They might come from different genres, but both Syd and Kathleen Hanna are both rebels who do things their own way. In the latest episode of Rolling Stone‘s Musicians on Musicians podcast, the two artists break down their personal definitions of rebellion as they bond over their star signs and …
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Santi White wants you to know the truth — the kind of truth that helps you make sense of the world, even when it’s clunky and difficult to understand. The “Nothing” artist, who recently sat down with Rolling Stone, frames her new podcast Noble Champions as a reimagined salon, a …
Read More »Paul Flores Found Guilty in Murder of Kristin Smart
After four days of deliberation — and more than 25 years of questions — a California jury found Paul Flores guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Kristin Smart. His father, Ruben Flores, was found not guilty of being an accessory to the crime. The decision came after an …
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Lizzo must be exhausted. Each week she’s the subject of a new uproar, and last week’s was truly one for the books. After years of establishing her flute skills, playing the instrument is one of her big party tricks. So of course the Library of Congress took the opportunity to …
Read More »An Orthodox Jewish Boys' Choir Is Unironically Going Viral on TikTok
When you think of content that’s most likely to go viral on TikTok — lesbian influencer breakups and/or mukbangs, girls surprising their lackadasical boyfriends at college, women calling out fuckboy employees at high-end furniture stores — Orthodox Jewish kiddie pop groups seem like they’d be pretty low on the list. …
Read More »Stop Thirsting After Serial Killers
Late last week, Ryan Murphy’s latest project Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (catchy name) premiered on Netflix. Of course the serial-killer saga came with a large amount of controversy, specifically from one of the victims’ families, who said that the felt being re-traumatized by the show. But another ugly product …
Read More »'It's All Respect, It's All Love': Hailey Bieber Denies Any Feud With Justin's Ex Selena Gomez
Kicker: This, Again? “It’s all respect, it’s all love”: Hailey Bieber Denies Any Feud With Justin’s Ex Selena Gomez In an effort to address four years of internet drama since her 2018 wedding to Justin Bieber, Hailey Bieber (née Baldwin) sat down with the femi-nasty sex podcast Call Her Daddy …
Read More »Conservatives Are Lying About Schools Teaching 8-Year-Olds 'Porn Literacy'
Of all the states in this great nation, Idaho is not exactly well-known for being a bastion of progressive sexual politics. And yet, last week the Gem State somehow, improbably, became the center of a right-wing moral panic, all focused on a claim that the government was funding sex-ed programs …
Read More »'They Didn't Wait for Lady Gaga': Why a Controversial Theater TikToker Says 'Funny Girl' May Be 'Cursed'
Last week, Lea Michele made her much-ballyhooed debut in Funny Girl. It’s an understatement to say the casting of the former Glee star was not without controversy: although Michele had long been considered an obvious choice for Fanny Brice in the revival, having publicly campaigned for the role for more …
Read More »Musicians, Mushroom Experts, and Religious Scholars Dig Into the Grateful Dead's Legacy on New Podcast
A new ten-episode podcast, America’s Dead, will dig into the everlasting, multi-faceted legacy of the Grateful Dead with the help of some of their biggest fans. The show arrives in full today, Sept. 15, via Sonos Radio. Filmmaker/producer/Deadhead Emmett Malloy spearheaded America’s Dead, and served as host as well. The …
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