Charli XCX embraces transformation in the new music video for her Crash track, “Used to Know.” “Used to Know,” with its sample of the Robin S. house classic “Show Me Love,” is an anthem for post break-up freedom, and the clip finds Charli fully embracing that liberation. The clip follows …
Read More »J.D. Vance Repeatedly Cited Racism as Reason Trump Drew So Much Support in 2016
It’s no secret that J.D. Vance, the Ohio Senate candidate Trump reportedly plans to endorse, wasn’t always a huge fan of the former president. His past objections to Trump went beyond what many remembered, however, according to new clips unearthed by CNN on Friday. Vance, who has been groveling for …
Read More »Anitta's 'Versions of Me' Is a Tirelessly Bewitching Global Dance-Floor Experience
Are you a part of Anitta’s Algorithm Nation? OnVersions of Me, a dazzling omnibus of pop digitalia, the 29-year-old Brazilian singer-MC-dancer goes door-to-door, trying to unite the people behind her surging campaign for Global Dance-Floor Booty Inspector. Burning brightest when micromanaging every market-tested and quantized musical detail with blissfully canny …
Read More »Ingrid Andress Wonders if She's a 'Good Person' in New Song
Ingrid Andress performs an intense spiritual and moral inventory in her new song “Good Person,” released with a video on Friday. The ballad co-written by Andress with Steph Jones and Sam Ellis is the first single from the “More Hearts Than Mine” singer’s follow-up to her debut album Lady Like. …
Read More »Culture Drip Feed: How to Redefine Hospitality Work Culture from the Top-Down
Through a perfect storm of intensity and the excessive number of hours hospitality staff usually work, culture “drip feed” — when culture comes from the top-down — generates a work environment similar to a pressure cooker. This causes a ripple effect that you don’t generally see in a company outside …
Read More »Why it's Harder Than Ever to Be a Young Band on the Road
“I got a spreadsheet for you!” drummer/co-vocalist Nadirah “Nadi” McGill of Minneapolis’ rock group Gully Boys tells Rolling Stone. The indie band is in Los Angeles, in the middle of a 24-date tour that includes stops at Austin’s South by Southwest festival and Boise’s Treefort Music Fest. While McGill pulls …
Read More »Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani Are the Worst Heterosexuals Ever
Throughout history, there have been many heterosexuals who have sullied the good name of penis-in-vagina intercourse. There’s Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, Tom Cruise and basically anyone he’s dated at any given time. Yet no heterosexual couple has arguably done so much harm in concert — …
Read More »Metallica's Kirk Hammett Soundtracks a Six-String Shootout on New Song 'High Plains Drifter'
Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett does some vintage guitar slinging on his new solo song, “High Plains Drifter.” Borrowing its title from the 1973 Clint Eastwood-starring Western of the same name, “High Plains Drifter” begins with the lonesome pluck of a guitar then expands with horns, strings, piano, and marching drums. …
Read More »Norah Jones Unearths Unreleased Ray Charles Cover 'Hallelujah, I Love Him So'
Norah Jones has unearthed a 22-year-old recording of “Hallelujah, I Love Him So,” her take on Ray Charles‘ classic 1959 single “Hallelujah, I Love Her So.” The recording is one of 22 previously unreleased tracks set to appear on the 20th anniversary reissue of the singer’s Grammy-winning debut Come Away …
Read More »'They Were Killed For Us': Ukrainians Bury Their Dead — and Accuse Russian Army of Mass Murder
BUCHA, Ukraine — Three hundred people follow the three coffins down the streets of the small Ukrainian village. Olga, Ihor, and Sashko Sukhenko’s funeral procession winds through the village of Motyzhyn, 27 miles from Kyiv. Olga Sukhenko had been elected the head woman of the village for the past 14 …
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