Rolling Stone is pleased to announce a launch this week of Useful Idiots, a news and politics podcast co-hosted by Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper. Useful Idiots is an iconoclastic take on the political podcast. Imagine a standard cable-news commentary show, and we’ll be shooting for its opposite. We’ll be …

Brooklyn indie rockers DIIV have shared the lumbering and brutally honest new song “Taker” off their upcoming album, Deceiver, out October 4th via Captured Tracks. “Taker” recalls classic grunge-era ballads, moving at a brooding, down-tempo pace as the drums thud and the guitars shift between a crackle and a roar. …

Lenny Kravitz, John Travolta and Billy Ray Cyrus have signed on as presenters for the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards. Rick Ross, Salt-N-Pepa, Ice-T, Bebe Rexha, Megan Thee Stallion, French Montana, Jonathan Van Ness, Keke Palmer, Lindsey Vonn, Hailee Steinfeld, NHL player P.K. Subban, former NFL star Victor Cruz and …