MGMT have released the new music video for “Bubblegum Dog,” the new single from their upcoming album, Loss of Life. The Tom Scharpling and Julia Vickerman-directed visual pays tribute to alternative-rock videos from the Nineties. The humorous clip finds Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser hanging by a fake fire, donning …
Read More »Conspiracy Kingpin Shows Twitter Is a Safe Space for Antisemitism
Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino has committed the platform to “combat antisemitism,” insisting “there’s absolutely no place for it anywhere in the world.” But this supposed crackdown on hate is being undermined by the conspiracy theorist and far-right broadcaster Stew Peters, who was reinstated to the platform late last year. Peters …
Read More »Usher Joins Remix of Jung Kook's 'Standing Next to You'
The ARMY has a holiday gift to look forward to. Big Hit Music, which represents BTS, announced a new remix of Jung Kook‘s “Standing Next to You” with a feature from Usher, due out on Friday. “Featuring the U.S.-based R&B artist Usher, this remix adds a velvety touch to the …
Read More »Bad Bunny's 'Un Verano Sin Ti' Was the Top Album of the Year on Spotify. Again
Spotify Wrapped is here — and with the platform’s analysis of users’ personal listening habits also comes a breakdown of the top-played music of the year globally. Taylor Swift earned the crown of the most-streamed artist this year, dethroning Bad Bunny, who had the most streams for three consecutive years. …
Read More »The Dashing Italian Surgeon Who Seduced a Reporter to Mask His Bloody Crimes
It’s hard to keep track of all the ethical violations depicted in Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife, the new three-part Netflix docuseries whose title suggests a straight-to-cable Nineties TV movie. Some of the sins here on display are, literally, mortal: Paolo Macchiarini, an apparent sociopath, a definite conman, and, …
Read More »Trump Demands Government Punish MSNBC for Not Being Nice to Him
Former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social late Tuesday night to demand that the government punish MSNBC for their critical coverage of him. Trump wrote that “MSNBC (MSDNC) uses FREE government approved airwaves, and yet it is nothing but a 24 hour hit job on Donald J. Trump and …
Read More »Trap God, Grammy King: Gucci Mane and Jon Batiste Tell All
O ne has two degrees from Juilliard, and the other went straight from the streets of Atlanta to the studio, where he helped invent trap as we know it. They come from wildly different musical worlds, but Jon Batiste and Gucci Mane found plenty of common ground when they came …
Read More »'May December': Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore's Twisted Tabloid Scandal
Very early on in Todd Haynes‘ May December, Julianne Moore is prepping for a BBQ. Her character, Gracie, is a suburban mom in Savannah, Georgia, idly chatting to a neighbor in a spacious, tastefully decorated kitchen. Her husband wanders through, grabbing a beer before going back outside to man the …
Read More »Jacob Collier Builds Support System With Shawn Mendes and Stormzy in 'Witness Me' Video
A choir of 5,000 voices forms the foundation of the support system Jacob Collier is building with Shawn Mendes and Stormzy on his latest single, “Witness Me,” which also features Kirk Franklin. In the newly released music video for the record, the trio leans into earnest humility in a home …
Read More »The Jesus and Mary Chain Embrace 'No Rules' on New Song 'Jamcod'
Are you ready to O.D. on Jesus and Mary Chain? The group’s latest single, “jamcod,” which will appear on their upcoming Glasgow Eyes LP, finds frontman Jim Reid singing, “Tears are what you want, tears are what you got,” before the band’s trademark noise, led by Jim’s brother William’s guitar, …
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