The top drug dealer convicted in the fatal fentanyl overdose of rapper Mac Miller was sentenced to 17 and a half years in federal prison Monday. The judge rejected his plea deal as too lenient after he continued to sell counterfeit oxycodone pills even after the rapper’s untimely demise in …
Read More »High-Ranking Republican Pushes 'Great Replacement' Rhetoric Two Days After White Supremacist Mass Shooting
Elise Stefanik is the third-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives. She is a member of the party’s leadership, in other words, elevated last year by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. She’s also one of a growing contingent of conservatives who have brushed up against the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, a …
Read More »Kehlani Schedules Extensive North American Tour Supporting 'Blue Water Road'
Kehlani is hitting the road for an extensive, 28-city tour for the singer’s recently released third studio album, Blue Water Road. Kehlani will perform the tour’s opening show on July 30 at Raleigh, North Carolina’s Red Hat Amphitheater before wrapping in the fall with a final show at Honolulu, Hawaii’s …
Read More »Katherine Massey, Who Was a 'Powerful Voice' for Civil Rights, Killed by Buffalo Shooter
Katherine “Kat” Massey was a strong advocate for civil rights and education for Buffalo‘s Black community. On Saturday,white supremacist teenager Payton Gendron, who has been identified as the alleged shooter, killed her and nine otherswhile they shopped in a supermarket in their predominantly Black neighborhood. It was thedeadliest mass shootingof …
Read More »Ricky Gardiner, David Bowie and Iggy Pop's Berlin-Era Guitarist, Dead at 73
Ricky Gardiner, the guitarist who played stinging, obtuse leads throughout Davie Bowie’s iconicLowand Iggy Pop‘s rowdyLust for Life, has died at age 73. Tony Visconti, who co-producedLow, reported the newson Facebook, saying that Gardiner’s wife, Virginia, had notified him of the guitarist’s death. Gardiner had been battling Parkinson’s at the …
Read More »Gorillaz Plot 2022 North American Tour
Gorillaz have announced a North American tour — their first since 2018 — which will kick off this fall. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time. Damon Albarn and Company’s 22-date trek launches in Vancouver at Rogers Arena and culminates at FTXArena in Miami on Oct. 23. …
Read More »It's Not Just the Barfights. Two Musicians Also Say Ezra Miller 'Stole' Their Music
When Ezra Miller hit up music producer Oliver Ignatius to help them work on a new musical project in February, Ignatius wasn’t immediately enticed. After all, he had a bunch of sessions booked for the next few months at his Holy Fang Studios in New York.But he knew Miller since …
Read More »Following Your Passion at 65
A few months ago, I became 65 — I, who still thinks and acts like a person in their 20s, am now a senior citizen. All of a sudden, I became eligible for some of the benefits hitting that landmark birthday: medicare, discounts for things like mass transit, rent, the …
Read More »Trump Says Scandal-Ridden Madison Cawthorn Should Get 'Second Chance'
One day before voters in North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District head to the polls in a crowded GOP primary, former President Donald Trump reiterated his support for scandal-ridden incumbent Madison Cawthorn. The show of support comes a week after Rolling Stone reported that Trump has been “totally weirded out” by …
Read More »Young Thug Carried the Weight of Atlanta on His Shoulders. Now, It Could Crush Him
The once-triumphant world of Atlanta hip-hop is in a state of emergency. Just days after a far-reaching, 56-count indictment named Young Thug, Gunna, and more than two dozen other artists from YSL’s roster as alleged conspirators in a well-organized criminal organization, the label’s up-and-coming signee Lil Keed passed away on …
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