So here we are again. The world was in the middle of the cruelest summer ever, just staggering through late July, when Taylor Swift decided to make it all so much messier — her specialty. In a move that nobody saw coming, she announced a surprise album on July 23rd, …
Read More »Guided By Voices' Robert Pollard Talks Record-Breaking Livestream, (Another) New Album
Guided By Voices thumbed their noses at the ongoing pandemic last Friday when they performed a lengthy, high-energy live-streamed show in an empty venue in Dayton, Ohio. According to frontman Robert Pollard, it was the most-watched event on the NoonChorus platform to date. Still, not content to rest on their …
Read More »Stone Temple Pilots to Perform 'Core' During Livestream Concert
Stone Temple Pilots will perform their debut album Core in its entirety during a livestream concert July 31st at 5 p.m. PST/8 p.m. EST on Nugs.tv. Digital tickets to the livestream will cost $9.99 each and are available to purchase now. Following the premiere, the concert will be available to …
Read More »BTS, Coldplay, Migos, Miley Cyrus to Play iHeartRadio Festival in September
The iHeartRadio Festival will go on this September despite the coronavirus, Variety reports on Tuesday. BTS, Coldplay, Kane Brown, Khalid, Keith Urban, Migos, Miley Cyrus, Thomas Rhett, Usher and more will perform for the September 18th and 19th event, taping performances in Los Angeles and Nashville that adhere to social …
Read More »The Remarkable Rise of Lil Baby
L il Baby has four pockets stuffed with cash, and he’d like to keep it that way. The 25-year-old rapper has spent the past 15 minutes teaching me to play cee-lo, a dice game that helped make him famous in certain Atlanta circles long before he reached legal drinking age. …
Read More »Perry Farrell to Release 35-Year Retrospective Box Set
Perry Farrell — the frontman for Jane’s Addiction, Porno for Pyros and Satellite Party — has announced Perry Farrell: The Glitz; The Glamour, a nine-vinyl box set that will take a retrospective look at Farrell’s prolific 35-year-long career. The box set’s 68 tracks cover rarities and early recordings of Farrell’s, …
Read More »Trevor Noah, Fallon Climb the Hill of Beans That Is Trump's Goya Obsession
Trevor Noah and Jimmy Fallon joked about President Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka Trump’s ethically dubious decision to essentially post sponsored content for Goya Foods after the company’s president, Robert Unanue, praised Trump last week. Unanue’s comments prompted some liberals to call for a boycott of the company’s products, …
Read More »Beastie Boys, Queen, Bob Marley Receive Limited-Run SiriusXM Channels
Beastie Boys, Queen, and Bob Marley will each be the focus of their own limited-run channels on SiriusXM, which will also bring back a Prince channel dedicated to the “Purple Rain” singer. Michael Jackson and Coldplay will receive weeklong tribute channels starting Wednesday, July 15th, the satellite-radio service announced Wednesday. …
Read More »How a Perfect Storm of Forces Finally Changed the Racist 'Redskins' Name
If you want to truly understand just how monumental, how transformative it is that the NFL’s Washington football team on Monday officially dumped its racist nickname, the Redskins, we need to briefly go back in time to the year 1961. The owner of the organization, George Preston Marshall, had refused …
Read More »Fox News Achieves Peak Gaslighting by Claiming Trump Never Called Mexicans Rapists
When Donald Trump announced that he was running for president in June of 2015, he made it extremely clear what he thought about immigration and, in particular, Mexican immigrants. But if you tuned into Fox News on Friday, you would have witnessed a gaslighting for the ages. Related: 2015: The …
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