No single descriptor could sum up Prince, and he was acutely aware of this, turning his perceived ambiguity into copy (“Am I black or white / Am I straight or gay?” his how he mimicked outsiders’ curiosity in 1981's “Controversy”) and rejecting labels openly in a litany of all the things that he wasn’t in 1984's “I…

Today, on what would have been our dearly departed Prince’s 59th birthday, I have a recommendation: Get into Prince’s Camille project. The eight-song album (which would have turned 30 this year had it been released as originally intended) was to be issued with no mention of Prince’s name. Camille, the artist to be…

More than a year after his death in Chanhassen, Minnesota, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has released its internal file on Prince.

Like a Hilma af Klint painting beamed from the past to the future, a new old Prince song has arrived (can you tell I watched Personal Shopper this week?). A studio version of “Electric Intercourse,” a song that previously only circulated via bootlegs, has been released ahead of the deluxe edition of Purple Rain, which…

Via the Facebook page A Violet Reality, Variety got its hands on what it says is the tracklist of the long-delayed multi-disc reissue of Prince’s classic Purple Rain album (supposedly due out June 9, just two days after what would have been Prince’s 59th birthday). And if it’s real, please pinch me because I feel like…

Prince’s unexpected death last summer was determined an accidental overdose on the opioid fentanyl. Six days preceding his death, Prince overdosed on a plane, and had to be revived at a hospital following an emergency landing. Search warrants issued for Paisley Park, Prince’s Minnesota residence, have just been…

Prince’s ex-wife Mayte Garcia has written a memoir about her life with Prince (it’s called My Life With Prince) in which she shares stories about their “passionate love” and being “forever haunted” by the sudden death of their son Amir when he was just six days old.

Prince died in April and it does not appear that he left a will. An inventory of his estate was submitted to a probate court in Minnesota earlier this month, revealing millions of dollars’ worth of real estate—and a very impressive collection of cars and motorcycles.

Prince had fake palm trees in his bathroom. “Three-inch-tall flip-flops, or these heels with lights” was his idea of leisure footwear. He wanted to cancel birthdays. He enjoyed memes and sometimes made his own. He made his eggs with curry and cheddar, but he didn’t know how to turn on his oven. Despite his height, he…

Adding to her legal battle with her former management company, the girl with the bangs Zooey Deschanel has filed a cross-complaint that claims Sarah Jackson, a partner from Seven Summits, banged into her dressing room with two strangers –on purpose!–while she was changing her clothes.

The documentary Prince: R U Listening? will reportedly be released next year, and since Prince can do anything there’s a chance he is indeed listening.

“Moonbeam Levels,” the first official posthumous release from Prince’s legendary and reportedly vast vault, has landed. The clip below shows a handful of Prince enthusiasts in New York’s Cutting Room Studios hearing the pristine, officially sanctioned version of the track for the first time. However, as one fan points…

In all the public mourning for Prince in the six months surrounding his untimely passing, two very important members of his family have been left out of the conversation: his pet doves.

And now, some nice news: on October 6, Prince’s Paisley Park studio and residence will open to the public for daily tours.

My mother’s pain has hovered over my entire life. As a child I heard her screams at night, accompanied her to hospitals, watched her careful pill counting with mounting anxiety as the end of the prescription approached. I saw how some people recoiled from her frantic energy in emergency rooms and on the street.…

There’s reportedly a chance that Prince’s famous Paisley Park property will be sold.

Matt Damon is promoting the fifth Bourne movie (I honestly hope they make a thousand of those things) on the cover of this month’s GQ, and—in a twist—the magazine’s editors chose to interview other people about the actor for their story. Though it marks a full 180 from last month’s considerably more revealing profile…

Letter writing is a lost art, which is a real shame considering how unreliable Hotmail turned out to be. But back in the heady days of the 1980s, letters were in, Prince was alive, and Paul McCartney needed some cash for his then-inchoate Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.