Gorillaz and Malian musician Fatoumata Diawara venture to scenic Lake Como in Italy in the new video for their collaboration, “Désolé.” The track and video mark the second installment of the animated outfit’s “Song Machine” series. “Désolé,” which means “sorry” in French, boasts a simmering groove that takes a delightfully …
Read More »Norah Jones Sets U.S. Tour With Mavis Staples
Seven months after collaborating on a song together, Norah Jones and Mavis Staples will embark on a joint U.S. tour. The singers, who partnered in October 2019 for the new track “I’ll Be Gone,” will kick off the first half of their U.S. tour on May 10th in Spicewood, Texas, …
Read More »How the Chilean Uprising Fueled Francisca Valenzuela's Feminist Opus, 'La Fortaleza'
It’s been nearly five months since a wave of austerity measures, proposed by Chilean President Sebastián Piñera, sent Chile spiraling into civil unrest. Outside the grounds of the 60th annual Viña del Mar International Song Festival on Monday night — the longest-running music festival in Latin America — up to …
Read More »Fox Business Blaming Stock Market Drop on Sanders Is a Sign of Things to Come
While most analysts attributed the Dow plunging more than 1,000 points on Monday to the number of coronavirus cases climbing outside of China, Fox Business host Charles Payne claimed it was the fault of Bernie Sanders’ recent campaign success. This is an easy line for Sanders critics to trot out …
Read More »Watch Anderson Cooper Eviscerate Rod Blagojevich During Heated Interview
CNN’s Anderson Cooper blasted former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich after the now-free, corrupt politician said that he had been a political prisoner. Blagojevich, who President Trump granted clemency to on Tuesday, said during an interview on Friday, “I am a political prisoner. I was put into prison for practicing politics.” …
Read More »5 Seconds of Summer Look Back in 'Old Me'
5 Seconds of Summer reflect on their youth in “Old Me.” The track is the latest single from their upcoming album Calm, out March 27th on Interscope Records. “Shout out to the old me/And everything you showed me,” lead singer Luke Hemmings declares in the chorus before he transitions into …
Read More »Viral Newcomer Breland Takes Country-Trap From Moment to Movement
Breland is not yet a household name, but he and his recently assembled Atlantic Records team are confident that will change quickly. Earlier this month, “My Truck,” the singer-rapper’s country-trap ode to the titular vehicle, reached Number One on Spotify’s Viral 50 chart. His Spotify profile has more than 1.2 …
Read More »Rising Rapper Pop Smoke Shot Dead in L.A.
Pop Smoke, the rising New York rapper whose gruff-voiced style made fans of stars like Cardi B and Nicki Minaj, was shot and killed in Los Angeles on Wednesday. A representative for the LAPD confirmed the rapper’s death to Rolling Stone. The Los Angeles police responded to an emergency call …
Read More »'This Is Disastrous': How the Vinyl Industry Is Responding to the Apollo Masters Fire
The day that everyone in the vinyl-manufacturing world has been worried about for years finally arrived. Earlier this month, Apollo Masters Corp., one of the two places in the world that produce the lacquer discs needed to assemble master plates for pressing records, burned down. The blaze reportedly took 82 …
Read More »'Hunters' Review: Nazi Revenge Fantasy Goes Big on Grindhouse Style
In the second episode of Amazon’s pulpy new drama Hunters, a team of anti-Nazi vigilantes, led by concentration camp survivor Meyer Hoffman (Al Pacino), confronts a former concentration camp commander who now lives a posh life in late-Seventies America. Hoffman’s group surrounds the Nazi and reads testimonials of the many …
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