2017 was a breakthrough year for Asian music—or, more specifically, for one kind of Asian music: K-pop.

Welcome to WHAT NOW, a morning round-up of the news/fresh horrors that await you today.

It is Sunday, the Grammys have stretched into their third hour, Patti LuPone is singing a rendition of “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina,” and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is live-tweeting a seething commentary about Hillary Clinton’s Fire and Fury Grammys sketch. Time, as of 10:28 p.m., is a flat…

It’s music’s big night out! You might not recognize me, so allow me to introduce myself: I’m Maria Sherman, the managing editor of a new music site set to launch at GMG soon. Our team is hanging out with our friends at Splinter tonight to live blog the 60th annual Grammy Awards and bring you highlights.

The Grammys are this weekend, and host James Corden is making a pretty strong case about his role in the show. Yesterday, during the “ceremonial unrolling of the red carpet,” Corden, who also hosted the Grammy’s last year, told Variety, “In truth, this show doesn’t need a host.” Huh, you don’t say.

We’re just over a month away from the Coachella of 30-second television advertisements, aka the Super Bowl, and lo and behold, half-time performer Justin Timberlake has announced his new album. It’s called Man of the Woods (I know) and it comes complete with a minute-long video teaser. I’m not saying Man of the Woods …

It may be four days before Christmas (if that’s something you celebrate), but Cardi B is out here handing out precious gifts early. Not only did she become the first female rapper to have her first three singles hit the top ten of Billboard’s Hot 100, but yesterday she singlehandedly made The Tonight Show Starring…

2017 may have been a year of political chaos and increasingly bold white supremacy, but there is one person whose successes have brightened things up. She’s given us the biggest and best underdog story of the year and is making the idea of 2018 just a little more bearable. Of course I’m talking about none other than…

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced its inductees for 2018, and, apart from the dad-rock bands like Dire Straits and Moody Blues, the cool dad-rock band The Cars, and uh, Bon Jovi, the Hall has decided to honor two black women whose contributions to American music and culture have been massive: pianist,…

Taylor Swift’s new album Reputation comes out on Friday, and Swift has kicked off her album release week by getting into a tiff with none other than the American Civil Liberties Union. (My god, 2017 is truly going off the rails.)

This week, Rolling Stone published yet another account of R. Kelly’s alleged predatory behavior, providing the umpteenth reminder that the singer continues to hide in plain sight. In “Surviving R. Kelly,” former DJ Kitti Jones recounts her past relationship with Kelly and accuses him of physically abusing her, forcing…

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Sicangu Lakota hip hop artist and music producer Frank Waln has a dreamy new music video, for a track called “Good Way,” featuring Gunner Jules and Rollie Raps.

Donald Trump may have set the bar for responding well to the crisis in Puerto Rico impossibly low (as in, dug a six foot hole for the bar) but today, Lin-Manuel Miranda still went above and beyond.

Cardi B is the hottest female rapper out right now and she just proved that when her single,“Bodak Yellow,” reached the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 on Monday, dethroning Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” in one of the biggest and most symbolic chart wars in recent memory.

Antoine Hunter founded the Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival for deaf dancers from the world to teach, learn, and perform.

Summer 2017 brought us indelible scenes of racial tension in America: monuments to Confederate generals toppled and torch-wielding white nationalists marched, while families were ripped apart by armed government agents and a woman died protesting bigotry. Fall begins in one week, and as we close out the hottest season…

Brontez Purnell, a punk artist and frontman of the band Gravy Train!!!! and member of The Younger Lovers, gets real about race and punk rock. “When you’re a black punk rocker who plays rock ‘n roll, your identity is triple marginalized,” he says.

There was nothing particularly notable about Eminem’s performance at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards—except his sweatshirt.

I went to my first Basement Bhangra as a college student. To walk into a New York City club full of brown people and actually hear bhangra blasting from of the speakers gave me a rare feeling: You’re normal, you belong, and here was something that was made for you.

Kesha’s latest album, Rainbow, was hailed as a triumphant comeback, and now her album’s got the Billboard certification to back it up. Rainbow debuted at the top of the Billboard 200, giving her her first number one album since Animal seven years ago.