Screaming Females don’t immediately seem like a band that’s been around for 18 years, but perhaps their longevity can be chalked up to their consistency. They’ve maintained the same power trio lineup, and all eight […]
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‘Very Ugly and Scary’: Ben Platt Addresses Neo-Nazi Protesters Outside of ‘Parade’ Musical
The first preview of a Broadway revival of Parade — a musical about the lynching of Jewish American Leo Frank in Georgia in 1915 — was disrupted by antisemitic protesters outside the theater Tuesday night, […]
‘What’s the Wendy’s Food Truck Menu?’: Brooklyn Beckham Was Every Bored Groom During Wedding Planning
Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz threw one hell of a wedding last April. So much so that the multi-million-dollar bash has still left them with a slight hangover: a lawsuit. Peltz’s billionaire investor father, Nelson Peltz, […]
Fake Biden Speeches Are the Hottest Trend in AI Voice Tech
Over the weekend, the Twitter account for a London police department shared that officers had arrested suspects for possession of “a large amount of cannabis,” including a picture of what appeared to be some truly […]
Blast Rites: Memoriam’s Karl Willetts Returns to the Battlefield, and More of February’s Best New Metal
It’s shaping up to be a huge year for live metal. The amount of stacked festivals and unmissable tours is growing by the week. Baltimore’s venerable Maryland Deathfest may be taking a year off — […]
Malcolm X’s Daughter to File Lawsuit Alleging FBI, CIA ‘Conspired’ to ‘Assassinate’ Her Father
57 Years Later The family plans to sue the agencies for $100 million, accusing them of playing a role in his 1965 murder Ilyasah Shabazz, 60, was two-years-old when her father, civil rights activist Malcolm […]
Skrillex: Quest for Fire / Don’t Get Too Close
Skrillex is what tech folks would call a disruptor. For decades, there was only dance music: a patchy network of underground nodes and connections that made sporadic incursions into the mainstream. Then, sometime in 2010, […]
Phew: Our Likeness
In 1981, a young man sat quietly in Conny Plank’s legendary Cologne recording studio, watching Japanese singer Phew record her debut album. She had been whisked from Osaka to Germany at only 20 years old […]
Jadasea & Laron: The Corner: Vol. 1
New York City and London share history, slang, and connections as cultural and African diasporic hubs, and for decades, hip-hop has strengthened the bond. Early stars like Slick Rick and the late MF DOOM were born in greater […]
Crushed: extra life EP
crushed make music as cliché as that first morning when you wake up next to someone new. Stupid. Excited. Hungover. Phone battery at 10 percent. But then the light hits your face. Was the sun […]
Alex Murdaugh ‘Destroyed’ and ‘Heartbroken’ by Family Murders, Son Says
Alex Murdaugh, the South Carolina lawyer who is on trial for the deaths of his wife and younger son, was “destroyed” and “heartbroken” after discovering their bodies, surviving son Buster Murdaugh testified on Tuesday, according […]
Last Stand in Coal Country
I t’s a week before Christmas and the sons and daughters of Alabama miners are playing musical chairs in an old school at Tannehill Ironworks State Park, 30 miles south of Birmingham. A mom presses […]