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Read More »A Rolling Stone Roundtable With the Youth Climate Activists Fighting for Change in Davos
DAVOS, SWITZERLAND — Hours after President Trump kicked off the 2020 World Economic Forum on Tuesday by bashing climate activists as “prophets of doom,” Greta Thunberg countered with yet another scathing indictment of government and corporate leaders for failing to take meaningful action to combat climate change. “Our house is …
Read More »The Joy of Lizzo
L izzo knows that security guard was checking her out. It’s a crisp November evening in downtown Los Angeles, and she just breezed through a Sam Ash music store to see if they had a flute-studies book by Danish composer-flutist Karl Joachim Andersen; she wants to get back to practicing …
Read More »Here's How Overwhelmingly Male the Music Industry (Still) Is
The timing of this year’s USC Annenberg music report, which for the past several years has cleanly benchmarked the long-whispered-about-but-rarely-quantified demographic imbalances of the music business, couldn’t be more fitting. In addition to capping a year of newly transparent discussions about gender equality in the industry, it comes amid ongoing …
Read More »'Why Are They Doing This to Me?' Trump Asks Friends at Mar-a-Lago, While Legal Team Officially Denies Impeachment Charges
President Donald Trump’s legal team officially responded to last week’s Senate summons that notified the president that if he is convicted during the impeachment trial, he will be removed from office. Trump’s response came in a six-page letter on Saturday, according to the New York Times, where his lawyers blasted …
Read More »Mac Miller's Posthumous Album 'Circles' is a Fitting Coda to His Career
It is to Mac Miller’s great credit that he became more compelling the further his career progressed. He would have made millions if he had stayed true to his humble teenage beginnings as a sentient snapback hat, Lord Finesse admirer and legal opponent, and Pittsburgh’s sauciest white boy since Terry …
Read More »The Who, Stevie Nicks, Dead & Company Tapped for 2020 New Orleans Jazz Fest
The Who, Stevie Nicks, Dead & Company, Foo Fighters, Lizzo, and Lionel Richie are set to perform at the 2020 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The 51st annual festival will take place over two weekends: April 23rd through 26th, and April 30th to May 3rd. The first weekend will …
Read More »Tim and Eric Detail New Sitcom 'Beef House'
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim are prepping a new multi-camera sitcom, Beef House, which will premiere on Adult Swim later this year. Based on the few details available, the show seems to be a spoof of/homage to classic family sitcoms. Per a press release, Beef House will be about five …
Read More »Drive-By Truckers Call Out Unchecked Gun Violence in New Song, 'Thoughts and Prayers'
“Stick it up your ass with your useless thoughts and prayers,” sings Patterson Hood, not mincing words in the Drive-By Truckers‘ rebuke of the gun industry and Second Amendment-blind politicians, “Thoughts and Prayers.” The track is the latest release from the band’s upcoming 12th album, The Unraveling, due January 31st. …
Read More »How Trump's 'Imminent Threat' on Iran Turned in to the New WMD
His administration unable to keep its story straight about how exactly General Qasem Soleimani posed an “imminent threat” to U.S. national security, President Trump now claims it “really doesn’t matter” if the assassinated Iranian commander was about to kill Americans. Nothing could be further from the truth. The question of …
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