The first full-length trailer forKajillionaire — the latest bizarre comedy from Miranda July — is here. The film earned rave reviews when it premiered at Sundance earlier this year, and it’s scheduled to arrive in theaters on September 18th. Kajillionaire stars Evan Rachel Wood as Old Dolio, a 26-year-old outcast …
Read More »Tegan and Sara Premiere 'I Know I'm Not the Only One' With Half-Hour Special
Tegan and Sara premiered their new video for “I Know I’m Not the Only One” on Wednesday with a 24-minute special, streamed live on YouTube. Filmed right before the COVID-19 quarantine took place, the music video (starting at the 12:16 mark) was inspired by the sisters’ high school days and …
Read More »Emmys 2020 Nominations: 12 Biggest Snubs and Surprises
The 72 annual Emmy awards dropped their nominations in a very 2020 way this morning: four people talking over each other on Zoom and with plenty of surprises. Unlike most years, there were some honestly unexpected choices made by the Academy, including Best Series nods for The Mandalorian and What …
Read More »Designer Kansai Yamamoto, Frequent David Bowie Collaborator, Dead at 76
Kansai Yamamoto — the celebrated fashion designer who worked extensively with David Bowie, as well as Elton John and Stevie Wonder — died last Tuesday, July 21st, after a short battle with leukemia. He was 76. Yamamoto’s death was announced Monday, July 27th, on his company’s social media pages. He …
Read More »TikTok Bans QAnon Hashtags
TikTok, which has recently played host to an explosion of QAnon-related content, has removed hashtags associated with the movement due to such content violating its guidelines. Searches for the hashtags #OutOfShadows, #FallCabal, and #QAnonTruth now yield zero results, as do searches for the hashtags #wwg1wga and #QAnon. As Rolling Stone …
Read More »Flashback: Bruce Springsteen Resurrects 'Blinded by the Light' in 1999
Earlier this month, Bruce Springsteen dug into his vault and released a killer E Street Band show recorded at Philadelphia’s First Union Center on September 25th, 1999. It was the culmination of a six-night stand in the city where he celebrated his 50th birthday and resurrected songs he hadn’t played …
Read More »'Better Than Words': How One Direction Became One of the Great Rock Bands of the 21st Century
A bathroom figures significantly in the origin stories of at least two classic One Direction songs. The first will be familiar to any fan: Songwriter and producer Savan Kotecha was sitting on the toilet in a London hotel room, when he heard his wife say, “I feel so ugly today.” …
Read More »'RS Interview: Special Edition' With Jeff Bridges
The great thing about Jeff Bridges is that he is the Dude — just with a social conscience and a mystical tilt. “’Shut the fuck up, Donny,’” that could be a koan, Bridges told me during our recent video chat. “Or, ‘Well, that’s just like your opinion man.’ That’s another …
Read More »Pandora Launches New Series of Afro-Latin Music Stations
Pandora has announced plans to roll out a new series of Latin music stations dedicated to music by black artists from various parts of Latin America. The first station in the series is Afro Colombia Radio, which was launched on Monday. “These new stations represent our effort to highlight and …
Read More »The Chicks Speak Truth to Power Once Again on 'Gaslighter'
The band formerly known as the Dixie Chicks cannot catch a break. Nearly two decades after the George W. Bush roast heard ‘round the world and the Chicks’ subsequent exile from Nashville, the bestselling Texas trio still have a bone to pick on Gaslighter, the group’s first studio release in …
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