The Dead Kennedys‘ Jello Biafra and his band the Guantanamo School of Medicine recently shared a scorching anti-Trump track, “Satan’s Combover, from their new album, Tea Party Revenge Porn. “Satan’s Combover” is an obvious nod to the president’s singular hairstyle, and the epic six-and-a-half-minute punk salvo (which was actually written …
Read More »Zoe Lister-Jones on Conjuring Up 'The Craft' Sequel
If you grew up in the Nineties, you were blessed with a steady supply of witch’s brew. Between movies like Hocus Pocus, Practical Magic, Eve’s Bayou, and The Witches — and in TV shows like Charmed, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Sabrina the Teenage Witch — outsider females with supernatural …
Read More »Paris Jackson Announces Debut Solo Album, Drops Victorian 'Let Down' Video
Paris Jackson has released the new single “Let Down,” off her upcoming debut solo album Wilted, out November 13th via Republic Records. Written by Jackson and Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull, the folky track opens with an acoustic guitar and erupts into lush instrumentation.Directed by Meredith Alloway, the video features Jackson …
Read More »'His House' Review: A Haunting, Out of the Past
Bol (Sope Dìrísù) and Rial (Wunmi Mosaku) are a young pair of asylum seekers fleeing the all-consuming violence of South Sudan by way of a dangerous and all-too-familiarly tragic voyage across the Mediterranean. We get glimpses of that violence at home, as well as the voyage toward ostensible security in …
Read More »Big Hit Entertainment's Global CEO Lenzo Yoon — Future 25
Big Hit’s name isn’t often uttered in the same breath as Universal, Sony, and Warner — not yet. “We still have a long way to go,” says Lenzo Yoon, the company’s new global CEO. But he hints that the K-pop powerhouse, which recently founded Big Hit America and debuted on …
Read More »Hear Jesse Malin's New Protest Song 'Ameri'ka'
Jesse Malin asks if you’re better off now than you were four years ago in his new protest song “Ameri’ka,” a soft but hard-hitting ballad that takes stock of our current nightmare. “Adam got the virus like when Reagan was in charge/history repeats itself, the killers are at large,” he …
Read More »Flashback: Genesis Take Fans Back to the 'Distant, Dark' Seventies
This week, Genesis released new photos of rehearsals for their upcoming Last Domino? reunion tour. They show Phil Collins, Tony Banks, and Mike Rutherford at a practice facility somewhere in Europe. Collins is seated with a cane resting on a music stand, but he’s near a tiny drum kit, meaning …
Read More »TikTok Stars Are Being Turned Into Deepfake Porn Without Their Consent
Last summer, a pornographic video of a prominent TikTok creator started going viral on social media. A screengrab of the video on TikTok made its way to the Instagram account @tiktokroom, along with a comment from the creator whose face was posted in the video. “It’s a deepfake but still, …
Read More »Joe Biden Para Presidente
Hemos vivido los últimos cuatro años bajo un hombre rotundamente incapaz de ser presidente. Afortunadamente para los EE. UU., Joe Biden es lo opuesto a Donald Trump en casi todas las categorías: el nominado presidencial demócrata demuestra aptitud, compasión, firmeza, integridad y moderación. Y quizá lo más importante en este …
Read More »Inside One Lawyer's Quest to End Solitary Confinement
In 2008, Matthew Coyte, an attorney with a tiny private practice in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was approached by a potential client. Stephen Slevin had spent nearly two years in solitary confinement in Doña Ana County Detention Center, where he developed fungal infections and bedsores, removed his own aching tooth, suffered …
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