UPDATE (3/10): The Bans Off My Body event has been postponed due to COVID-19 concerns. “In light of current public health concerns, we are disappointed to have to postpone our benefit concert. We are deeply committed to the values represented by Planned Parenthood’s Bans Off My Body campaign,” Feminist Institute …
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Justin Bieber loves his wife. Being married, sharing a life together, having sex with his lawfully wedded spouse — he’s enjoying all these elements of his life as a 25-year-old, so much so that he has now recorded an entire album about this subject and not much else. Changes, which …
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Dr. Dre paid tribute to Kobe Bryant during the 2020 NBA All-Star game with a short segment that reflected on the player’s storied career. The clip, created by Dre, Gibson Hazard and Jackson Bannon, features many of Bryant’s on-court successes, with the rapper remixing them together into a dynamic instrumental …
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Songwriters have been experiencing revelations on the road for as long as popular music has existed. A poignant exchange at a roadside gas station; a passing conversation overheard outside the venue. After a while, these comically insignificant moments become the only real way a touring musician encounters the world. In …
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In this week’s episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Congressman Ro Khanna of California, who also serves as a national co-chair of Bernie Sanders‘2020 presidential campaign. They discuss the DNC’s role in Iowa caucus debacle, and the prospects for New Hampshire …
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Chris de Burgh, “Lady In Red” It’s kind of fitting that this song was a hit in 1986, the height of the greed-is-good, conspicuous consumption Eighties; it’s the ultimate trophy-wife ballad (barely edging out Eric Clapton’s “Wonderful Tonight”). The fake-glitz muzak sound is perfect for a cheaply sentimental song about …
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Jean-Paul Gaster still remembers the moment he realized the first heavy-metal band was playing jazz. Growing up near Washington, D.C., the drummer — who for nearly 30 years has brought a loose-limbed swagger to the rhythms of esteemed hard-rock band Clutch — would sit with his father and watch live …
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Tina Knowles-Lawson, the mother of Beyoncé and Solange, is well-known for her design sensibilities and her wonderful Instagram account, so it should stand to reason that she owns an impressive art collection. In a new interview withtheWall Street Journal, Knowles-Lawson discussed the importance of “surrounding yourself with art” and revealed …
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Rolling along on Farm Road 350 outside Livingston, Texas, past the billboard advertising Aqua Plumbing (for all your plumbing needs), and the plain white cross casting halfhearted shadows over the East Tempe Baptist Church, and the sign announcing “Grocery” where only broken-down nothingness and weeds currently exist, and the desultory …
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A fire at a Banning, California, manufacturing plant could wreak havoc on the global supply of vinyl records, Pitchfork reports. On Thursday, Apollo Masters Corp., which has produced the lacquer discs used to make masters for vinyl production for decades, was devastated in a fire that took 82 firefighters and …
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