Lizzo performed at the MTV Video Music Awards, and it turns out she is 100% that bitch. The pop star, still on a high from being featured on Barack Obama’s playlist, performed “Truth Hurts” and “Good as Hell” in front of an inflatable ass. “You coulda had a bad bitch, …
Read More »Hear Wale Celebrate Women's Equality Day on Upbeat Single 'BGM'
Wale has dropped a new single in honor of Women’s Equality Day, which takes place August 26th. The track, “BGM,” highlights the success of specific women in pop culture, and advocates for equal pay. On the upbeat, soulful number Wale invokes Issa Rae and Taraj P. Henson, and celebrates Black …
Read More »CNCO Pay Tribute to Celia Cruz in New Song 'Ya Tú Sabes'
The latest release by pan-Latin boy band CNCO is dripping with drama — and azucar. Titled “Ya Tú Sabes,” or “You Already Know,” it’s the lead single off their upcoming seven-song EP, Que Quiénes Somos, out October 11th. A hypnotic blend of salsa and Latin trap, the Tommy Brown-produced “Ya …
Read More »'Ready or Not' Review: Here Kills the Bride
What a decadent blast to watch a comic takedown of the rich done with the rude energy of a horror thriller and the courage of its own manic anti-marriage convictions. Directed with ferocious flair by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (part of the fright collective Radio Silence) from a game-on …
Read More »On a Hot Summer Night, Meat Loaf Joined the 'Bat Out of Hell' Cast Onstage
Meat Loaf joined the cast of the Bat Out of Hell musical on Tuesday evening for “You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night).” The New York performance marked the singer’s first time onstage in over two years — he last appeared at the Bat Out …
Read More »King Diamond Plots Fall Tour in Support of Upcoming Album 'The Institute'
The “vampire” will return this fall when Mercyful Fate frontman and shock rocker extraordinaire King Diamond brings his solo show to North America for a post-Halloween tour. A teaser for the trek shows a hand clawing from the darkness inside an insane asylum, a quick glimpse of the singer’s famed …
Read More »Chris Brown: Felony Battery Charge Dropped Over Tampa Nightclub Incident
The state of Florida has dropped a felony battery charge against Chris Brown stemming from an April 2017 incident at a Tampa nightclub, the Tampa Bay Times reports. Brown was accused of sucker-punching the club’s in-house photographer, who was reportedly taking pictures of the singer, even though he’d been warned …
Read More »Travers: Peter Fonda, The Easiest Rider of Them All
The Easy Rider himself, Peter Fonda, was pushing 80 when he passed away early Friday morning — it was respiratory failure due to lung cancer that took him out. But that gamechanging 1969 movie made him immortal, freezing him in time as Wyatt, the stoned biker chasing an elusive freedom. …
Read More »Hear John Coltrane's Previously Unreleased 'Blue World' From 1964 Soundtrack Session
Next month, John Coltrane‘s label, Impulse!/Ume, will release Blue World, a new album by the legendary saxophonist. Recorded in 1964 and largely unreleased until now, the 37-minute session was intended as a soundtrack for Le chat dans le sac (“The Cat in the Bag”), a film by the Quebecois director …
Read More »Jeffrey Epstein Autopsy Finds Broken Bones in Neck, Cause of Death Still Pending
An autopsy following the “apparent suicide” of Jeffrey Epstein revealed that the convicted sex offender and disgraced financier had broken bones in his neck at the time of his death. That includes the hyoid bone, which when broken is more consistent with victims of strangulation than hangings, the Washington Post …
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