Graham Nash has joined the growing chorus of artistsremoving their music from Spotify to protest misinformation about vaccines disseminated by the platform’s Joe Rogan Experience. The move comes just one week after Nash’s former Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young bandmate Neil Young demanded the streaming platform remove his catalog for …
Read More »'Reacher' Finally Proves It's Not Just Size That Matters
The satiric sci-fi author Douglas Adams once wrote, “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.” Now, substitute the name Jack Reacher for …
Read More »The 10 Best Movies at Sundance 2022
The usual prep for Sundance involves a good deal of packing (warm coats, snow-ready boots, a dozen thermals and a lot of Theraflu) and several weeks of intense physical training (wind sprints to better catch fast-moving shuttles, long stairmaster sessions for those screenings at the fourth floor Library theater, extreme-cold …
Read More »Hear the Famously Awful Smiths Song Morrissey Called Out in Letter to Johnny Marr
It’s not quite clear what Johnny Marr said recently to piss off Morrissey, but it resulted in an extremely bitchy “open letter” from the former Smiths singer to his one-time guitarist and songwriting partner. “You don’t know me,” Morrissey wrote. “You know nothing of my life, my intentions, my thoughts, …
Read More »'It's F-cked Up to Try and Discredit My Writing': Taylor Swift Fires Back at Blur's Damon Albarn
UPDATE 1/25:Damon Albarn referenced the Swift controversy before the finale of his performance at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles Monday night, according to Spin. The British rocker even took aim at Los Angeles Timesmusic critic Mikael Wood, whose interview with Albarn contained the original Swift quip. Albarn …
Read More »How Kanye West 'Cracked the Pavement' of Rap on 'Yeezus'
In 2013, Kanye West released Yeezus, his sixth studio album. It sounded like nothing the rapper had ever produced. Fans recoiled at the album’s experimental sound. This was Kanye at his most provocative, lyrically and sonically. Critics began to wonder if Ye, who seemed to be at the height of …
Read More »In New Doc, Evan Rachel Wood Claims Marilyn Manson 'Essentially Raped' Her On-Camera
Evan Rachel Wood claims that she was “essentially raped on-camera” by Marilyn Manson in the first part of Phoenix Rising, Wood’s new documentary that premiered Sunday night at the Sundance Film Festival. The film details her on-again, off-again relationship with the rocker, who Wood claimed “horrifically abused” her for years …
Read More »Meat Loaf, Master of Operatic Rock, Dead at 74
Meat Loaf, the singer and actor best known for his bestselling Bat Out of Hell albums and roles in films as varied as The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Fight Club, died Thursday at the age of 74. The news was confirmed by the singer’s family in a post on …
Read More »Taylor Swift Is the First Global Record Store Day Ambassador
Taylor Swift, who has long supported independent music shops and vinyl culture, will serve as Record Store Day Ambassador for this year’s event, set to take place on April 23. The artist is the event’s first global ambassador. Over the years, the singer-songwriter has put out special releases for both …
Read More »Trump Caps MLK Day by Using Taxpayer-Funded Office to Promote Golf Course Renovations
Donald Trump had something important to say as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day drew to a close on Monday. Since Twitter banned him following the attack on the Capitol, the former president has made the bulk of his announcements through his Save America PAC. This one, however, came on …
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