Since 1969, pioneering country group Alabama have been delivering an influential brand of high-energy performances that have culminated in numerous Entertainer of the Year honors and membership in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Now, the trio of Randy Owen, Jeff Cook and Teddy Gentry have added nearly 30 additional …
Read More »British Outfit Idles Return With Scathing New Song 'Mercedes Marxist'
British punks Idles unveiled a menacing new song, “Mercedes Marxist,” along with announcing a string of North American concerts this October. “Mercedes Marxist” marks Idles’ first new song since their 2018 album, Joy as an Act of Resistance, thought frontman Joe Talbot noted on Instagram that the song was actually …
Read More »Blink-182, Lil Wayne Announce Co-Headlining Summer Tour
An unlikely pair of music acts – Blink-182 and Lil Wayne – will be hitting the road together this summer. The two acts will lead a co-headlining tour through North America, with Welsh punk band Neck Deep as openers. The tour will kick off June 27th in Columbus, Ohio, and …
Read More »John Cameron Mitchell and Glenn Close on New Podcast 'Anthem: Homunculus'
To describe Anthem: Homunculus as a “podcast musical” really doesn’t begin to do it justice. In reality, it’s an unclassifiable omnibus of theater, music and strange narratives written by John Cameron Mitchell and Bryan Weller that translates to over six hours of storytelling packaged in 10 episodes, with 31 songs …
Read More »Hear Savages Singer Jehnny Beth's New Song 'Let It Out' From Chelsea Manning Doc
Savages singer Jehnny Beth has shared her atmospheric new song “Let It Out,” a track off Beth and producer Johnny Hostile’s soundtrack for the upcoming Chelsea Manning documentary XY Chelsea. “It is about being inside Chelsea’s head at the moment she decides she won’t be hiding anymore,” Beth and Hostile …
Read More »Man Gets No Prison Time For Torturing Teenage Girl, Holding Her In a Dog Cage
A 33-year-old Georgia man will serve no prison time after keeping a teenage girl in captivity for a year, imprisoning her in a dog cage and allegedly forcing her to have sex with him against her will. On Thursday, Michael Wysolovski pleaded guilty to first-degree cruelty to children and interstate …
Read More »Billboard Music Awards 2019: BTS, Halsey Perform Rousing 'Boy With Luv'
BTS and Halsey performed their hit collaboration “Boy With Luv” at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas on Wednesday. The appearance, which marked their first live performance of the song, received one of the loudest receptions of the night, with the audience screaming along to the lyrics. Dapperly dressed, …
Read More »Geto Boys' Bushwick Bill Reveals Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis
Bushwick Bill, a founding member of the Houston hip-hop group Geto Boys, revealed he is battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer. The rapper discussed his cancer fight in an interview with TMZ where Bushwick Bill, born Richard Shaw, said doctors initially were monitoring what they believed was a benign mass. “‘We …
Read More »John Fogerty on Woodstock 50: 'There Was Some Shakiness to This Whole Thing'
John Fogerty found out there may not be a Woodstock 50 at the same time most people did — when Dentsu, the financial backer for the festival, announced on Monday that they were canceling the event. (Woodstock 50 LLC denied the shutdown, saying in a statement Monday night that they …
Read More »After California Synagogue Shooting, 8Chan Is Back In the Spotlight
On Saturday, news broke that a gunman had opened fire at the Chabad of Poway synagogue in Poway, a suburb of San Diego, California. One woman, Lori Gilbert Kaye, was killed in the shooting after leaping in front of the congregation’s rabbi to protect him from gunfire; the rabbi and …
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