Demi Lovato opened up about how she came to experiment with opiates as a teenager and described how her management team exacerbated her eating disorder in a new interview on the Spotify podcast Call Her Daddy. Lovato — who just released a new album, Holy Fvck — explained that she …
Read More »Caitlin Rose Previews First Album in Nearly 10 Years With 'Black Obsidian'
Caitlin Rose will release the long-awaited follow-up to 2013’s The Stand-In later this year. The new project, titled Cazimi, will be released Nov. 18 via Missing Piece Records and includes the atmospheric lead single “Black Obsidian.” A dramatic mix of baritone guitar and glockenspiel introduces “Black Obsidian,” in which Rose …
Read More »Remote Vs. In-Person Work From a Former Workspace Entrepreneur
In 2021, I started a new company that was fully remote. This was a major shift for me, having built a few companies throughout my career that were all brick-and-mortar. In 2011, I even created a shared workspace called Alley, which went national with Verizon in 2017. That’s right, I …
Read More »Math-Metal Titans Botch Reunite for First Song in 20 Years
Botch, the influential yet long-defunct math-metal group from Tacoma, Washington, have reunited to record a new song for an upcoming reissue of their last album, We Are the Romans. “One Twenty Two” will be available on the upcoming CD and double-vinyl editions of the album due out Nov. 4 via …
Read More »Twitter, Facebook Take Down 'Pro-Western' Accounts Over 'Deceptive Tactics'
Twitter and Facebook were among the social networks to suspend a series of pro-U.S. accounts that targeted Asian and Middle Eastern users, an action believed to be the first time the social media companies have blocked accounts for promoting pro-Western interests. The joint study by Graphika and the Stanford Internet …
Read More »Demi Lovato's '29' Inspires TikTokers to Call Out Much Older Exes
Don’t Let This Flop is released Wednesdays on all audio streaming platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Stitcher and more One thing about Demi Lovato is they’ve always maintained brutal honesty in their music. Their latest album Holy Fvck maintains that tradition, while seeing Lovato return to the rock …
Read More »Gogol Bordello Plays Secret Show for Ukrainian Soldiers
Gogol Bordello, the punk group led by Kyiv-born singer Eugene Hütz, played a secret show for an audience of Ukrainian soldiers last week. Vice reports that the unannounced concert took place at an undisclosed location near the frontlines of the Russian invasion. About 50 soldiers witnessed the gig, including an …
Read More »Ron DeSantis' Crusade to Take Over Schools Scores a Big Win
SARASOTA, Florida —Bridget Ziegler hadn’t yet heard from Gov. Ron DeSantis after she won reelection to the Sarasota County school board race on Tuesday night, but she kept her phone close, just in case she did. Standing outside her victory party at a strip mall bar, her eyes flicked toward …
Read More »Harry Styles Got All of Madison Square Garden to Sing 'Happy Birthday' to James Corden
Harry Styles got all of Madison Square Garden to wish James Corden a happy birthday during his third of 15 shows in New York City. Corden shared a video of the moment on Instagram yesterday, Aug. 23. In the clip, Styles stops the show and says, “There is a friend …
Read More »Blondie Were New York Punk's Pop Masters. They're Still Ahead of Their Time
In the late Seventies, Blondie were the most widely mocked band of CBGB’s first punk wave — too pop, not rigorous enough. But after they hit Number One in early 1979 with “Heart of Glass,” their pasticheurs-and-proud stance not only made their string of hits a rare shot of excitement …
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