Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers play Conan production assistants on Meet the Conan Staff, the host’s new digital series on YouTube. “Well, I sort of stumbled into the role of being the voice of the emo and indie rock movement,” Oberst says, introducing himself to the camera in an Office-like …
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In a telling example of how bad things can happen to creative people, the prosecution presents The Last Thing He Wanted. How does a director as stellar as Dee Rees (Mudbound, Pariah) go so thunderously wrong adapting a 1996 novel by the great Joan Didion, with a cast headed by …
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Pearl Jam have shared their third and final video for the Gigaton single “Dance of the Clairvoyants,” with the latest visual more focused on the band’s performance. While the previous iterations of the video, “Mach I” and “Mach II,” relied more on imagery highlighting the beauty of nature, the cosmos …
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In this week’s episode of our Useful Idiots’ podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper talk to Dennis Kucinich, who ran for president in 2004 and 2008, about his insights into the current presidential campaign. Plus, the duo discuss all the other crazy things going on in American politics. “He’s …
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Just how big is music streaming? The format continued on its path toward total dominance in 2019, and kept up its years-long resuscitation of the music U.S. music industry. For the first time ever, on-demand streams in the U.S. reached over 1 trillion, according to a year-end report from Alpha …
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The evangelical magazine Christianity Today called for President Donald Trump’s removal in an editorial published on Thursday. “His Twitter feed alone — with its habitual string of mischaracterizations, lies, and slanders — is a near perfect example of a human being who is morally lost and confused,” Mark Galli, the …
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The United States Military Academy at West Point and the U.S. Naval Academy have ruled that the students seen flashing the “OK” hand sign at the Army-Navy football game were playing a game and not displaying a distinct hand gesture that’s become popular among white supremacists. A handful of West …
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John Legend joined Kelly Clarkson on The Kelly Clarkson Show to perform the duo’s new version of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” The track, which comes off Legend’s new holiday album, A Legendary Christmas, has been updated for the modern era, with fresh lyrics like, “It’s your body and your choice.” …
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Monday’s 30th-anniversary edition of the Rainforest Fund benefit concert at New York’s Beacon Theater featured an incredible lineup that included Bruce Springsteen, Sting, James Taylor, John Mellencamp, Debbie Harry, and Shaggy. But it was the Eurythmics that managed to steal the show with their three-song set of “Would I Lie …
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Early in the new Showtime dramedy Work in Progress, Abby (Abby McEnany) tells her therapist, “I’m 45, I’m fat. I’m this queer dyke who hasn’t done shit in her life, and that is my identity?” This withering self-assessment comes only moments after Abby has announced plans to kill herself in …
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