Laura Jane Grace makes an appeal to your ears — the two most important holes in your head, at least for her purposes — with the short-and-giddy title track of her upcoming album, Hole in My Head. “You can try to outrun all the pain you come from,” she sings …
Read More »Researcher Discovers Identity of 'Stick Man' on 'Led Zeppelin IV' Cover a Half-Century Later
A half-century rock mystery has finally been solved as researchers have discovered the identity of the man on the cover of Led Zeppelin’s IV. As the story goes, singer Robert Plant discovered the photo of the elderly man carrying a bushel of twigs on his back in an antique shop. …
Read More »The 'Mean Girls' Musical Seems to Forget It's a Musical in First Trailer
Mean Girls is headed back to movie theaters in musical form — not that you’d really get that from the highly-anticipated film’s first trailer. Taking the two-minute clip at face value, you’d more or less expect a full-on Mean Girls remake for Gen Z, all the classic bits, quips, and …
Read More »2023 CMA Awards: The Complete Winners List
Jelly Roll was named New Artist of the Year at the 57th annual CMA Awards. “Most importantly there is something poetic about a 39-year-old man winning New Artist of the Year,” Jelly Roll hollered from the stage. “Keep going, baby! Success is on the other side of it.” But the …
Read More »'Escaping Twin Flames': How to Break Up With an Online Dating Cult
Every now and then a subject comes along that seemed compelling enough to the right decision-makers to somehow become the focus of multiple projects. Seeing the competition on the horizon, producers and distributors press their pedal to the metal instead of ceding ground. This is how we end up with …
Read More »The Shocking Loss and Unbreakable Bond Behind Sleater-Kinney's New Album
“I honestly just needed to hear Corin sing.” Carrie Brownstein was headed into a studio in Los Angeles last fall when her friend and longtime Sleater-Kinney bandmate Corin Tucker called to give her the name and number of someone at the U.S. Embassy in Italy. The embassy had been urgently …
Read More »Inside Team Trump's Very Gross Plans to Keep Humiliating DeSantis
In the time since Ron DeSantis launched his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has only increased his wide national and state primary polling leads over the Florida governor. With DeSantis 2024 flailing for months, it would perhaps seem natural for the former president to now ease up a bit on thrashing …
Read More »How David Fincher Turned 'The Killer' Into a Mean, Lean Punch to the Gut
The man is a consummate professional. In the outside world, he could be anyone — just another ridiculous looking dude somewhere between the ages of 32 and 48, the everyguy in line behind you at an Ace Hardware store or in front of you at McDonald’s. But sitting here, in …
Read More »Maybe Stealing Women's Rights Wasn't the Best Election Plan
It’s abortion, stupid. Across the country on Tuesday night, the fight to retain or regain reproductive rights remained the defining issue driving voters to the polls. In deep red Ohio — a state with a Republican governor and legislature that Donald Trump won twice —voters turned out in droves to …
Read More »Timbaland Apologizes After Saying Justin Timberlake Should Have 'Put a Muzzle' on Britney Spears
Timbaland has apologized after recently saying that his frequent collaborator Justin Timberlake “should have put a muzzle” on his ex Britney Spears. During a live interview with 9th Wonder at the Kennedy Center in late October, Timbaland was asked about the renewed interest toward their duo’s song “Cry Me a …
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