BRISTOL, Pa. —John Fetterman will readily tell you he’s had a stroke. It was the first thing he mentioned in his rally stump speech at a riverside park in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on Sunday —well, the second, after he razzed Dr. Mehmet Oz, his GOP opponent, for living in New …
Read More »Beck Drops Off Arcade Fire's Tour Amid Win Butler Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Beck has dropped off the Arcade Fire’s upcoming North American tour, where the singer was to serve as opening act, amid accusations of sexual misconduct against the band’s frontman Win Butler. Ticket buyers were informed of the change via email Friday, “Beck is unfortunately no longer able to join Arcade …
Read More »Inside the Jerry Falwell Love Triangle: Pool Boy Tells All
Before the events related in this excerpt, Giancarlo Granda was just another 20-year-old Miami high school graduate: pool attendant at an iconic Miami Beach hotel, eager to please, ambitious, open to suggestion. A chance poolside encounter with Becki and then Jerry Falwell Jr., first-born son of an evangelical legend and …
Read More »Maggie Rogers Is a 'Feral Joy' Ambassador
THIS SUMMER, A few hours before the release of her second album, Surrender, Maggie Rogers paused for a moment onstage at New York’s Webster Hall. She’d just performed the album’s loudest, angriest track, “Shatter,” when she proclaimed: “I need a shot.” She’s so real for that. The half-joke worked, as …
Read More »Megan Thee Stallion Says She's 'Gotta Take a Break' After Her Home Is Broken Into: 'I'm So Tired'
Hotties need time off, too. Megan Thee Stallion is poised to experience a career highlight this weekend when she hosts (and performs on) Saturday Night Live, but she’s also dealing with some major material losses after her house was broken into Thursday night. On Friday, following a TMZ report that …
Read More »Unknown Assailant Tried to Knife Yak Gotti in Jail, Rapper's Family Says
ATLANTA — The rapper Yak Gotti got into a fight with another inmate in Fulton County jail on October 8, sheriff’s office officials confirmed Friday afternoon. Yak Gotti – real name Deamonte Kendrick – emerged from the fray relatively unscathed, his mother Tasha Kendrick said. “He beat that boy’s ass,” …
Read More »Bieber Fever: Watch Bob Costas Mistake Cleveland Guardians Pitcher for Justin Bieber
Baseball fans were celebrating when veteran sportscaster Bob Costas announced that he would be part of the broadcast team for the Yankees vs. Guardians Division Series, marking the first time Costas is calling a playoff series in 22 years. But his time away from the booth may have also confused …
Read More »Iconic Chicago House Label Trax Records Sued For Decades of Illegal Business Practices
When house music emerged from Chicago in the Eighties, it was a global phenomenon, helping sire rave scenes in the UK and Europe, and blueprinting the global club and EDM-festival scene. A large number of Chicago’s early house classics came out on Trax Records—songs like Phuture’s “Acid Tracks,” Mr. Fingers’ …
Read More »'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' Finale: Did We Get Everything Amazon Paid For?
This post contains spoilers for the first season finale of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Early in “Alloyed,” the concluding chapter to Season One of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, engineer Celebrimbor (Charles Edwards) …
Read More »Corey Taylor's New Job: Monster Magazine Owner
When Corey Taylor was five years old, Buck Rogers changed his life. If the Slipknot frontman hadn’t seen the 1979 film Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, he never would have seen the trailer for John Carpenter’s genre-defining slasher flick, Halloween. Taylor, now 48, still has total recall of the …
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