Last week, buzzing St. Louis rapper Sexyy Red became the latest entertainer to rankle the public by openly supporting former President Donald Trump. During an appearance on Theo Von’s This Past Weekend web show, she said, “Yeah, they support [Trump] in the hood. At first, I don’t think people was …
Read More »Trolls Push Video Game Clips as Real Gaza Conflict Footage — and It's Working
Trolls, clout-chasers, and the merely clueless are flooding social media with clips from a military video game, passing them off as footage of the unfolding conflict in Gaza. The fake videos come as misinformation about the conflict overflows on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Following Saturday’s large-scale attack …
Read More »'I Felt Hunted': Israeli Rave Fan Describes Fleeing Massacre
Amir Ben Natan, 37, is a stock trader from Herzliya who attended the psytrance Universo Paralello rave – titled Supernova Sukkot – near the Gaza Strip on the morning of October 7, 2023. He was separated from his friends as missiles and bullets rained down and hundreds of festivalgoers were …
Read More »Homecoming: 21 Savage Schedules First-Ever U.K. Concert at London's O2 Arena
21 Savage has been an invaluable player in the Atlanta rap scene for nearly a decade — but his true homecoming is about to happen 4,000 miles away. On Nov. 30, the rapper will take the stage at the O2 Arena in London, the city where he was born and …
Read More »Hayley Williams Was Afraid She Couldn't Face the World — Then Paramore 'Found Each Other Again'
T he night before Paramore released their sixth studio album This Is Why, they shared a list of all the things they were thinking about while working on the LP: Agoraphobia. Cabin fever. American Psycho. One point read: “Confused about the difference between selfishness and self-preservation.” “Making This Is Why …
Read More »AC/DC Make Victorious Return With First Live Show in Seven Years
AC/DC took to the stage for the first time in seven years on Saturday night of the Power Trip festival. It was the first time lead vocalist Brian Johnson performed live with the group since September 2016 in Philadelphia, following a 79-date Rock or Bust world tour. The ill-fated trekrequired …
Read More »Pet Shop Boys Would Like to Know Just Why Drake Sang 'West End Girls' on His New Album
On Drake‘s “All the Parties,” his voice emerges from what sounds like an ambient fever dream with ethereal synths swirling his words as he latches onto a familiar melody: “It’s 6, our town a dead-end world,” he sings, with autotune blipping his voice, “East End boys and West End girls, …
Read More »Junior H Breaks Down His New Album — And Shares Why Latin Grammys' Corridos Snub Breaks His Heart
Junior H wasn’t planning on revisiting his beloved album $ad Boyz 4 Life for a sequel. After dropping a pair of albums last year, including his trap experiment Contingente, Junior started writing music in the same style as the 2019 LP he made when he didn’t have a fancy studio …
Read More »'The Exorcist: Believer' Can Go Straight to Hell
A handful of the faithful and the pious might have been able to tell you what an exorcist was, or what they did, before the early 1970s. After William Friedkin’s blockbuster adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s bestselling horror novel hit screens in 1973, however, the term instantly became part of …
Read More »Trump Keys on Jim Jordan's Wrestling History in Speaker Endorsement
Donald Trump has thrown his support behind Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan in the race to replace former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. In his endorsement, the former president largely skipped over highlighting Jordan’s record in government, instead choosing to laud his achievements as a collegiate wrestler. “Congressman Jim Jordan has been …
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