Game of Thrones actress Esmé Bianco is the latest woman to come forward with allegations of physical and psychological abuse against Marilyn Manson, who the actress dated in 2011. After hinting that she was also a Manson survivor in an Instagram post last week — joining fellow actress Evan Rachel …
Read More »Hollywood Hopes to Take Films About GameStop to the Moon
An army of Hollywood production companies are already getting to work on an array of projects centered around the recent GameStop stock chaos. At least three feature films could come out of the story, in which retail traders mostly operating on the WallStreetBets subreddit bought and held massive amounts of …
Read More »Mickey Guyton Performs Historic Single 'Black Like Me' on 'Colbert'
Country star Mickey Guyton performed her historic, Grammy-nominated single, “Black Like Me,” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Monday, February 1st. The performance found Guyton stripping back some of the elements of the song and presenting it with just piano and guitar accompaniment. With a wash of candles …
Read More »Vince Staples Remembers Sophie: 'She Was Never Afraid'
Sophie, the acclaimed U.K. electronic pop producer who died on January 30th, pushed music’s cutting edge forward relentlessly in her work with artists across genres. One of her most notable collaborations was with Vince Staples, producing two tracks for his 2017 album Big Fish Theory. Here, in a new interview, …
Read More »Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Drop Previously Unreleased Live Recordings
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts have dropped previously unreleased live shows via the streaming platform Nugs.net. Jett kicked off the partnership with three concerts spanning her 40-year career: a show from Houston, Texas, in 1983; a Columbus, Ohio, concert from 2015; and a 2018 show that took place at Hellfest …
Read More »Depeche Mode's Martin Gore on New Monkey-Themed Solo EP and Why He's Glad Trump Lost
Martin Gore was recently tweaking his voice electronically — “resynthesizing it,” to use his words — for an avant-garde piece when he realized that it now sounded animalistic. The original vocal was “an almost yelling blues kind of line,” he says, but it had started to seem “human-like.” “It wasn’t …
Read More »Hunks and Homicide: New Spotify Podcast Delves Into the Sordid History of Chippendales
Spotify has released a new trailer for its upcoming podcast series, Welcome to Your Fantasy, which will delve into the complex and sordid history of Chippendales. As host Natalia Petrzela says in the trailer, she was drawn to the Chippendales story because it offered a window into a “strange chapter …
Read More »The QAnon Community Is in Crisis — But On Telegram, It's Also Growing
Now that the Biden administration is officially underway, the QAnon community is in crisis. Adherents to the conspiracy theory, which postulates the existence of a cabal of media and left-wing political figures engaged in a child trafficking ring, believed that Inauguration Day would serve as the Great Awakening, and that …
Read More »Biden's Plan to Address the Pandemic Starts Now
President Joe Biden promised on the campaign trail that if elected, he would implement a massive federal response to address the coronavirus pandemic, including free testing and an aggressive vaccine rollout. The effort is to start almost immediately Wednesday, as in his first hours in office will include executive orders …
Read More »QAnon Shaman's Alleged Note to Mike Pence: 'It's Only a Matter of Time, Justice is Coming'
In striking, unvarnished language, the federal government is now describing the events of January 6th as a “violent insurrection that attempted to overthrow the United States Government” and alleges that “the intent of the Capitol rioters was to capture and assassinate elected officials.” These shocking phrases feature prominently in a …
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