PJ Harvey guests on “I’m Sorry for Your Loss,” a new song by her frequent collaborator and producer John Parish. The song pays tribute to Sparklehorse frontman Mark Linkous, who died by suicide in 2010.Parish produced Sparklehorse’s 2001 album A Wonderful Life. Harvey and Parish sing morose lyrics like “The …
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Last year,Albert Hammond Jr. learned some revelatory news about his childhood. It related to his twin brother, Francis, who died in 1979 after his mother prematurely gave birth to him six month before Albert was born. Hammond had known about that tragedy his entire life, but he didn’t know, as …
Read More »How a New Senate Bill Will Screw Over Sex Workers
On Wednesday, the Senate passed the Stop Enabling Sex-Trafficking Act by a bipartisan consensus of 97-2. SESTA amends Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, a federal provision which protects online publishers – from Facebook to The Erotic Review – from being held liable for third-party user posts on …
Read More »Watch Deadpool Break Fourth Wall in Violent 'Deadpool 2' Trailer
Marvel‘s fourth wall-busting superhero Deadpool assembles his own squadron of superheroes in the outrageous, hyper-meta new trailer for Deadpool 2, out May 18th. The clip opens with Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) saving the world from the scourge of gluten before finding himself up against a genuine problem: The time-traveling mutant soldier, …
Read More »Hear Keith Urban Revamp a Merle Haggard Riff in New Song 'Coming Home'
Keith Urban will spend most of his summer months on the road, kicking off a 58-date North American tour in mid-June. Appropriately, his newest single – the processed, pop-inspired “Coming Home” – shines a light on the revitalizing process of heading back to a place you reluctantly left. “I gotta …
Read More »See Queens of the Stone Age's Whimsical 'Haunted House' Video
Josh Homme and a severed green hand flipping the bird leads his Queens of the Stone Age through any number of kitschy frights in the animated video for “Head Like a Haunted House,” a track off last year’s Villains. Over the course of the song’s three minutes, skeletons, monsters and …
Read More »Watch 'Rick and Morty' Slay Aliens in Run the Jewels' 'Oh Mama' Video
The titular duo from Rick and Morty embark on a trademark inter-dimensional adventure – with a Quentin Tarantino-style twist – in Run the Jewels‘ new animated video for “Oh Mama.” The clip promotes the rap duo’s appearance at the first-ever Adult Swim Festival, scheduled for October 6th and 7th at …
Read More »Watch Meek Mill's Cousins Recall Rapper's Horrific Arrest
Meek Mill was arrested on January 24th, 2007 – one day after a member of Philadelphia’s Narcotics Field Unit (NFU) claimed to see the rapper selling crack to an informant. According to three of Meek’s cousins, who shared a house with the emcee, the arrest was horrifically violent. “When I …
Read More »'Journey's End' Review: Old-Fashioned WWI Tale Will Leave You Shattered
Over three days of fighting in March of 1918, British soldiers stuck in the WWI trenches of northern France and their commanding officers quartered below await a German attack. Raleigh (Hugo‘s Asa Butterfield), an inexperienced 19-year-old officer, had actually requested to join C Company, led his much-beloved former school housemaster …
Read More »Paul Simon Plots Final Leg of Farewell Tour
Update: Paul Simon announced his final show will take place at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, New York in September.“It seems more like fate than coincidence that I should do the final show on this final tour at Flushing Meadows Corona Park,” Simon said in a statement. “I could …
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