Paramore's After Laughter is one of the best albums of the year, but it also harbors an uncomfortable truth, which is that it has not carried through the mainstream pop success of its predecessor, the band's 2013 self-titled album. This is despite After Laughter being Paramore's most pop album yet—lead single "Hard Times" could have been a Tom Tom Club song, and subsequent singles like "Told...

Nelly has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman, TMZ and and KCPQ report. The incident allegedly took place early this morning in Washington state, according to law enforcement sources who spoke with TMZ. The rapper, born Cornell Iral Haynes Jr., is scheduled to perform tonight in Ridgefield, Washington with Florida Georgia Line. According to KCPQ, the alleged victim told police she joined...

Greg Ahee, shaggy and affable guitarist of the Detroit post-punk band Protomartyr, suggested that headline up there. We were drinking beers and bloody marys at 1 p.m. on a Tuesday, in the backyard of a Brooklyn bar whose recent history doubles as a parable of gentrification and failed aspirations—one that could have been pulled from a Protomartyr song. First it was a cheap place to eat, serving no-nonsense...