Investors are seeing red on Monday as the stock market and major indexes continue their downward plunge ahead of Donald Trump’s expected April 2 announcement of a sprawling tariffs package, which the president is billing as “Liberation Day.” Trump is expected to enact a massive economic package that will match …
Read More »Sufjan Stevens Rediscovers the 'Mystery of Love' on Demo From 'Carrie & Lowell' Reissue
Sufjan Stevens dug deep into his archives while reflecting on the anniversary of Carrie & Lowell, his stirring seventh studio album released exactly 10 years ago today. The musician will release an expanded edition of the record on May 30, but his starting point isn’t one of the original 11 …
Read More »John Oliver Hammers Trump Admin Over Signalgate and Deportations: 'Deeply Unserious People'
John Oliver opened Last Week Tonight on Sunday by assailing officials in the Trump administration for Signalgate and its handling of mass deportations, labeling them “ deeply unserious people doing deeply stupid things with massively serious consequences.” ”It’s true, they put a journalist in their group chat,” Oliver said, “something [Jeffrey] …
Read More »Trump Wants to Convince the World That Climate Change Is a Good Thing
Windmills cause cancer. They’re killing birds and whales. Electric vehicles don’t work. Have you heard about the electric sharks? Climate change is a hoax. There are many things Donald Trump has said about climate change and renewable energy that are difficult to make sense of, but Trump’s newest line on …
Read More »Jason Statham Is the Last of the Strong, Silent Types
Action megastar Jason Statham still looks powerful for a man inching toward 60. And the older he gets, the more worn and lived-in his face becomes, like my therapist’s leather couch. So what if he doesn’t take off his shirt as much anymore? He’s built like a wrestler, but graceful, …
Read More »'Doom: The Dark Ages' Feels Like an Xbox 360 Shooter — In a Bad Way
Demons move in waves over cliffs slick with rain, cultists chanting in perfect circles, pentagrams glowing beneath their feet. Small medieval villages are demolished in the wake of hell’s minions pouring forth from their dimension and into the next. But where there are demons, there is the Doom Slayer — …
Read More »Miley Cyrus Raises the Curtain on Pop Opera 'Something Beautiful' With 'Prelude' Video
Miley Cyrus doesn’t make an appearance in the video for her latest release “Prelude” until the final minute. For the first 90 seconds of the visual she directed with Jacob Bixenman and Brendan Walter, the focus is locked on her voice as she delivers a spoken-word soliloquy. Consider the curtain …
Read More »Watch the Who Play 'The Song Is Over' for First Time Ever in Concert
The Who released their landmark LP Who’s Next in 1971, and before the year was out they’d played seven of the nine songs live in concert. The two exceptions were “The Song Is Over” and “Goin’ Mobile.” It took 54 years and more than 1,000 concerts, but they finally broke …
Read More »'I Want to Live in a World Where There's More Magic': Inside the Making of 'Sea Lion Cow'
Ivan Cash knew it was a mad idea: Conceiving, planning, and shooting a music video in 24 hours, especially after the director and his crew had spent the last five days on a grueling commercial shoot in New York City. They’d gone into overtime every day, including the last, a …
Read More »Elon Musk Says He's Giving Out $1 Million Checks to 'Get Attention'
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, delivered $1 million checks to two of his supporters on Sunday evening at his town hall, saying the point of giving out these payments is to “get attention.” “I should say that the reason for the checks is that it’s …
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