Two Democratic names emerged from the hearings to confirm Brett Kavanaugh as strong voices against the Trump Administration nominee: Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ). Now, both are laying groundwork in Iowa, looking ahead to a 2020 presidential run. Booker visited Iowa October 6th-9th and has drawn …
Read More »Le Butcherettes Confront Toxic Relationships in New Video for 'Strong/Enough'
Garage punks Le Butcherettes get confrontational on their cheeky new video for “strong/ENOUGH,” the latest single off their upcoming fourth album. Due February 2019 via Rise Records, the untitled new album follows their psych-laden 2018 EP, struggle/STRUGGLE, and isproduced by Talking Heads keyboardist Jerry Harrison. Filmed in the beautiful, architecturalBox …
Read More »Watch Kurt Vile Bring Acoustic Twang to Tom Petty's 'Learning to Fly'
Kurt Vile performed a stripped-down cover of Tom Petty‘s “Learning to Fly” during a recent live session for Sirius channel XMU. Vile flipped the jangly rocker into a subtle, country-tinged tune, using just an acoustic guitar and a simple percussion backing track. In between nimble runs up and down his …
Read More »Charli XCX, Troye Sivan Become Steve Jobs, Eminem in New '1999' Video
Charli XCX and Troye Sivan relive the Nineties in their reference-packed video for collaboration “1999.” XCX recently joined Sivan at his sold out Radio City Music Hall show in NYC to perform the song together for the first time. The video opens with XCX in 2018, getting into a Lyft …
Read More »Troye Sivan Shows His Taylor Swift Ambitions at Radio City Music Hall
You might have thought you were entering a Troye Sivan costume contest when you entered Radio City Music Hall on the evening of October 9th. Young, lanky, male-presenting fans with hair bleached to match the South African singer were peppered into each row at the storied New York venue, breathing …
Read More »See Rock-Blues Band Bishop Gunn's Disturbing 'Alabama' Video
Southern-rock revivalists in Bishop Gunn are proud of their roots. They even named their newest album, Natchez, after the band’s Mississippi hometown, filling its songs with a mix of stomping Bible Belt blues and vintage, electrified soul. Their newest release, “Alabama,” is something of an outlier, downplaying the group’s amplified …
Read More »See Metallica Perform 'Fade to Black,' 'Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth)' at ACL Fest 2018
“I smell barbecue!” shouted James Hetfield, which was met with the hoots and cheers of thousands of Texans during the first weekend of Austin City Limits festival. Metallica hit the ground running on Saturday night — just a few minutes’ shy of their 8 p.m. start time. Opening with the …
Read More »Banksy Self-Destructs Painting Moments After Its $1.4 Million Auction
Banksy’s latest prank could cost one person over $1 million after the street artist self-destructed one of his works moments after it was sold at auction. A framed version of Banksy’s “Girl With Balloon,” one of the artist’s most iconic images, hit the auction block Friday night at Sotheby’s in …
Read More »Conan O'Brien Pays Tribute to Longtime House Band on Final Hour-Long 'Conan'
Conan O’Brien bid farewell do his longtime house band, most members of which have performed alongside the late-night host for 25 years, on Thursday’s Conan, which also marked the host’s final TBS episode in its standard hour-long format. “There is one change on the horizon that makes me quite sad,” …
Read More »Flashback: Taylor Swift Makes Her Awards Show Debut in 2007
Taylor Swift used to be an inescapable presence at award shows, but ever since she wrapped up her 1989 tour three years ago she’s kept an extremely low public profile by skipping out on the Grammys, the MTV Video Music Awards and all the other award shows in addition to …
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