Rehab centers are cripplingly expensive, are often unscientific – most frightening – are “dangerously unregulated,” John Oliver said on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight. The comedian exposed a frequently obscured dark side of the $35 billion industry, which encompasses over 14,500 drug treatment facilities across the United States. While many rehab …
Read More »See Tami Neilson's Melancholy 'Manitoba Sunrise at Motel 6' Video
With New Zealand as her home base, singer-songwriter Tami Neilson spends a fair portion of her working life with an ocean separating her from family. The powerhouse vocalist, a native of Canada, deals with the subject in “Manitoba Sunrise at Motel 6,” which now has a melancholy video to accompany …
Read More »FYF Fest Announces My Bloody Valentine, Stephen Malkmus Makeup Shows
FYF Fest, which organizers canceled earlier this month, has announced makeup shows for several of the acts originally booked to perform at the event. The long-running festival, which was to celebrate its 15th anniversary, had been scheduled to take place on July 21st and 22nd at Exposition Park in Los …
Read More »Artist You Need to Know: Saweetie
Buried in some corner of YouTube is a video of Bay Area rapper Saweetie circa 2012 stanning for J. Cole outside a concert venue’s backdoor. She’s patient while her favorite rapper – the one whose mixtapes, burned for her by a friend, made her fall in love with music – …
Read More »Why Is Trump Suddenly So Concerned with Chinese Jobs?
Though he may have been too busy to buy his wife a birthday present last month, President Trump is a big fan of mothers. On Sunday morning, he tweeted a videoin which spoke of the “incredible spirit” of those who birthed us while marveling at “how they pioneered the West …
Read More »Inside Cumbia's New Wave: Raymix Leads Resurgence of Classic Genre
Edmundo Gómez Moreno spent 11 months as a project manager and systems engineer helping NASA build nano-satellites in Mexico. But in 2015, he could not find a job in the U.S. “I had letters of support from NASA, from the Mexican consulate, the managers from Lockheed Martin, all stating my …
Read More »Hear Dawes' Dreamy New Ballad 'Crack the Case'
Indie roots-rockers Dawes slip on their thinking caps for the new track “Crack the Case,” a cool-and-collected taste of their upcoming sixth album, Passwords, out June 22nd. Presented as a retro-future lyric video with its storyline scrolling across a space-race era computer console, the track appears to be asking one …
Read More »Donald Glover's 'This Is America' Is a Nightmare We Can't Look Away From
Donald Glover may be done making things for you to enjoy. His newest single as Childish Gambino, “This is America,” joins the second season of his FX series, Atlanta (“Robbin’ Season”), in showcasing a darker, more sinister vision than anything he’s done before. Both works take his audience on a …
Read More »Watch Mark Ronson Open Up About Teenage Panic Attacks
Mark Ronson opens up about his teenage struggle with a panic disorder in an intimate homemade video as part of the Child Mind Institute‘s 2018 #MyYoungerSelf social media campaign. “When I was 14 or 15, I started to get these pretty heavy panic attacks for the first time,” the writer-producer …
Read More »Travers on 'Bad Samaritan': Not Even David Tennant Can Save This Trash
Confession: I’ll see anything with David Tennant in it. Bad Samaritan, however, barely qualifies as “anything.” Mostly, it’s a collection of spare suspense parts that someone ransacked at the movie dump and is trying to resell as fresh product. Good luck with that. As compensation, there’s Tennant, the Scottish actor …
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