Girl power is on display in Halsey‘s video for her new single “Nightmare.” The clip, directed by Hannah Lux Davis and based on a concept by Halsey, features all women, including Cara Delevingne, Suki Waterhouse and Debbie Harry. The song itself reflects the frustration of being female in 2019, constantly …
Read More »See Blues Savior Kingfish's Trippy New Video
Kingfish, the debut album from Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, the 20-year-old blues prodigy who made Rolling Stone’s Hot List last year, is due May 17th, featuring the Buddy Guy duet “Fresh Out.” And while Ingram has already seen multiple clips of his live performances go viral (and appeared on season two …
Read More »The Complicity of Ben Carson
Housing discrimination is how Donald Trump got his start in public racism. If you are unfamiliar with the history, the Department of Justice sued the Trump family real estate management company in 1973 for barring rentals from prospective non-white tenants in New York City. The government found that the Trump …
Read More »See Luke Combs Perform New Drinking Song 'One Too Many'
Luke Combs mixes two of his favorite things — Nineties country and drinking beer — into a new song, “One Too Many.” The North Carolina hitmaker has been testing out the upbeat sing-along on his current Beer Never Broke My Heart Tour, including at his show at Red Rocks Amphitheater …
Read More »Elizabeth Warren Pledges to Hire a Public School Teacher as Her Education Secretary
WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren may be best known for her public flaying of inept financial executives and aggressive policy ideas aimed at the banking industry, but the Massachusetts senator is setting the pace among the 2020 contenders when it comes to education. On Monday, Warren pledged that, if elected president, …
Read More »David Lynch's Festival of Disruption Cancels Brooklyn Benefit Concerts
David Lynch‘s Festival of Disruption has canceled two benefit concerts – scheduled for May 17th and 18th at Brooklyn Steel and set to feature Garbage, Phoebe Bridgers, Mercury Rev and more – due to “circumstances beyond our control,” the David Lynch Foundation and promoters Bowery Presents announced Saturday. A third …
Read More »Tom Green Has Only One Request on New Song: 'I Wanna Be Friends With Drake'
Tom Green tries to convince Drake to drop his “no new friends” edict on his new track, “I Wanna Be Friends With Drake.” The song is an on-point pastiche of Drake at his gauziest, with Green drenching his vocals in autotune as he half-sings, half-raps over a steady beat of …
Read More »'Pasolini' Review: Portrait of an Artist as Boundary-Pushing Provocateur
Abel Ferrara has come not to bury Pier Paolo Pasolini — writer, critic, activist, provocateur, communist, hedonist, out-and-proud homosexual and, last but not least, filmmaker — but to praise him. And, crucially, to commemorate the Italian director via a biopic that somehow doesn’t fall prey to the pitfalls that usually …
Read More »Turn On, Tune In…Work Out?
About a half hour before one of his mile swims near his Bay Area home, entrepreneur and gym rat Jim McAlpine does something seemingly counterproductive: He tosses down a hefty does of THC. “About 10 or 20 minutes in,” he says, “I start to feel it, and I get a …
Read More »NXIVM: Sex, Lies, Porn, Consent at Center of Keith Raniere Trial
The trial for Keith Raniere, the founder and leader of NXIVM who allegedly used the spiritual organization as a front for a “sex cult,” began on Tuesday morning at a federal courthouse in downtown Brooklyn. Raniere — who is charged with seven criminal counts, including racketeering, forced labor conspiracy, wire …
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