John Oliver dissected America’s outdated and underfunded death investigation system on Last Week Tonight. “A death certificate isn’t like a degree from USC — it actually means something,” host John Oliver joked. And he spent the main segment detailing how the process of producing one has never been more of …
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DJ Khaled and SZA teamed up as royal warriors in the video for their collaboration “Just Us.” The visual, directed by Joseph Kahn, features SZA and Khaled battling gladiator-style and emerging victorious, eventually garnering them praise from the kingdom they reign over. “Just Us” appears on Khaled’s latest album Father …
Read More »Grumpy Cat, Pouty-Faced Internet Sensation, Dead at 7
Grumpy Cat, the pouty-faced feline that became an Internet sensation and even spawned a Christmas movie and bestselling book, has died at the age of 7, the cat’s owner confirmed on social media Friday. “We are unimaginably heartbroken to announce the loss of our beloved Grumpy Cat,” Tabatha Bundesen, Grumpy …
Read More »In Praise of 'John Wick,' The Last Great American Action-Movie Franchise
It was just a guy’s name. You could guess that he was played by Keanu Reeves, given that we’d seen laughing with a woman over a meal and kissing her against a picture-postcard vision of Manhattan’s skyline. Then we go from Sad Keanu sitting bedside in a hospital to Sadder …
Read More »See City Girls Party in Miami in New 'Careless' Video
The Miami rap duo City Girls have dropped their video for “Careless.” The two-minute clip was filmed last year before one-half of the group, JT, reported for a 24-month jail sentence on fraud charges in July 2018. JT has been unable to record music videos alongside with her bandmate Yung …
Read More »The Eternal Revenue Stream of Led Zeppelin
While Led Zeppelin fans were busy digging up their favorite old T-shirts and nostalgia-dusted tour photos in the months leading up to the band’s 50th anniversary this year, Tim Fraser-Harding’s team at Warner Music Group was drawing up a battle plan. As Warner Music Group’s president of global catalog of …
Read More »Go Down the Rabbit Hole with Jenny Lewis' Handpicked Weed Strain
Jenny Lewis teamed up with California cultivators Glass House Farms for her very own handpicked weed strain. Named “The Rabbit Hole” after the final track on her recent album On the Line, the seeds were reportedly first distributed at a Grateful Dead show in 1991. The strain is described in …
Read More »Peggy Lipton, 'Twin Peaks' and 'The Mod Squad' Actress, Dead at 72
Peggy Lipton, the model and actress who starred on The Mod Squad and Twin Peaks, has died at the age of 72 after a battle with cancer. Rashida and Kidida Jones, Lipton’s daughters from her marriage to music producer Quincy Jones, confirmed their mother’s death in a statement to the …
Read More »Justin Bieber Is Right: Parties Are Terrible. Abolish Parties
There are levels of social gatherings. You have your shindigs, your get-togethers, festivals, ragers, raves and riots. They’re all annoying in different ways, but occur infrequently enough that their existence is tolerable. One can attend any of these gatherings and act in accordance with the chaos that comes with having …
Read More »A$AP Ferg, A$AP Rocky Salute High Life on New Song 'Pups'
A$AP Ferg recruits A$AP Rocky for his boisterous new single “Pups.” Throughout the track, the A$AP Mob members flex about “livin’ the dream” over a subtle wah-wah guitar loop and soulful humming. It’s about to get uglier than Balenciagas/Felt bad I never finished college,” Ferg rhymes on the track. “Now …
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