They broke up in 1982, after a decade of existence and a staggering eight-year run of hits, and have not recorded new material in over 35 years – but if you’ve been to the movies in the last quarter of a century, ABBA has never really gone away. The Swedish …
Read More »Vic Mensa: 'I Am a Gun Owner, and I Vehemently Support Gun Control'
Vic Mensais no stranger to gun violence, and has emerged as an avid gun control advocate throughout his rising career as a rapper – he’s signed to Jay Z’s Roc Nation, and released his major label debut, the well-received ‘The Autobiography,’ in 2018. He is also a gun-owner and has …
Read More »How Trump's Disastrous Putin Press Conference Is Playing on Fox News
On Monday, Donald Trump learned the hard way that openly conspiring with an adversary on live television is not a good look for the president of the United States. After spending 45 minutes bashing U.S. intelligence and praising Vladimir Putin– who stood grinning at Trump’s side – the president was …
Read More »Animal Collective Announce New Audiovisual Album 'Tangerine Reef'
Animal Collective have teamed with art-science duo Coral Morphologic on a new audiovisual album dubbed Tangerine Reef. The indie rock band – this time featuring members Avey Tare, Deakin and Geologist but not Panda Bear – will release the Tangerine Reef album on August 17th, the same day that the …
Read More »Trump v. Putin: What to Expect From the Meeting in Helsinki
Vladimir Putin was once asked how his background as a KGB officer helped him lead Russia. The main thing, Putin replied, was his experience “working with people.” According to Russia expert and Trump advisor Fiona Hill, this innocuous-sounding bit of “KGB jargon,” as she described it in her book, Mr. …
Read More »Good Charlotte to Lead Press Freedom Concert in Maryland
One month after a deadly shooting targeted a Maryland newspaper, Good Charlotte will perform at an Annapolis music festival celebrating press freedom. The still-in-the-works festival will take place July 28th, exactly one month after a shooter opened fire on the Annapolis office of the Capital Gazette, killing five employees. The …
Read More »What Trump's Supreme Court Nomination Means for LGBTQ Rights
President Trump, America’s top drama queen, did everything he could to infuse his second Supreme Court nomination with ratings-grabbing suspense and pageantry. But for queer Americans, there was only one question to be answered in Monday’s prime-time selection spectacle: Are we definitely screwed, or probably screwed? Justice Anthony Kennedy, whose …
Read More »How 'Won't You Be My Neighbor?' Has Given Birth to Mr. Rogers Fever
One of the year’s weirdest surprises: seeing a 50-year-old kiddie TV classic blow up into a national obsession. But something about Mr. Rogers speaks right to the heart of our moment. And thanks to Morgan Neville’s excellent documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, people are spending the summer with a …
Read More »Watch Hank Williams Jr., Brad Paisley Duet on 'I'm Gonna Get Drunk and Play Hank Williams'
Brad Paisley and Hank Williams Jr. shared a bill together Thursday night in Ohio, and they did what any forward-thinking fan might’ve hoped they would do: join together for a raucous duet of “I’m Gonna Get Drunk and Play Hank Williams.” The meta-country tearjerker first appeared on Williams’ 2012 LP …
Read More »How Does Scott Pruitt Still Have a Job?
It’s hard to make it through 24 hours without discovering a new layer of corruption in Scott Pruitt’s Environmental Protection Agency. The climate change denier has for months been mired in a dazzling array of scandalous allegations covering everything from exorbitant personal security expenditures, to an insatiable appetite for luxury …
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