Stereogum — Last year the major concert industry began embracing facial recognition technology. Ticketmaster invested in a company called Blink Identity with the goal of one day letting ticketholders associate their face with their ticket and walk into concerts ... more info

Dlisted — The increasingly brightly-hued Taylor Swift will no longer perform at Australia’s Melbourne Cup horse racing event. She pulled out after horsie rights protesters and her more equine-minded fans gave her a ration of shit over it due to the Cup alleg... more info

Stereogum — Taylor Swift has cancelled her upcoming performance at this year's Melbourne Cup, the Guardian reports. She was scheduled to sing two tracks from her new album Lover in what was being billed as her only show in Australia of the year. The Melbourne Cu... more info

Stereogum — Remember when a young Taylor Swift broke through with a song called "Tim McGraw"? Here is the indie rock version of that. more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Talking to Rolling Stone, Taylor Swift opened up about the polarizing "Game of Thrones" finale, Kanye West and Scooter Braun's purchase of her back catalog. more info

Dlisted — Taylor Swift appears on the cover of Rolling Stone’s October issue looking like a teen girl who shoplifted a Morphe palette from Sephora so she could attempt to successfully recreate a Euphoria makeup tutorial she saw on YouTube (not a terrible loo... more info

Chorus.fm — Brian Hiatt, writing for Rolling Stone: She wants to talk about the music, of course, but she is also ready to explain the past three years of her life, in depth, for the first time. The conversation is often not a light one. She’s built up more ar... more info

USA Today Music — Swift described in detail how she attempted to reconnect with West in 2015, after his infamous onstage crashing of her Video Music Awards speech in 2009.             more info

Consequence of Sound — The Lover star also called out Kanye for backstabbing Drake. Taylor Swift rips into “two-faced” Kanye West in new interview Lake Schatz more info

USA Today Music — Taylor Swift dug into one of the most fraught relationships of her career – not with one of her celebrity exes, but with Kanye West.             more info