Author: Amanda Collins
As we’ve learned from watching the New Heights podcast, Travis Kelce‘s got jokes. Which is why it was no surprise when the Kansas City Chiefs’ three-time Super Bowl champ had a pithy quip when asked by reporters on Thursday (Sept. 4) to describe the biggest change in his life since recently getting engaged to longtime love Taylor Swift. “I got one more ring for it, two if we’re counting the first Super Bowl, ” Kelce said at a news conference in São Paulo, Brazil in advance of the Chiefs’ season kick-off game against the Los Angeles Chargers, according to the…
Sydney Sweeney has shut down any discussion of her American Eagle jeans controversy in a new interview. In July, the Euphoria star drew criticism for her involvement in the American Eagle Jeans campaign, which many online have accused of having racially charged undertones. Both Lizzo and Doja Cat have criticised the campaign, while Sweeney was heckled at a recent film premiere, with an onlooker shouting: “Stop the ad, that is being racist!” American Eagle released a statement in early August, saying: “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans is and always was about the jeans. Her jeans. Her story”. The commercial received…
Things just got swaggier. In the small hours of Friday morning (Sept. 3), Justin Bieber unleashed new album Swag II with just a short warning. Coming just a couple of months after the release of the pop star’s first Swag album, Swag II arrived after Bieber announced its existence via a slew of electronic billboards in different cities on Thursday (Sept. 4). As opposed to Swag‘s black-and-white visuals featuring photography of the singer and his family, Swag II‘s color scheme was established as baby pink in the billboards and in posts on Bieber’s Instagram. Disc 1 is the new release,…
Billboard sizes up the 23 new songs on Bieber’s semi-surprise sequel set. 9/5/2025 Justin Bieber Renell Medrano Swag, swag, swag… on II. The suddenly very prolific pop superstar Justin Bieber announced over social media on Thursday (Sept. 4) that midnight would bring with it the surprise sequel to his equally unexpected Swag album from July. Midnight came and went without the suddenly highly anticipated release, but just around 3:30 a.m. ET, the set appeared on YouTube, trickling to other DSPs shortly after. Swag II was now officially with us. The 23-track set follows in the organic-sounding, warm-feeling alt-R&B mode of…
Netflix has announced its animated Tomb Raider adaptation will be ending with its second season. Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft premiered on Netflix in October 2024 and was renewed for a second season the same month. The adaptation, which sees Hayley Atwell voicing Lara Croft, is set in the same universe as the modern Tomb Raider: Survivor trilogy and follows on from the events of 2018’s Shadow Of The Tomb Raider. The second season will hit the streamer on December 11 and, according to a report from Variety, will bring the story to an end. It was not…
Travis teamed up with Alex James recently for a live cover of Blur‘s classic single ‘The Universal’. Watch below. READ MORE: Travis share single ‘Gaslight’ and talk new album ‘L.A. Times’: “America is so wrapped in their own history” Fran Healy and co. played a set at this year’s edition of James’ annual music and food event, The Big Feastival, which is held on his Cotswolds farm near Kingham, Oxfordshire. Later, the bassist’s Britpop Classical collective – who perform orchestral covers of ’90s bangers – delivered their debut show to close out the weekend. During the set, they invited Travis…
David Bowie‘s secret final project has been revealed after being unearthed in the late musician’s study. READ MORE: David Bowie’s earliest years – as told by the people who knew him best In 2016, Bowie shared his final creative offering in the ‘Blackstar‘ album, which was released only days before his passing and saw him confront his own mortality amid an 18-month battle with cancer. Now, it’s emerged that his final months were spent working on a separate project, described in his notes as an “18th century musical” titled The Spectator, details of which he kept under wraps, and its existence remained…
Radiohead are set to embark on a UK and European tour later this year – find all the details on how to register and buy tickets below. The band are due to make their long-awaited return to the stage this November for a run of 20 arena concerts across five cities. It’ll mark their first performances together since 2018. Kicking off in Madrid, the upcoming trek will also include concerts in Bologna, Copenhagen, Berlin and London. Thom Yorke and co’s return to the UK capital will see them host a four-night residency at The O2 in Greenwich on November 21, 22,…
In a new documentary, Macaulay Culkin shared that the late John Candy looked out for him on the set of Uncle Buck, sensing that the child star’s father was difficult before anyone else. Canadian actor Candy was one of the biggest comedy stars of the ‘80s and early ‘90s, famous for films such as Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Spaceballs, and Cool Runnings. He died in 1994, aged just 43, from a heart attack, and remains a beloved figure in film. Colin Hanks, whose father Tom starred with Candy in 1984’s Splash, has directed a documentary on the actor’s life called John Candy: I…
The forthcoming Netflix series Black Rabbit stars Jude Law and Jason Bateman as the brothers behind a white-hot restaurant and VIP lounge in New York City. If that premise isn’t enticing enough, the show will also get a heavy dose of glamour via RAYE, who will appear in an episode of the show playing herself while performing the show’s titular establishment. Billboard is premiering exclusive images from her appearance on the show. In tandem with the news, RAYE has released a cover of “What a Difference a Day Makes,” a beloved standard whose 1959 recording by Dinah Washington won a…