One week before Alynda Segarra’s father died, he mailed them a package. It was a box of all the music Segarra had sent him over the span of nearly 20 years, ever since they’d left their childhood home in the Bronx to travel the country. Everything they’d recorded, from burned …
Read More »Carly Pearce Announces New Album 'Hummingbird' by Dropping the Swooning Title Track
Carly Pearce has shared her new single “Hummingbird,” the title track of her upcoming album, due out this summer. “When I wrote this song, I knew I wanted this to be the title of the album,” Pearce said in a statement. “This song plays on my bluegrass roots but also …
Read More »Karol G's Private Jet Makes Emergency Landing in Los Angeles
Shortly after departing from Burbank Airport, Karol G‘s private jet made an emergency landing in Los Angeles. With 16 passengers on board, the plane’s pilot reported that there was smoke filling the cockpit and rerouted to Van Nuys Airport, according to ABC 7. Once safely grounded, Karol G and the …
Read More »Indiana's Citizen Snitch Website Is Pissing Off the Educators It's Targeting
When Indiana’s Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita launched Eyes on Education — an official state website that he says seeks to expose “socialist indoctrination” of students and “trans-sanity” in schools — educators targeted by the site were caught completely off guard. Paul White is the superintendent of New Prairie United …
Read More »Elon Musk Sues OpenAI, Sam Altman for Making Money Over Benefitting Humanity
Elon Musk accused Sam Altman and OpenAI of pursuing profit over bettering humanity in a new breach of contract lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court yesterday, Feb. 29. Musk helped Altman found OpenAI as a non-profit in 2015 (Musk left the board of directors in 2018 and no longer …
Read More »Wolves of Glendale Bring Joy to Audiences, One 'Idiotic' Song at a Time
T he first time Ethan Edenburg, Eric Jackowitz, and Tom McGovern hung out, they wrote a song. It was March 2022, and they were in Los Angeles, toying around with their instruments, when the conversation turned to what it would be like to have a midlife crisis while visiting Las …
Read More »How Galantis and David Guetta Met Their Match With 5 Seconds of Summer on 'Lighter'
The best song Christian Karlsson has ever made could be sitting on a hard drive somewhere, unfinished and completely forgotten by the producer and DJ who performs as Galantis. It’s been four years since his last album, Church, and in that time he’s picked up and put down hundreds of …
Read More »Southern Anti-Trans Laws Are Uprooting Families — And Leaving Them With Impossible Choices
In February 2023, Chrissie and Daniel took their son, who goes by the nickname Z, for his annual check-in with his doctor for gender-affirming care. In the months leading up to the appointment, tension had been building in their house. Tennessee’s Legislature had introduced SB0001, which would ban gender-affirming care …
Read More »'Problemista' Reminds You Why Tilda Swinton Is God
You don’t have to work in media or the fashion industry to know a Miranda Priestly type. You don’t need to be a fairy princess to have encountered a Maleficent or two in your day. And you don’t need to be familiar with the NYC art world — or for …
Read More »Bruce Dickinson, Singer and Sword Master, on Why 'Life Is Better Than All Other Options'
B ruce Dickinson is brandishing a sword in an attack stance with a smile on his face. “This is super, super light,” he says. “It’s really usable.” Luckily for everyone within striking distance, the Iron Maiden frontman knows the weapon is too precious for mere murder, since the blade is …
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