There’s a new power player on America’s extremist scene. White nationalist “Active Clubs” are growing explosively, and filling a void created by the prosecutions that decimated the leadership of Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys. “The Active Clubs are who the Proud Boys thought they were,” says Jon Lewis, a …
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On average, Thomas Rhett has scored a Number One song on Billboard’s Country Airplay Chart every six months for the past decade, explaining the title of his recent 20 Number Ones compilation. He repeated the trick again earlier this year with “Angels (Don’t Always Have Wings),” bringing his total up …
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When the 1975 goes off-grid following the conclusion of the Still… At Their Very Best tour, it won’t mark the end of the band itself. Earlier this week, Matty Healy told an audience in Sacramento that an “indefinite hiatus of shows” has been planned following the run of concerts. Two …
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Bruce Springsteen teams up with Bryce Dessner for the new track “Addicted to Romance,” the end credits song from the upcoming film She Came to Me that the National member scored. The E Street Band rocker wrote the track after watching the film, with Springsteen also providing vocals, piano, and …
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Pregnancy and its various complications have always been fertile ground when it comes to horror. From devil children to… well, it’s always devil children, isn’t it? Which is why the most recent season of American Horror Story: Delicate — which deals with the heartbreaking trials and errors of IVF — …
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The liquor giant Diageo has issued a point-by-point rebuttal to Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawsuit, rejecting the rapper/entrepreneur’s claims that he and his vodka and tequila brands were mistreated and discriminated against. Rather, Diageo claims it consistently provided support to Combs’ brands, Ciroc and DeLeón, and that Combs “asked to be …
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There’s still no release date for Peter Gabriel‘s new LP I/O, which he’s been working on for over two decades, but he’s been releasing individual tracks from it over the past few months, tied to the moon cycle. The newest one is “This Is Home,” a love song inspired by …
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Dianne Feinstein— the path-breaking politician, doyenne of old-school California Democrats, and the longest-serving female senator in U.S. history — died on Thursday night at her home in Washington, D.C., according to her office. She was 90. “There are few women who can be called senator, chairman, mayor, wife, mom, and …
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The collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s $40 billion crypto empire shocked the world with its speed and scale. In mere days, the company he founded, FTX, fell from its perch as a top cryptocurrency exchange and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Customers who deposited funds on FTX — sometimes their life …
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It’s no secret that artificial intelligence has become 2023’s cultural boogeyman — the vengeful ghost in the machine that now seems closer than ever to possibly “replacing” humanity. (Or, at the very least, replicating our worst instincts and darker desires in a way that’s too dangerous to laugh off.) Musicians, …
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