Is it doing Hulu‘s new This Way Up a favor or a disservice to compare it to Fleabag? The parallels are unavoidable. Both are British dramedies with a female creator/star. Both are about women with significant emotional problems, who tell inappropriate jokes as a defense mechanism when they’re feeling vulnerable …
Read More »Would You Invest Your Own Money Into Your Favorite Artist's Music?
This might be a golden age for artists in terms of the likelihood they can make a living from their music, but that doesn’t mean things aren’t tough out there: According to recent stats, Apple Music, the world’s second-largest audio-streaming subscription service, pays artists (and record labels) an average of …
Read More »Oliver Tree Is Outlandish, and It's Working
Not long after Oliver Tree released the video for “All That x Alien Boy” — in which the bowl-cutted singer gets bowled over by a minivan, staggers to his feet bloody but unbowed, finds his way to a monster truck, and uses it to wreak vengeance on his attacker — …
Read More »Sarah Silverman, Ben Gibbard Remember Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison in Short Film
Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard, the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn, Sarah Silverman and more remember Scott Hutchison in Tiny Changes, a short documentary about the recently released tribute album for the late Frightened Rabbit singer. The Twilight Sad, the National’s Aaron Dessner & Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry, Biffo Clyro, Julien …
Read More »In Brazil, a LGBTQ Sex Worker's Struggle to Survive
In Brazil’s northern state of Bahia, in its capital city of Salvador, there’s a narrow road tucked between an abandoned colonial mansion and a private hospital. Leading downhill, it’s the kind of street Uber drivers don’t know exists unless you specifically point them to it. Ankle-breakingly steep, it’s uninviting in …
Read More »Phish Detail Fall 2019 Tour Dates
Phish will follow their extensive 2019 summer tour with a seven-date fall run that will kick off with a two-night stand at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center in Providence Rhode Island, November 29th and 30th. On December 1st, the band will perform their first show at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, …
Read More »RS Charts: Drake Posts Huge Numbers to Reclaim Top Spot on Artists 500
Drake returned to the Number One spot on the Artists 500 after racking up a whopping 206 million song streams for the week of August 2nd through August 8th. After Chance the Rapper surged past him last week on the strength of his new album, The Big Day, the Toronto …
Read More »If Elected, Bernie Sanders Will Reveal What the Government Knows About Aliens
Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), during an interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast this week, promised the host that he would expose what the government may know about aliens because his wife Jane would insist he do so. Rogan asked how a possible future President Sanders would handle what some …
Read More »Kip Moore Previews New Album With Heartland Rocker 'She's Mine'
On his next record, Kip Moore is looking for answers. “It’s going to be a whole other step for me musically, lyrically, personally,” Moore tells Rolling Stone Country. “You are going to feel where I have been in my life, and the questions I have had along the way. What …
Read More »Add Elizabeth Warren to the List of Democrats Willing to Call Trump a White Supremacist
Democratic candidate and senator from Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren told the New York Times on Wednesday, “Yes,” when asked if she thought President Donald Trump was a white supremacist. The candidate went on to say that Trump “has given aid and comfort to white supremacists,” adding, “He’s done the wink and …
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