Lil Nas X made his Saturday Night Live musical guest debut on the Season 46 finale, performing his two recent singles and enduring a wardrobe malfunction on live television. During the rapper’s “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” performance, Lil Nas X’s fire leather pants appear to tear in the …
Read More »Olivia Rodrigo Is a Revelatory New Pop Voice on 'Sour.' Deal With It
In the first few seconds of her debut album, Sour, Olivia Rodrigo declares, “I want it to be, like, messy!” That shouldn’t be too difficult for a pop star who emerged seemingly out of nowhere in January, a Disney actress whose hit “Drivers License” ignited widespread interest in a love …
Read More »Jack Antonoff's Bleachers Preview New Album With 'Stop Making This Hurt'
Jack Antonoff’s Bleachers have released a new song, “Stop Making This Hurt,” which will appear on the group’s next album, Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night, out July 30th via RCA Records. The track is a boisterous pop-rock tune led by punchy piano, rich horn stabs, and sliced through …
Read More »'SNL': Elon Musk Admits Dogecoin Is 'A Hustle' on Weekend Update
Elon Musk, self-proclaimed “The Dogefather,” discussed Dogecoin and cryptocurrency in general on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update. Playing financial expert Lloyd Ostertag — although the character was basically just the Tesla mogul himself — Musk explained of cryptocurrency, “They’re a type of digital money, but instead of being controlled by …
Read More »Tawny Kitaen, Whitesnake's 'Here I Go Again' Video Star, Dead at 59
Tawny Kitaen, the model and actress who appeared in a string of Whitesnake music videos — including 1987’s iconic “Here I Go Again,” in which she danced on the hood of a Jaguar — has died at 59. Kitaen, born Julie E. Kitaen in San Diego, died in her Newport …
Read More »Dave Grohl's Van-Touring Doc 'What Drives Us': 11 Things We Learned
“All of the biggest bands in the world, they had to start somewhere. Everybody I know started out like this: in a van,” Dave Grohl says at the onset of his new documentary What Drives Us, a film that chronicles the early touring days of some of rock’s most enduring …
Read More »The Mars Volta's 'La Realidad de los Sueños' Is a Time Machine, a Treasure Chest, a Key
Discovering the Mars Volta has always felt like finding the key to another dimension teeming with monsters and magical arcana; twisted fables and dangerous lore. It’s fitting, then, that their new career-spanning boxset, La Realidad de los Sueños, resembles some kind of trippy, seemingly bottomless treasure chest — an aural …
Read More »Electricity Companies Urge Biden to Set Standard to Reduce Emissions 80 Percent by 2030
As President Biden prepares to announce a U.S. emissions pledge, a group of electricity companies sent him a letter urging the president to set clean energy standard (CES) goal of reducing the industry’s carbon emissions by 2030. The coalition of thirteen power companies, which includes PSEG, Exelon Corp. and Talen …
Read More »Angel Olsen Comes Out: 'I'm Gay'
Angel Olsen took to Instagram on Friday to announce that she’s gay, posting a photo of her partner on the site. The post featured several pictures of her partner, including their loafers and tattoos. Olsen also posted a photo of herself on her Instagram story, writing “I’m gay!!!!!” https://www.instagram.com/p/CNvRyf1jwhB/ Olsen recently …
Read More »David Bowie's 1970 Recordings Collected for New 'Width of a Circle' Compilation
David Bowie‘s The Width of a Circle, a collection of non-LP singles, alternate versions, and BBC sessions that he recorded in 1970, is set for release on May 28th. The late singer’s latest archival compilation boasts 21 unreleased recordings, including many culled from a 14-song session for John Peel that …
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