Barcelona’s Primavera Sound festival was forced to evacuate some of its stages Thursday — including canceling headlining sets by Doja Cat and Massive Attack — due to severe weather. Sets by Alex G, Mac DeMarco, and Bad Gyal were also canceled after heavy rain and wind gusts made performances at some of the festival’s stages … Read more
Following a sold-out acoustic show at New York City’s Madison Square Garden last night, Phoebe Bridgers has revealed details of The Lost Tour for 2026. Other than the series of surprise pop-up acoustic shows that have wrapped around the country over the last few weeks – beginning in Roswell, New Mexico on May 8th, continuing … Read more
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. When Dr. Martens released its Metallica collaboration back in January, fans of both the cult-loved footwear brand and the heavy metal band lost their minds… and a bit of their money. The demand … Read more
There was once a time when “straight-to-VHS” was a slur, code for largely terrible bargain bucket movies made for next to nothing yet sporting wildly-overpromising covers. Today, it’s not even a thing. VHS tapes were replaced by DVDs and eventually streaming. The last VCR player was made in 2016. Most machines lie broken, covered in … Read more
When Donald Trump announced this week that Bill Pulte, the highly controversial director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, would serve as the acting director of national intelligence, the president’s move sent shockwaves through political and intelligence circles for the most obvious of reasons. Pulte has literally no background in intelligence or national security, failing … Read more
Kit Harington and Peter Dinklage haven’t seen each other for seven years — not since the 2019 conclusion of “Game of Thrones,” the megahit HBO fantasy series that launched Harington’s career and cemented Dinklage’s, earning him three Emmys. But they spent the better part of a decade working together, enduring brutal conditions to tell an … Read more
The proposed $111 billion merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery is approaching completion, but concerns around debt, execution risk, and long-term industry volatility loom large. On the latest episode of the Variety podcast “Strictly Business,” Naveen Sarma, sector lead for U.S. media and telecom at S&P Global, explained the rationale for the downgrade his agency gave the … Read more
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. After a thrilling start of the F1 season in Canada, Andrea Kimi Antonelli of Team Mercedes won yet another race (his fourth of the season) gaining 131 points after 70 laps. Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton … Read more
Expectations heading into this week showed projections of about 80,000 new jobs being created in the United States in May. As it turns out, according to the new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the totals far exceeded those expectations. CNBC reported: Job growth unexpectedly surged in May as the U.S. labor market continued … Read more
After more than three years of waging war against its neighbors, Israel appears to be more negatively regarded not only in the United States, where Israel’s image has been sinking since shortly after the outbreak of its war in Gaza in October 2023, but in the rest of the world as well. According to a … Read more