Not long after Travis Meadows, an aspiring singer-songwriter, moved to Nashville over a decade ago, he hit a wall. “Every possible crisis a man could have, I had: a marriage crisis, a crisis of faith, a career crisis, all at the same time,” he says. “I crashed and burned, went …
Read More »Can a Young Rustbelt Mayor Prevail in 2020? Mayor Pete Is About to Find Out
WASHINGTON — Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old Democratic wunderkind mayor of South Bend, Indiana, joined the 2020 presidential fray on Wednesday morning. Buttigieg (pronounced BOOT-edge-edge) announced an exploratory committee for president, Pete for America, in the form of a minute-and-a-half long video. Buttigieg’s place at the forefront of a new crop …
Read More »Hear Vic Mensa Cover 'Zombie' Honoring Cranberries' Singer Dolores O'Riordan
The Cranberries’ lead singer Dolores O’Riordan died one year ago this week. In memory of their departed band member, The Cranberries’ announced a new album, which will be their final release as a band, along with a new single called “All Over Now.” Late on Tuesday afternoon, Vic Mensa also …
Read More »How Historian Jill Lepore Found a Whole New Story to Tell About American History
Harvard historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore’s latest book, These Truths: a History of the United States, is an epic, sweeping and often disquieting look at the nation’s past. The 800-page opus, starting in the 1500s and moving along briskly to Donald Trump, also serves as a liberal cri …
Read More »'Destroyer' Review: Pulpy Cop Thriller Is Pure Nicole Kidman Unleashed
Nicole Kidman strips away every trace of star glamour to play Erin Bell, an LAPD detective and boozy burnout trying to close the books on the cold case that ruined her life 17 years ago. The star and director Karyn Kusama (Girlfight, Jennifer’s Body) take no shortcuts to the dark …
Read More »Flashback: Stevie Nicks Launches Solo Career With 'Edge of Seventeen'
Earlier this month, Stevie Nicks learned that she was going to become the first woman ever inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on two occasions. “My biggest hope is that I have opened the door due to the fact that there’s 22 men who have gone in …
Read More »Kanye West Is Back to Saying Whatever it Takes to Get Your Attention on New XXXTentacion Song
Kanye West, the part-time musician and full-time provocateur, has spent the entirety of 2018 tearing down any sense of goodwill he still possessed in order to spite an amorphous set of enemies. His verse on XXXTentacion‘s “One Minute” is the latest example of a man fully aware of what he’s …
Read More »Watch Kodak Black's Travis Scott-Directed 'Zeze' Video
Kodak Black has dropped the new video for his hit single “Zeze” featuring Travis Scott and Migos‘ Offset. Scott himself directed the visual, which offers a clever behind-the-scenes look at how music videos are made. After the pre-video request from Kodak Black’s label that the “Zeze” video include “no guns, …
Read More »Facebook Calls Damning Report About Its Response to Election Meddling 'Unfair'
The New York Times on Wednesday published a bombshell report about Facebook‘s war against its critics. It was pretty damning. According to the Times, Facebook knew in 2016 that Russia was using its platform to influence the election, did not take down inflammatory posts from Trump about banning Muslim immigrants …
Read More »America Isn't Ready for Asian Rappers. They're Taking Over Anyway
Nobody in the crowd at 88rising‘s early October show in New York City, an unapologetic riot on the brand-new open-air rooftop at Pier 17, is confused about where they are and what they’re doing there — except the security staff, who wander around most of the night in abject confusion. …
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