Stereogum — Lorde has been playing the festival circuit this summer to bring her Melodrama songs to big audiences -- she'll go on a world tour that kicks off in the fall -- but she recorded some intimate renditions of select Melodrama tracks for a Vevo session... more info

Chorus.fm — Lorde and Jack Antonoff covered Paul Simon’s “Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard” at the Outside Lands festival over the weekend. more info

Stereogum — Did you know Lorde sampled Paul Simon on Melodrama ? It's true! Upon the album's release she tweeted that Simon's voice, excerpted from a Graceland documentary, can be heard at the start of "Loveless" asking "What is this tape?" And now Lorde and Me... more info

PopSugar UK — The 2017 MTV Video Music Awards are almost upon us! After releasing the exciting list of gender-neutral nominations - which sees Kendrick Lamar leading the pack with eight noms while Katy Perry and The Weeknd are both tied for the second most nomina... more info

Stereogum — Although Bleachers frontman Jack Antonoff has become suddenly ubiquitous as a producer -- including on Lorde's masterful Melodrama -- he's also been quite busy with his own band this year, releasing a new album called Gone Now and touring to promote ... more info

Stereogum — Kendrick Lamar has joined a lineup of MTV Video Music Awards performers that already included the likes of Lorde, the Weeknd, Miley Cyrus, and Katy Perry. According to a press release, this will be his first solo headline VMAs performance, and his ei... more info

PopSugar UK — One thing that's never gone out of style in Hollywood: cultivating a unique persona with the help of a stage name. Even today, as social media influences celebrities to be more authentic and accessible, new stars have traded their names for shorter o... more info

Stereogum — Daughter, the London trio that made its name on grandly dramatic indie rock something like Lorde fronting the National, is not the first band I'd have expected to record the soundtrack for a video game. But that's just what they've done. Life Is Stra... more info

PopSugar UK — On Friday, Lorde performed at Osheaga, a star-studded music festival that sweeps through Montreal. In addition to most likely performing some of the best songs from her exquisite new album, Melodrama, the New Zealand songstress also took a moment to... more info

Pop Crunch — We have dug through the dark corners of the internet to find the Top 10 most insane celebrity-centric conspiracy theories out there. If you have ever wondered how many celebrities the CIA has killed (Spoilers: at least two, according to many woke int... more info