Soulja Boy testified in his own defense Tuesday at a civil trial in California, telling jurors he “never” assaulted the woman who claims he beat, raped, and held her against her will while she lived with him as a personal assistant starting in 2019. The rapper, whose real name is …
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Do you feel the same? Well, if you do, you’re in luck: Susanna Hoffs has re-recorded her beloved Bangles ballad “Eternal Flame.” The new version, which you can check out above, stays true to the 1988 original, which Hoffs co-wrote with Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly and released off the …
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Back in 2015, 5 Seconds of Summer inadvertently immortalized one of the most unnerving events in their lore-packed history when they titled a deep cut on their sophomore album “Catch Fire.” Months before the record arrived on the pop rock-infused Sounds Good, Feels Good, their guitarist Michael Clifford was burned …
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Momma deliver their fantastic new album Welcome to My Blue Sky just in time for a whole new Summer of Grunge. Momma’s Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten are longtime friends who met as high school Pavement fans in Southern California, now raise hell in Brooklyn, and cram their guitars full …
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Bartees Strange, Speedy Ortiz, L’Rain, and others will play the inaugural Liberation Weekend festival, which takes place in Washington D.C. at Black Cat and DC9 on the weekend of May 30. The two-day festival is organized by D.C. rockers Ekko Astral (who are also slated to play the fest) and …
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The U.S. Department of State revoked the travel visa of a Mexican band that was set to tour the U.S. this month after they prominently displayed images of a notorious drug kingpin at a recent concert. Mexican corrido groupLos Alegres del Barranco was scheduled to perform April 5 in Austin, …
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ROA is singing to a queen he’d like to keep. On Tuesday, the rising Puerto Rican star released his yearning Latin trap single, “Reina.” “Queen, I don’t know if you’re the right one/But with you, everything feels bigger,” sings the Puerto Rican star on the chorus in Spanish. “Don’t tell …
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Tim Mohr, the acclaimed journalist, author, and translator who collaborated on memoirs with Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan and Kiss frontman Paul Stanley, died Monday at his home in Brooklyn, New York. He was 55. Mohr’s publisher, Europa Editions, confirmed his death in a message from executive publisher Michael Reynolds. …
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This story appears in Issue 02 of Esses, a new media company that covers the culture, art, and characters of Formula 1. Subscribe to Esses to reserve your copy of Issue 02 here. Talking about the Beatles is fucking exhausting. Everything a person can say about them has already been …
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Elton John retired from touring in 2023, and last year, he experienced a serious health scare involving his vision. But for an artist with his work ethic and drive, slowing down was never really an option. In fact, his latest collaborative album, with country maverick Brandi Carlile, is a heartwarming …
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