It’s Dolly Parton‘s 77th birthday, and she’s celebrating in true country icon fashion — sharing a new song with an excessively long title that first came to her in a dream. “Don’t Make Me Have to Come Down There” is what she says God warned from the top of a …
Read More »100 Gecs Map Out North American Tour in Support of '10,000 Gecs'
100 Gecs will hit the road this spring for a six-week North American tour in support of the hyperpop duo’s upcoming LP 10,000 Gecs. The trek kicks off April 4 in San Jose and finds the band circling the U.S. over the course of 31 shows before winding back in …
Read More »He Was Convicted of a 12-Year-Old's Murder. Will a Retrial Prove His Innocence?
A retrial has begun in the harrowing case of the 1994 rape and murder of 12-year-old Josette Wright in New York’s Hudson River Valley. In 1997, two men who’d been teenagers at the time of the crime were convicted in separate trials. They were each sentenced to 25 years to …
Read More »Robert Pattinson Says 'Insidious' Body Expectations Led Him to Only Eat Potatoes for Two Weeks
Robert Pattinson‘s relationship with food is a weird one. Early in the pandemic, he almost blew up a microwave trying to invent a pasta burger in the middle of an interview. A few years before that, he wrote and starred in a short film about a man’s relentless search for …
Read More »The Kid Laroi Reflects on His Past Mistakes in Deeply Personal Single 'I Can't Go Back to the Way It Was (Intro)'
The Kid Laroi is reflecting on the past and is ready to enter a new era of music with Thursday’s release of “I Can’t Go Back to the Way It Was (Intro),” the first single ahead of his album, The First Time. The dark video, directed by Julian Klincewicz, sees …
Read More »Hugh Jackman's 'The Son' Is Weighed Down by Its Cringe Factor
Florian Zeller’s The Father, released in 2020, attempted to understand an octogenarian man’s dementia from a first-person perspective, allowing the confusing mix of memory and present-tense, of people and places, to become the story. The Son, Zeller’s new movie, was similarly adapted from a work that the filmmaker and playwright …
Read More »Zach Bryan Flips Off Ticketmaster, Aims to Shut Down Scalpers on New Summer Tour
As he promised late last year, Zach Bryan will be largely Ticketmaster-free on a sprawling tour of North America this summer. The singer-songwriter just announced dates for his headlining Burn Burn Burn American Tour 2023, which gets underway May 10 in Charlottesville, Virginia. “I’ve tried my best to make tickets …
Read More »At 80, John Cale Is Still Inventing His Future and Wrestling With His Past
This year, John Cale will turn 81. In the decades since he co-founded the Velvet Underground with Lou Reed in the mid-1960s, the adventurous Welsh singer-songwriter, producer, and composer has had a historic, if at times intentionally errant, run. Along with his own albums (which include high points like 1973’s …
Read More »How to Market Your Cannabis Consumption Lounge
Cannabis consumption lounges, also known as social consumption lounges, are becoming the talk of the industry. Like hookah lounges, but for cannabis, consumption lounges are retail lounges that allow on-site consumption, like smoking, vaping, ingesting edibles and so on. Similar to bars and hookah lounges, U.S. cannabis consumption lounges must …
Read More »Trump Confused Rape Accuser for Ex-Wife During Deposition
Former President Donald Trump confused author E. Jean Carroll with his second wife Marla Maples during a deposition for the sexual assault case Carroll brought against Trump. According to a report from The Washington Post, Trump, who has long insisted Carroll is not his “type,” mistook his accuser for his …
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