When Dianne Lake joined the Charles Manson‘s “Family,” she was just 14 – the youngest recruit. A slight, comely girl with a cherubic face framed by shoulder-length ginger hair, Lake had recently started embracing the hippie attire and lifestyle proliferating in California by 1967, when she first met the clan. …

Christmas may be a time to bring loved ones together, but it also has a long history of inspiring love-hate songs — especially in country music. Bloodshoot Records has seized on this proud tradition with 13 Days of Xmas, a new holiday compilation that includes songs by the Yawpers, Ron …

UPDATE: The Television Academy voted Monday to “expel Harvey Weinstein from the Academy for life” following the dozens of sexual assault accusations against the producer. “The Academy supports those speaking out against harassment in all forms and stands behind those who have been affected by this issue,” the Television Academy …

Donald Trump and Michael Moore engaged in a Twitter fight after the president lashed out at the documentarian’s Trump-centric Broadway show The Terms of My Surrender. On Saturday, Trump tweeted of the show, which ended on October 22nd, “While not at all presidential I must point out that the Sloppy …

Another stretch of Taylor Swift‘s run-up to her sixth album Reputation arrived Friday, when the video for the grinding come-on “…Ready For It?” dropped online. Directed by Swift’s recent filmmaker-of-choice Joseph Kahn, the clip for Reputation‘s opening track features Swift facing off against a cyborg version of herself, with splashy …

A new compilation will spotlight theRolling Stones‘ many performances for the BBC in the early-to-mid–Sixties. One of the highlights ofthe album, titledOn Air, is a version of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” that the band recorded on September 18th, 1965, for the program Saturday Club – mere months after the …

Donald Trump visited the marble halls of the Capitol Tuesday in an attempt to get Senate Republicans on board with his perpetually evolving agenda – but the divisions and bitter infighting consuming the GOP stole the spotlight. Before a closed-door lunch meeting with members of his party, one senior senator …

After setting the Internet on fire with his In-N-Out Burger take last week, Sacramento Kings rookie De’Aaron Fox was involved in some more controversy over the weekend, this time involving his beloved Dragon Ball Z. While Fox appeared to yell “Kameha!” – a reference to the signature attack of Goku …

A wrenching love story, set in Paris in the early 1990s, told against the background of HIV/AIDS activists battling against government and pharmaceutical indifference as they fight for their lives. The group is ACT UP-Paris and the movie is BPM (Beats Per Minute), an impassioned and incendiary cry from the …

Augustin Mawangu Mingiedi, the leader of the Congolese outfit Konono N°1, died Monday after a long, unspecified illness, the band announced on Facebook. He was 56. “Konono No.1’s proud and brave leader Augustin Mawangu Mingiedi has passed away yesterday,” the band said. “He’d been ill for several months. We are …