Taylor Swift’s Lover may have come out this past August, but theLover era is far from over. On Thursday morning, the singer released her latest music video for her feminist empowerment track “The Man,” in which Swift dons full drag to portray the worst of masculinity. Swift previously shared an …
Read More »Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Progressive PAC Rolls Out First Slate of Endorsements
Last month, a Fox News reporter trumpeted a “SCOOP” on Twitter — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was “withholding” $250,000 in dues to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Ocasio-Cortez confirmed the report: “DCCC made clear that they will blacklist any org that helps progressive candidates like me. I can choose not to …
Read More »The Eagles Fly High With Epic 'Hotel California' Show at Madison Square Garden
Midway through the Eagles marathon show at Madison Square Garden on Friday night, Don Henley stepped up to the microphone and addressed the crowd for one of the few times that evening. “The first thing I want to do is thank you for your support all these years,” he said. …
Read More »'Stranger Things': Hopper Lives in First Season 4 Teaser
Hopper is alive and well and working on railroad tracks in Russia in Stranger Things 4’s first teaser, which resolves the third season’s biggest cliffhanger. The nearly minute-long teaser focuses only on a mysterious, desolate, Soviet-era outpost somewhere in snowy Russia, where David Harbour’s character — with a shaved head …
Read More »Inside the 'Secret Committees' That Quietly Run the Grammy Awards
What is the path to a Grammy? It’s supposed to go this way: The Recording Academy, the Grammy Awards’ parent organization, receives an avalanche of submissions, organizes them by category, and sends them to its 12,000 eligible voting members, who select around 20 contenders per category by popular vote. That …
Read More »Black Sabbath's Debut: 5 Things We Learned About Its Creation and Cover Art
Black Sabbath changed the world of music 50 years ago this week with their genre-defining self-titled debut. To mark the occasion, Rolling Stone put together a comprehensive account of the record’s creation. We spoke with 12 original sources, including the Black Sabbath’s guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler, and drummer …
Read More »We Fact-Checked Four of the Most Outrageous Claims in Gwyneth Paltrow's Netflix Show
The most effective troll of 2020 isn’t Kanye or Trump or one of the Paul brothers. It’s a rich blond lady selling $75 hoo-ha-scented candles. This is the primary takeaway from the new Netflix series The Goop Lab, the latest joint from actor Gwyneth Paltrow, the CEO of the much-maligned …
Read More »Court Tosses Landmark Climate Change Case Brought On Behalf of Youth
A federal appeals court has struck down a landmark climate change lawsuit brought against the federal government on behalf of children and young adults. On Friday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco tossed the suit in a two-to-one majority decision, upending an earlier district court ruling …
Read More »Twang's Up? Samantha Bee Explores Sexism in Country Music
Despite steps forward to level the playing field by CMT, AppleMusic, and the Change the Conversation org, gender imbalance in country music remains a problem. It’s even caught the eye of Samantha Bee, who devoted an entire segment to Nashville’s lack of women on country radio on this week’s Full …
Read More »Steely Dan, Steve Winwood Set Earth After Dark Summer Tour
Steely Dan and Steve Winwood will join forces this summer for the Earth After Dark Tour. Donald Fagen and company — who recently completed a fall trek — and the former Traffic and Blind Faith singer will kick off their 23-date joint tour June 2nd in Portland, Oregon. The jaunt, …
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