Andrew Scott goes searching for flickers of the past at the bottom of a bottle and the end of a cigarette in the music video for “People Watching,” the title track on Sam Fender‘s forthcoming third studio album. In the Stuart A. McIntyre-directed clip, the Irish actor wakes up in …
Read More »Jimmy Kimmel Douses Trump's Claim Military 'Turned On' California's Water
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel dampened claims by President Donald Trump that the U.S. military entered California to release a large amount of water from the northern part of the state to fight the Los Angeles fires. In a Monday post on Truth Social, Trump wrote: “The United States Military …
Read More »Trump Hates the Constitution
Let’s be clear up front: Donald Trump doesn’t care one iota about the Constitution. I wrote about it for Rolling Stone before the 2016 election, laying out how he had already demonstrated during his first real campaign that he didn’t believe “core principles and values” of the nation’s founding document. …
Read More »Hear Erykah Badu Ad Lib on Jamie XX's New Single 'F.U.'
Jamie xx, known for adding genre-jumping samples to his electronic tracks, announced the release of “F.U.,” a techno-warped single featuring Erykah Badu. Badu offers a handful of expletives in the opening notes, which originates from an ad-libbed performance during a Primavera Sound afterparty in 2019. Both Jamie xx and Badu …
Read More »Women Remain Underrepresented in Music Industry, USC Annenberg Report Finds
The music business is still a boys’ club, according to a report breaking down the gender makeup on the credits for many of last year’s biggest songs. The University of Southern California’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative released its annual “Inclusion in the Recording Studio” report on Wednesday, reflecting an industry stagnant …
Read More »Deafheaven Announce 2025 North American Tour
Deafheaven are hitting the road. The metal band announced a 25-date North America tour on Wednesday, separate from a handful of festival appearances they have coming up in the U.K. and Europe as well. Deafheaven will kick off the tour in Los Angeles at the Belasco on April, hitting much …
Read More »Trump's First 10 Days Back in Power Were Uniquely Depraved. Don't Get Numb To It
Late last year, as Donald Trump and his transition staff crafted executive orders, pardons, and a multi-front policy blitz designed to create “shock and awe” at the dawn of his second term in the White House, they were confident that the American people would ultimately let them get away with …
Read More »Michael Fanone Has a Lot to Say About the Jan. 6 Pardons — Including His Own
On Jan. 20, some time between the hour when he learned that Joe Biden had preemptively pardoned him for testifying before the Jan. 6 committee and the hour when he learned that Donald Trump had pardoned the men who violently attacked him on Jan. 6, Michael Fanone went to look …
Read More »'Peter Hujar's Day' Is the Modest Sleeper Hit of Sundance 2025
Sundance 2025 will be remembered as what’s probably the penultimate year that film festival calls Park City home, as well as the edition that gave us a body-horror rom-com (IRL couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco’s gloriously disgusting Together), an introduction to a major new triple-threat talent (Eva Victor’s Sorry, …
Read More »Selfies and a Standing Ovation: Sermon Taking on Trump Draws Supporters to D.C. Cathedral
There was a special buzz in the air at the Washington National Cathedral this past Sunday. It was the first Sunday following the sermon heard around the world, when Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde became a viral phenomenon for “preaching truth to power” at the prayer service for the nation. On …
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