Scott Stapp reflects on the trying past five years of his life and his road to redemption on the singer’s new song “Purpose for Pain.” The track features on the Creed singer’s upcoming album The Space Between the Shadows, his first solo LP since 2013’s Proof of Life and the …
Read More »Museums Are Rejecting Donations From the Sackler Family
On Thursday, the Tate became the latest institution to reject any further donations from the Sackler family, the controversial owner of Purdue Pharmaceuticals, which is alleged to have played a major role in driving the opioid crisis. In a statement, a spokesperson for the Tate wrote: “The Sackler family has …
Read More »Hear Bruce Hornsby, Bon Iver's Justin Vernon's Gentle 'Cast-Off'
Bruce Hornsby invited Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon to join him in the studio for a serene new song, “Cast-Off,” that will appear on his upcoming album, Absolute Zero. The two artists trade off vocals about loving someone so much they’d be OK with being someone’s castoff. “I’ll be your castoff,” …
Read More »Ex Hex's 'It's Real' Is a Garage-Rock Killer
“Angie, are you tough enuh-uff/To let it go?” asks Mary Timony over sugared electric guitar churn at the outset of Ex Hex’s latest, immortalizing a new rock’n’roll Angie with as much performative heartache and swagger as Jagger, maybe more. Ex Hex’s second album is about garage-rock thrust at its core, …
Read More »What It Would (Really) Take to Abolish the Electoral College
In 2016, Americans cast their ballots for Hillary Clinton by a margin of close to three million votes. Donald Trump became president, though, because of the Electoral College, which he won 304-227. The system is ostensibly in place to ensure that nation’s rural areas have a voice in national elections, …
Read More »Turns Out That Trillion-Dollar Bailout Was, in Fact, Real
Last summer, Washington Post “Fact-checker” columnist Glenn Kessler wrote that the Medicare for All plan favored by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) would cause “providers” to face an “immediate cut of 40 percent in their payments.” The piece was quickly amended to reflect that the cuts only referred to private insurance …
Read More »Meek Mill: See First Teaser for Amazon Docuseries 'Free Meek'
Meek Mill revealed the first teaser for his upcoming docuseries Free Meek during the rapper’s sold-out performance at the Met in his native Philadelphia amid the “Meek Mill Weekend” celebrations. The preview, which was also uploaded to YouTube, features snapshots of concert footage, documents from the case as well as …
Read More »'Say Anything' Cast to Reunite for 30th Anniversary Screening at Tribeca Film Festival
Filmmaker Cameron Crowe and the cast of Say Anything… will reunite for a special 30th anniversary screening and discussion at the Tribeca Film Festival. The festival also announced it would host the premieres of a new documentary about Phish frontman Trey Anastasio, Between Me and My Mind, as well as …
Read More »12 Senate Republicans Defy Trump, Vote to 'Terminate' National Emergency
The Senate on Thursday voted in favor of a resolution to “terminate” President Trump’s national emergency declaration. The vote marks a stunning bipartisan rebuke of the president, who last month used his executive privilege to circumvent Congress and fund the construction of a wall along the southern border. Though the …
Read More »Hilarious 'Bel Air' Trailer Reimagines 'The Fresh Prince' as a Dramatic Movie
What if The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air were shot in 2019 and was a serious indie movie instead of a goofy early 1990s sitcom? That’s the brilliant question director that cinematography Morgan Cooper poses in his hilarious fake trailer Bel-Air, which hit the internet earlier this week and has already …
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