After being axed ahead of its release last fall, the controversial thriller The Hunt has received a new trailer and will finally be released in theaters March 13th. The film centers around 12 strangers from working-class and/or Southern communities who are referred to as “deplorables,” kidnapped and forced to partake …
Read More »RS Charts: Lil Wayne Surges to Top of Artists 500 Chart
Lil Wayne flew to the top of the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart following the release of his new album, Funeral. After hovering at Number 39 last week with 27.9 million streams, Weezy racked up 147.9 million streams for the week of January 31st through February 6th. Funeral also topped …
Read More »Major League Baseball Halts Roger Waters Ads After Advocacy Group's Criticism
Major League Baseball said they would stop running promotions for Roger Waters’ upcoming North American tour following criticism from Jewish advocacy groups. As part of an ad buy by AEG/Concerts West, advertisements for tickets to Waters’ This Is Not a Drill trek were shown on MLB platforms. This drew the …
Read More »Midland Time Travel to a Honky-Tonk's Heyday on New Live Album
When Midland announced that they would be playing a one-off show at the Palomino in October 2019, the North Hollywood venue hadn’t been operational for nearly 25 years. Though the original structure is still standing, the former country-music hot spot on Lankershim Boulevard now serves as a rentable banquet space …
Read More »Black Midi: Meet England's Hot New Noise-Rock Weirdos
The phrases “avant-garde improvisational noise rock” and “hot new buzz band” don’t often show up next to each other in the same sentence. But they’re hard to avoid when discussing London’s Black Midi, an adventurous group that’s somehow broken through over the last couple years to become one of the …
Read More »5 Seconds of Summer Announce New Album 'Calm,' Drop 'No Shame'
5 Seconds of Summer have announced their fourth studio album, Calm, set for release on March 27th via Interscope Records. On Wednesday the band dropped their latest track from the LP, “No Shame,” following previous singles “Easier” and “Teeth.” “For a band to make it to four albums is no small …
Read More »'Locke & Key' Review: Haunted by the Ghosts of Other Shows
In an early episode of Netflix‘s new supernatural thriller Locke & Key, teen heroine Kinsey Locke (Emilia Jones) is invited by her new friend Scot (Petrice Jones) to see a Band of Horses tribute act, one of several cover bands operating in Matheson, the remote New England coastal town where …
Read More »Aretha Franklin's Niece Resigns as Estate Executor
Aretha Franklin’s niece, Sabrina Owens, has resigned as executor of the late soul singer’s estate amid mounting family tensions, the Detroit Free Press reports. Owens announced her decision in court filings last week, writing: “Given my aunt’s love of family and desire for privacy, this is not what she would …
Read More »Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib Boos Hillary Clinton During Bernie Sanders Rally
Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) encouraged a crowd to continue booing Hillary Clinton at a Bernie Sanders rally in Iowa on Friday. While the event’s moderator began mentioning one of Clinton’s recent attacks against Sanders, the crowd started to boo. The moderator then tried to quell the audience’s reaction, saying …
Read More »Bernie Sanders Leads Trump, All 2020 Candidates in Donations From Active-Duty Troops
No other 2020 candidate for president, including Donald Trump, can come close to matching Bernie Sanders’ level of support among members of the U.S. military, to go by the most recent campaign finance data from the Federal Election Commission. Soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines have donated a total of $185,625 …
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