The Academy Awards spotlight and a late sales surge helped A Star Is Born‘s soundtrack reclaim Number One on the Billboard 200, ending Ariana Grande‘s two-week reign. Following its Best Original Song win for “Shallow” and Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s Oscars performance, A Star Is Born sold 128,000 total …
Read More »Flashback: Nirvana Play Gut-Wrenching Encore at Last Concert
Nirvana‘s Unplugged concert is often presented as the band’s final show, but they actually played another month of American dates after that November 18th, 1993 MTV taping and then headed over to Europe the following February. Cellist Melora Creager joined the band for this leg, replacing Lori Goldstonwho spent the …
Read More »Watch Sophie Turner's Jean Grey Kill Off Major Character in Shocking 'X-Men: Dark Phoenix' Trailer
Spoilers below! Sophie Turner claims her first victim as Jean Grey/Phoenix in the shocking new trailer for X-Men: Dark Phoenix, which opens June 7th. In the new film, Jean is nearly killed during a space rescue mission after being hit by a mysterious cosmic force that increases her powers, but …
Read More »YouTube Removing Comments From Kids Videos in Attempt to Fix Pedophile Problem
YouTube doesn’t exactly have a sterling reputation among parents these days. From reports of trolls gaming the algorithm to target kids with disturbing or violent content to parents freaking out over the (most likely extremely fake) “Momo” suicide challenge to the mere existence of the Paul brothers, YouTube is known …
Read More »Review: Cochemea Channels Cosmic Jazz-Funk on 'All My Relations'
Cochemea Gastelum is a horn player rooted in groove music: part of a network of players associated with Brooklyn’s Daptone label, he’s worked with Amy Winehouse, Antibalas, and Sharon Jones, an anchor of her band, the Dap-Kings. His first solo album, The Electric Sounds of Johnny Arrow, showed off those …
Read More »Devin Dawson Gets Thrown in Jail in Retro 'Dark Horse' Video
Devin Dawson suffers for his truth in the new “Dark Horse” video, depicting a prisoner who lands in jail in the retro black-and-white clip. “Dark Horse,” written by Dawson with Andy Albert and Andrew DeRoberts, is Dawson’s mission statement for living an authentic, honest life, even if that means existence …
Read More »Oscars 2019: Enter the Shallowverse
The unquestioned highlight of the 2019 Oscars: Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, stealing the show with“Shallow.” It was bittersweet as the final “Shallow” of award season, especially for those of us who were rooting for Gaga to take Best Actress. But every detail was intense. The way she glided to …
Read More »Duff McKagan on New Guns N' Roses Album: 'Oh, It's Real'
Duff McKagan is the latest Guns N’ Roses member to promise that, following their reunion tour, a new album from the band is in the works. In an interview with Trunk Nation Friday, the bassist revealed that he has heard some of Axl Rose-penned music earmarked for Guns N’ Roses’ …
Read More »Dueling Venezuela Benefits Vie Over Talent, and the Country's Fate
Ever since George Harrison’s two concerts for Bangladesh in 1971, charity concerts have been a pop-music staple. Most have been straightforward in their goals of relieving suffering at a particular spot on the globe, but rarely have pop benefits been as complicated as the two dueling concerts for Venezuela scheduled …
Read More »See Elisabeth Moss Go Full Courtney Love in 'Her Smell' Trailer
Elisabeth Moss plays guitar and sings a grungy anthem about flirting with death in the trailer for Her Smell, a new film by Alex Ross Perry. Her blonde hair and the tone of the song, a cover of the Only Ones’ “Another Girl Another Planet,” recall Hole and Courtney Love. …
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