Megan Thee Stallion is a lithe clotheshorse of a wordsmith whose lyricall bread and butter is commanding men to pleasure her. Never mind that none of them, as depicted in her catchy, think-piece-dominating songs, ever truly satisfy her; it’s just thrilling to hear one of the game’s sharpest MC’s come …
Read More »Kristen Stewart and Dylan Meyer Are Engaged: 'We're Totally Gonna Do It'
Screenwriter Dylan Meyer put a ring on it. In an interview with Howard Stern via E! News, Kristen Stewart said her partner of two years has proposed to her. “We’re marrying, we’re totally gonna do it,” Stewart said on SiriusXM’sThe Howard Stern Show. “I wanted to be proposed to, so …
Read More »A Pretty Big Portion of Republicans Feel Violence May Be Necessary to 'Save Our Country': Poll
A disturbing new poll revealed that one-third of Republicans believe that violence may be necessary “in order to save our country.” The poll, from the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), demonstrates the hold that conspiracy theories and lies have on the GOP even with Trump out of office. Robert …
Read More »Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe Drop Halloween Treat With 'Living Dead' Video
Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe — the duo of Mark Lanegan and the Icarus Line’s Joe Cardamone — have treated fans this Halloween with their spooky visual for “Living Dead,” the first video off their recently released self-titled debut album. The video — mostly filmed “an undisclosed location somewhere in …
Read More »'Last Night in Soho': Edgar Wright Takes a Straight Razor to the Swinging Sixties
“If I could live any place, at any time,” the wide-eyed young woman says, dreamily, “I’d live in London in the 1960s. It must have been the center of the universe!” Her name is Eloise — call her Ellie — and she’s just moved from Cornwall to good ol’ Blighty …
Read More »Álvaro Díaz Explains the Playful Vision Behind 'Felicilandia'
Felicilandia, the versatile new album from the rapper Álvaro Díaz, is a tribute to an amusement park in Puerto Rico, where he used to have birthday parties as a kid — only Díaz has reimagined that park as a place “where sad kids go to find happiness.” Everything from the …
Read More »“I Was Wrong, Bro”: How Snoop Dogg and Eminem Squashed Their Beef and Recorded a New Song
One of the juiciest rap beefs in recent memory came to a very quiet end a few months back, when Snoop Dogg picked up his phone and made a private apology to fellow Dr. Dre protege Eminem, as Snoop explains on an upcoming episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now …
Read More »Mas Aya's Meditative Soundtrack of Resistance
Nicaragua’s history of resistance weaves its way through Máscaras, the endlessly fascinating album from the Nicaraguan-Canadian artist Mas Aya. On the first track, “Momento Presente,” a voice slips out from a winding flute melody and urges people to stand against oppression. The audio was plucked from video footage of a …
Read More »What Insurrection? Corporate America Can't Stop Bankrolling the Jan. 6 Sedition Caucus
WASHINGTON —For the 147 Republican senators and congressmen who voted against certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, it looked as if their vote to subvert a free and fair election would hit them where it hurt most: their campaign bank accounts. In the days after the insurrection and the certification …
Read More »'Nobody's Off-Limits,' Including Trump, Jan. 6 Chair Says of Subpoenas
The chair of the Jan. 6 Select Committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), said that he is open to the idea of subpoenaing former President Donald Trump, if that is where the evidence leads. Asked onFace the Nation by host Margaret Brennan if the committee would subpoena Trump himself, Thompson said …
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