On Friday, President Donald Trump stood in front of recently-refurbished border wall along the California-Mexico border and boasted that it was the beginning of construction on the wall he promised voters in the 2016 campaign. And Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen installed commemorative plaque bearing Trump’s name last fall along …
Read More »Watch Killer Mike Praise Nipsey Hussle's Community Service at Memorial
Killer Mike delivered a fierce speech about ending gang violence at a memorial service for Nipsey Hussle at Atlanta’s Morris Brown College Wednesday. The short video was posted on Facebook by radio DJ Charlamagne tha God. The clip starts with Killer Mike praising the work Nipsey Hussle did in his …
Read More »Ozzy Osbourne Postpones All 2019 Gigs Due to Injury: 'I Will Be Back'
A recent injury is forcing Ozzy Osbourne to postpone the remainder of his 2019 tour dates. While recovering from pneumonia, which forced him to cancel dates in Europe, Asia and Australia, he suffered a fall in his Los Angeles home, which aggravated an injury he sustained when he was in …
Read More »Fricke's Picks: Long Ryders, Motorpsycho, Ace of Cups
Here are three of the best albums of 2019 so far. Two of them are surprising and heartening resurrections by American bands who deserved better in their first lifetimes but haven’t given up. The third is bold prog-rock violence from Norway by a band with nearly three decades of mayhem …
Read More »Hear Mac DeMarco's Mellow New Song 'All Of Our Yesterdays'
Mac DeMarco has just released a second single for his upcoming album Here Comes the Cowboy, and thankfully this one doesn’t share the same title as a Mitski song. A wistful spring tune, “All Of Our Yesterdays” is a reflection on the past with Shakespearian roots. “The phrase ‘all of …
Read More »China Bans All Types of Fentanyl
China has banned all forms of the opioid fentanyl, following a promise President Xi Jinping made to President Donald Trump last year, The New York Times reports. Much of the world’s fentanyl is believed to be made in China, and the drug increasingly became a point of contention between the …
Read More »Watch 'SNL' Spoof Jordan Peele's 'Us' With Discover Card Ad
This week’s episode of the Saturday Night Live didn’t hesitate to chime in on the conversation surrounding Jordan Peele’s new horror film Us. A standard ad for a Discover Card proves to be exactly the opposite as SNL stars Ego Nwodim and Kenan Thompson battle with the credit card company. …
Read More »Read the Heartfelt Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Speeches by (Some of) Radiohead
When the news came out that Radiohead were entering the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, many fans thought they’d pull a Sex Pistols and simply not show up to the ceremony. “I don’t care,” guitarist Jonny Greenwood told Rolling Stone in 2017. “Maybe it’s a cultural thing that I …
Read More »Watch Matthew McConaughey Get People High on 'Kimmel'
Matthew McConaughey fully embraced Moondog, his character from the upcoming movie The Beach Bum, as he went undercover for Jimmy Kimmel Live in an attempt to get random strangers high. Dressed as Moondog in a long blond wig and captain’s hat, the actor went out onto Hollywood Boulevard to convince …
Read More »Lucinda Williams, the Mavericks Lead 2020 Outlaw Country Cruise Lineup
The fifth annual Outlaw Country Cruise has announced its 2020 lineup, with a mix of veteran cruisers from past years and new-to-the-voyage artists setting sail in late January. Lucinda Williams and Steve Earle, two of the 2019 cruise headliners, are set to return, along with the Mavericks, Ray Wylie Hubbard, …
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