UPDATE (9/27): Kim Kardashian announced on Friday night that Kanye West’s new album will arrive on Sunday following a NYC listening party. “Just a few final tweaks to the mixes,” the rapper’s wife wrote on Instagram. ** Less than a month ago, Kim Kardashian announced, via Twitter, the impending release …
Read More »Metallica Plot 2020 Benefit Concert for Charitable Foundation
UPDATE (2/13): The second installment of the All Within My Hands Helping Hands Concert has been rescheduled for September 12, 2020. “We may have been a little too ambitious with that date in terms of getting our shit together and giving you an experience that matches or surpasses the first …
Read More »Impeaching Donald Trump: Why Ukraine Delivers Where Russiagate Failed
The floodgates are open. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced “an official impeachment inquiry,” including an investigation of demands President Trump reportedly made of Ukraine to hamper a 2020 political rival — Joe Biden — while simultaneously holding up hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to the Eastern …
Read More »Emmys Awards 2019 Opening: Homer Simpson, Anthony Anderson, Bryan Cranston Lead Telecast
Without an announced host this year, it was unclear how the 2019 Emmys would go about, and the ceremony seemed to want to lampshade that chaos with its opening skit. The telecast on Fox began with Homer Simpson in a tux coming to the stage as the show’s host via …
Read More »Mark Ronson Courageously Comes Out of the Closet as … Sapiosexual
Some men are adept at intellectualizing their sexual desires; put another way, they spend an awful lot of time thinking and talking about what makes the blood flow to their peeners. John Mayer, who gave an infamous Playboyinterview referring to his “Benetton heart and David Duke cock,” is one such …
Read More »See Robert Plant Show Brian Johnson Around Where Led Zeppelin Recorded 'III'
Brian Johnson travels to Wales to meet Robert Plant in the place he moved to after recording Led Zeppelin II in a clip from the AC/DC frontman’s TV show A Life on the Road. “We rented the cottage I used to go to when I was a kid, which is …
Read More »Young M.A Dropped One of the Year's Best Freestyles When She Needed it Most
Freestyles aren’t known for being bastions of vulnerability. Traditionally, the form is a mixture of technical skill, improvisation, showmanship, and hyperbolic boasts. In July, Tyler, The Creator’s “Butt Sex” freestyle for Funk Flex broke the form wide open with a mix of trolling and fleeting moments of sincerity. In a …
Read More »Tennessee Aims to Become Pioneer in Cutting Health Spending on the Poor, Children
The radical Republican plan to gut Medicaid as we know it is alive and well in the state of Tennessee. Bill Lee, Tennessee’s Republican governor, unveiled on Tuesday a plan to make his state the first in the nation to overhaul its Medicaid system into a so-called block grant program. …
Read More »Ric Ocasek
This interview originally appeared in the April 17, 1997 issue of Rolling Stone You knew he was tall, but when Ric Ocasek walks out of the Blue Room at the Chung King House of Metal, in New York, you realize he’s impossibly tall — and reedlike to the point of …
Read More »Schoolboy Q Plots North American Tour With Nav
Schoolboy Q and Nav — an intriguing if oddball music coupling — are embarking on a 19-city North American tour this fall. The Crash Tour 2019 will launch November 4th at the Revention Music Center in Houston, Texas and include stops in cities like Atlanta, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chicago and Denver. …
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