Massachusetts Senator and Elizabeth Warren made another attempt to move on from the Native American ancestry issue that has, at the very least, been an ongoing distraction for the soon-to-be 2020 presidential candidate. On Friday, the executive director of Cherokee Nation Communications, Julie Hubbard, said Warren apologized for releasing DNA …
Read More »Rodrigo y Gabriela's Pink Floyd Cover 'Echoes' Is a Song You Need to Know
The centerpiece of Pink Floyd‘s Meddle album, “Echoes,” is a sprawling 23-minute odyssey of psychedelic imagery, contemplative sound effects and rushing melodies. That 1971 song laid the groundwork for the sound the band went on to explore on Dark Side of the Moon and their subsequent Seventies albums, and it …
Read More »Mitski Gets Animated in New 'A Pearl' Video
Mitski has collaborated with Spotify on a striking new video for her song “A Pearl.” The surreal animated video begins with a barefoot woman in a white dress walking across a surreal landscape. The mysterious figure runs through an ornate living room and, as guitar riffs carry the song into a …
Read More »Best Movies to See This February: 'Lego Movie 2,' Liam Neeson, 'Alita'
So you’ve caught up with all of the big-name Oscar-nominated films and are ready to move past the dead zone that is January at the movies — what do you have to look forward in February? There’s a gangster movie set among the indigenous population of Colombia and an off-beat …
Read More »See Salt-N-Pepa in Trailer for HBO Roller Skating Documentary 'United Skates'
Salt-N-Pepa reflect on how roller rinks fostered the development of hip-hop in the new trailer for HBO’s United Skates, the John Legend-produced documentary film premiering February 18th at 8 p.m. ET/PT. “It was a place where, the streets, everybody met up,” says Sandra “Pepa” Denton. The clip touches on how …
Read More »'Empire' Star Jussie Smollett Hospitalized After Potential Hate Crime Attack
UPDATE:Chicago Police detectives have located surveillance footage that “shows potential persons of interest wanted for questioning” in connection to the recent potential hate crime attack on Empireactor Jussie Smollet, according to Chicago Police Chief Communications Officer Anthony Guglielmi’s tweet on Wednesday. Guglielmi also shared two photos of the people of …
Read More »Flashback: Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash Sing 'To Beat the Devil'
The story of former military man Kris Kristofferson piloting a helicopter onto Johnny Cash’s lawn to deliver his demo tapes to the Man in Black, while essentially true, has often been told without certain details present. Mainly that Kristofferson had already been working for two years as janitor at Columbia …
Read More »Book Review: 'Fault Lines' is an Excellent History of U.S. Political Dysfunction
“From the 1970s on, the United States would seem less and less united with each passing decade” goes the thesis ofFault Lines, the new history from Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer. Based on the authors’ class at Princeton, Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 …
Read More »El Chapo Trial: Witness Describes Alleged Kingpin's Torture, Murder of Rivals
El Chapo didn’t want any evidence left behind. So after beating a pair of rival narcos to a broken, bloody pulp, he shot them both in the head and ordered his men to burn the bodies. “I don’t want any bones to remain,” he said. His men obliged. They dragged …
Read More »A$AP Rocky Felt 'Emotionally Discouraged' After Tepid Album Response
A$AP Rocky’s Testing didn’t fare as well as his previous solo albums both critically and commercially. The project was another creative left turn for Rocky after the psychedelic, LSD-inspired experimentation of his sophomore album, At. Long. Last. ASAP. In an interview with GQ after the fourth annual Yams Day, Rocky …
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