High Water Festival is back in Charleston for its seventh year. On Tuesday, the festival announced that Lord Huron, Mt. Joy, Arcade Fire, and Counting Crows will headline next year’s festival, scheduled for April 26 and 27 in South Carolina’s Riverfront Park. Lord Huron and Mt. Joy will headline the …
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Few artists debut with a shout-out from the World Health Organization, but Big Ocean isn’t your ordinary K-pop group. When they launched their career almost seven months ago on Korea’s Day of People with Disabilities, Hyunjin, Chanyeon, and Jiseok made history as the first deaf K-pop group. On a late …
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Young Thug is free — sort of. Last week, the Atlanta-born rapper accepted a plea deal in the sprawling RICO case against him and associates of his YSL record label. As part of the plea, he agreed to 15 years of probation with 20 years of prison time backloaded, meaning …
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About six years ago, one Alex Cross passed the torch to another. In 2018, Aldis Hodge had the title role in the film Brian Banks, about a real-life star football player who was falsely accused of rape in high school and tried to make it to the NFL after he …
Read More »How America Heard the Beatles
Strange but true: The Beatles’ American record company decided not to release their albums. Instead, Capitol chopped them up to generate more product. Nobody at the label had any idea that future generations would revere these records as sacred artistic units. No, Capitol just wanted to squeeze more funny paper …
Read More »Trump's Victory Was a Triumph for America's 'Boring Psycho' Elites
Do not let anyone fool you or tell you anything different: The elites won the 2024 United States presidential election. For the past two years that this reporter has covered Donald Trump’s now-successful campaign to reconquer power and stay out of prison, there has been one line of dialogue from …
Read More »Noel Gallagher to Unveil Six-Hour Version of Oasis' 'Champagne Supernova'
Noel Gallagher has created a new version of Oasis‘ 1995 hit “Champagne Supernova.” The six-hour, “ambient mixed” rendition will be played in London’s National Portrait Gallery as part of the upcoming Zoë Law: Legends exhibition, which features a portrait of Gallagher. The photograph of Gallagher was taken by Zoë Law …
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Jim Gaffigan‘s time embodying Tim Walz on Saturday Night Live came to an end last week when Kamala Harris lost the election to Donald Trump. But the comedian confirmed that he was grateful to have been part of the late-night sketch show, playing Walz opposite Maya Rudolph’s take on Harris. …
Read More »Oprah Winfrey's Team Denies She Was Paid 'Personal Fee' to Appear at Harris Event
Oprah Winfrey‘s production company, Harpo Productions, has denied rumors that the TV host was paid $1 million to participate in an online event in support of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. “The campaign paid for the production costs of ‘Unite for America,’ a livestreaming event that took place Sept. 19 …
Read More »Jon Stewart Investigates What Went Wrong for Democrats on Election Night
Jon Stewart opened the latest episode of The Daily Show by jokingly declaring, “Welcome to the resistance.” However, he added that due to holidays and him only being on the late-night show on Mondays, it will be about “15 hours of resistance in total” over the next four years. The …
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