All of Green Day’s secrets are coming out. On Thursday night, the punk-rock icons not only performed a “secret” show in downtown Las Vegas (they teased it earlier in the week), but also had another surprise up their sleeves: an upcoming U.S. stadium tour with the Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid, and …
Read More »Kanye is 'Not a Candidate in 2024,' His Lawyer Says
YE24, we hardly knew ye. The prospect of a Kanye West presidential run this election cycle appears dead. Ye’s personal attorney Bruce Marks, who is advising the wind-down of the rapper’s campaign apparatus, tells Rolling Stone: “He’s not a candidate for office in 2024.” Evidence of the decision not to …
Read More »Mitch Rowland Is Harry Styles' Favorite Guitarist — and He Might Become Yours
Mitch Rowland could have been designed in a mad scientist’s laboratory as the prototypical soft-spoken guitar dude. He’s a shy rock geek from small-town Ohio who just won a Grammy for Album of the Year, for his work on Harry Styles’ global blockbuster Harry’s House. When he met Styles, he …
Read More »'Big Mouth' Creators on Megan Thee Stallion's 'Pussy' Anthem and More
THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers from the seventh season of Big Mouth. Season Seven of Netflix’s Big Mouth begins where the penultimate season ends: the cast of pubescent middle schoolers arrive at high school exploring the PDA-filled halls, meeting the gospel-singing B-High Quee-Choi, and participating in a classic food fight. Although …
Read More »I Fell in (And Out of) Love With Riley Reid's AI Porn Bot
Back in the early days of the internet, when I had to plug a phone cord into my parents’ laptop to could get into fights on Buffy the Vampire Slayer AOL forums, my friends and I were obsessed with something called SmarterChild. SmarterChild was neither smart nor a child; he, …
Read More »'It's OK Not to Be the Saddest Girl in the Room': How Ian Sweet Embraced Pop
Last February, after Coldplay performed an emotional, choir-backed “Fix You” on SNL, Chris Martin ran into his biggest fan. “I kind of forced him to meet me,” Jilian Medford recalls with a laugh. “He had just come off the stage and I was like, ‘Hi! I love you so much. …
Read More »Jim Jordan's Bid for the Speakership Ends In Failed Secret Ballot
Jim Jordan shed even more support from his caucus in a third failed vote to secure the Speakership, and on Friday the Republican caucus deemed that he is no longer their Speaker Designate. Twenty-five Republicans voted against Jordan’s nomination during a Friday floor vote, an increase in defections from the …
Read More »Hamas Release Two American Hostages, a Mother and Daughter, Taken on Oct. 7
Hamas released two American hostages on Friday. Militants for the group that controls Gaza abducted mother and daughter Judith Raanan (who also goes by Yehudit Tai), 59, and Natalie Raanan (Natali Shoshana Raanan), 17, from Kibbutz Nahal Oz, during their invasion on Oct. 7. The Israeli military picked them up …
Read More »GOP Erupts Into Chaos and Cussing With Jim Jordan's Speaker Bid on Hold
Jim Jordan lost a floor vote to become House Speaker on Tuesday. He lost by an even wider margin on Wednesday. He decided against a third vote on Thursday — which many predicted would have gone even worse for the Ohio Republican — instead opting to back a resolution to …
Read More »The 45 King, Hip-Hop Trailblazer Who Produced Hits for Jay-Z and Eminem, Dead at 62
Mark Howard James, better known as the celebrated hip-hop DJ and producer the 45 King, who helped craft hits for Jay-Z, Eminem, and many more, died on Thursday. He was 62. DJ Premier first announced James’ death on Instagram, noting his death came three days after his 62nd birthday. Paul …
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