, 2018 at 9:04 p.m.

President Donald Trump is no stranger to making statements that leave his crowds cheering and everyone else puzzled. He continued that trend Thursday when he told a crowd in Montana,...

Drake's "Scorpion" utterly decimated current streaming records. It broke the one-week U.S. streaming record for an album in a mere three days, eclipsing Post Malone's "beerbongs & bentleys," which earned the record less than two months prior.

Billboard’s charts used to be our barometer for music success. Are they meaningless in the streaming age?

December 12, 2018 at 8:53 p.m.

Drake and Kanye West - two reigning kings of pop music - both flooded the American consciousness with music this summer in strikingly different manners. West released a series of...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Sixty years ago, Elvis Presley was drafted into the Army. He was never the same.

December 17, 2018 at 4:23 p.m.

While Elvis Presley was the King, he was also a sergeant. Elvis's stint in the U.S. Army began 60 years ago this week. His service didn't last long, but it...

‘Cheaters edition’ of Monopoly cheerfully caters to sordid reality

December 14, 2018 at 7:30 p.m.

In a heated game of Monopoly, there was always a certain gravitas in being the banker, the player who keeps a close eye on the money and ensures everyone plays...

ACLU scolds Taylor Swift for effort to protect reputation

May 13, 2019 at 10:44 a.m.

Taylor Swift and the American Civil Liberties Union are butting heads. The organization sent Swift's legal team a strongly worded letter denouncing her threat to sue a California blogger who,...

Fox filmed ‘Empire’ in a juvenile prison. Now it’s being sued by some inmates.

June 1, 2018 at 9:41 p.m.

A U.S. district judge in Chicago ruled Monday that a class-action lawsuit can move forward against Twentieth Century Fox Television. The lawsuit claimed the network encouraged Cook County officials, who...

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