While discussing whether the U.S. economy might recover this fall after the coronavirus downturn, a Trump economic adviser referred to the American worker as “human capital stock.” Senior White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett made the wildly insensitive remark, first flagged by Aaron Rupar on Twitter, on Sunday after CNN’s …
Read More »The 1975's 'Notes on a Conditional Form' Is a Meandering Search for Meaning
Learning to enjoy the 1975 has always required a certain suspension of disbelief. If you can believe that a boy-band-pretty synth-pop quartet from Manchester with a poodle-haired lead singer can create nuanced, voice-of-a-generation anthems hidden inside layers upon layers of irony and bombast, then consider yourself a fan. Matty Healy, …
Read More »Liberty High Says Goodbye in '13 Reasons Why' Final Season Trailer
13 Reasons Why is coming to a close, with the Liberty High students preparing for graduation and readying themselves for goodbye. In the trailer for the show’s final season, premiering June 5th on Netflix, a group of friends from the senior class led by Clay Jensen (Dylan Minnette) come to …
Read More »Ray Wylie Hubbard, Ashley McBryde Team for 'Outlaw Blood' Video
Ray Wylie Hubbard and Ashley McBryde maintain social distancing guidelines in the video for their new collaboration “Outlaw Blood.” The song will appear on the beloved singer-songwriter’s guest-heavy album Co-Starring, due out July 10th via Big Machine. Hubbard lends his idiosyncratic singing style to a story about a tough woman …
Read More »Harry Styles Dedicates 'Watermelon Sugar' Video to the Much-Missed Act of Touching
Harry Styles has released a colorful, beach-set video for his latest single “Watermelon Sugar.” The track appears on the pop star’s sophomore album, Fine Line, released lastDecember. Filmed in January on a Malibu beach, the video opens with a cheeky dedication to “touching.” Styles is first seen walking up to …
Read More »Noah Cyrus Details 'The End of Everything' EP Track by Track, Unveils 'Young & Sad' Visualizer
Noah Cyrus‘ The End of Everything EP will be available on Friday via RECORDS/Columbia and to preview its release, the singer unveiled a new animated visualizer for the single “Young & Sad.” The clip opens with a message from her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus. She tells Rolling Stone it was …
Read More »Useful Idiots: Aaron Maté on New #Russiagate Bombshells
In this week’s quarantine episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Aaron Maté, host of Push Back, to talk about the resurfacing of the Russiagate story and how it’s helped Trump. Matt rants about the recent “leak” of Barack Obama talking to former members of …
Read More »Bad Bunny in Captivity
S omewhere on the northern shore of Puerto Rico sits a modest Airbnb with white stucco walls and a roof covered in fake grass. Inside, the island’s most exciting young superstar is fighting off boredom any way he can. It’s mid-March, days after Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced ordered …
Read More »Bob Dylan Cancels U.S. Summer Tour in 'Interest of Public Health and Safety'
Bob Dylan‘s U.S. summer tour has been canceled. The trek — originally scheduled to kickoff on June 4th in Bend, Oregon at Les Schwab Amphitheatre and to wrap on July 12th in Bethel Woods, New York at Bethel Woods Center of the Arts — could not be rescheduled for 2020, …
Read More »Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd Lead 'Back to the Future' Reunion on Josh Gad's 'Reunited Apart'
The cast of the Back to the Future films, including Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, reunited on the second episode of Josh Gad‘s new YouTube series, Reunited Apart. The episode included appearances from other cast members Lea Thompson, Mary Steenburgen and Elisabeth Shue, plus a surprise appearance at the …
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