Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong told a British crowd that he’s “renouncing” his American citizenship following the Supreme Court’s decision to repeal Roe v. Wade. Performing live at London Stadium on the band’s Hella Mega tour with Fall Out Boy and Weezer on the night of the Court’s decision Friday, …
Read More »Phoebe Bridgers on Her Abortion: 'I Wasn't Fucking Emotional at All'
Phoebe Bridgers admitted in a new interview she was surprised by the response to her revelation that she had an abortion while on tour last year. Speaking to The Guardian ahead of her appearance at Glastonbury this weekend, the musician said she didn’t give much thought before she posted on …
Read More »Anti-Abortion Teens Dance as Women Lose Their Right to Choose
Women wailed outside the Supreme Court while teenagers next to them started a dance party. At the moment the growing crowd learned six justices had overturned Roe v. Wade, it was impossible to tell if the din echoing off the high court’s marble was cheers or screams. As it turns …
Read More »Hear Tim Robbins as Hunter S. Thompson in Dramatized Reading of 'On Our Way Back to the Motel'
A dramatized reading of Hunter S. Thompson‘s The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent & Depraved will be pressed on vinyl for the first time, out July 15 via Shimmy-Disc/Paris Records. The reading of the essay — originally published in Scanlon’s Monthly in June 1970 — features Tim Robbins as Thompson and …
Read More »Lena Dunham's 'Sharp Stick': See Red Band Trailer for New Film About Womanhood, Sexuality
Lena Dunham will return after a 12-year feature filmmaking hiatus with the semi-autobiographical, sex-filled and trauma-talking Sharp Stick, with the writer-director-star sharing the movie’s new red band trailer Thursday ahead of its summer release. The movie trailer opens with protagonist Sarah Jo (played by Kristine Froseth) searching up porn for …
Read More »South Dakota Attorney General Removed from Office Over Fatal Car Crash
South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg was removed from office on Tuesday after an historic impeachment trial in the state Senate, nearly two years after he fatally struck a man with his vehicle. Ravnsborg was facing two articles of impeachment stemming from his role in the 2020 car crash: one …
Read More »'Pandas Aren't Real' Is the Latest Conspiracy Theory Taking Off on TikTok
When you think of pandas, you typically think about one of two things: One, the adorable, monochromatic animal that was the subject of a 2003 DreamWorks Animation film, or two, that song by Desiigner. The latest conspiracy theory currently making the rounds on TikTok concerns the former — specifically, whether …
Read More »Gorillaz and Thundercat Team for a Gritty, Grooving, and Goofy New Track 'Cracker Island'
Gorillaz have linked up with bassist/goofball extraordinaire Thundercat for a new song, “Cracker Island.” “Cracker Island” is a bustling blast of dance funk that tempers its slick, bass-heavy groove with plenty of grit and a touch of dark wave energy. Thundercat aides Damon Albarn on the song’s vocals, while the …
Read More »'Gay Men Make Up Our Own Rules': Inside the Making of 'Bros'
Billy Eichner had one lesson he wanted to impart to Nick Stoller as they attempted to write what would become the first gay romantic comedy release by a major studio: Love is, in fact, not love. “I knew it was such a huge opportunity,” says Eichner, the star and co-writer …
Read More »John Legend Boosts Progressive Prosecutors in New Op-Ed: 'It's Not Radical to Dream of a More Free America'
In anticipation of the Supreme Court’s forthcoming decision on the fate of Roe v. Wade, and in the face of a new Alabama law making it a felony for a doctor to provide gender-affirming care for trans youth, John Legend published an impassioned op-ed in USA Today calling for the …
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