President Trump, who is always in a self-promotion mode, wants Americans who are suffering enough to seek assistance to think that he is largely responsible for their most recent meal. Letters signed by Trump have been included in government-funded food relief packages shipped to needy families by the U.S. Department …
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Four Non Blondes’ 1993 smash “What’s Up?” isn’t exactly the kind of song that leaps to mind when you think “horror movie trailer.” But in the new teaser for the first slate of thrillers in Blumhouse Production’s Welcome to Blumhouse series, the familiar strains of Linda Perry’s iconic chorus simmer …
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Rumor has it none of us are going anywhere for a while. So whether you’re watching YouTube videos of the ocean, floating on a pool of existential dread, or increasingly reminding your quarantine family that it’s five o’clock somewhere, let these songs soundtrack the delusion that you’re on vacation anywhere …
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Hayley Williams released an acoustic cover of Radiohead’s “Fake Plastic Trees” on Instagram Monday as part of her “self-serenade” series of covers. (Past renditions have included Phoebe Bridgers’ “Smoke Signals” and Björk’s “Unison.”) In the caption for the cover, recorded as an iPhone voice memo, Williams explained that it would …
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The FBI searched the Calabasas, California home of controversial YouTube star Jake Paul on Wednesday in connection to an incident at an Arizona shopping mall, according to ABC 7. During the raid, authorities confiscated numerous firearms, the station reports. “The FBI is investigating allegations of criminal acts surrounding the incident …
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Jefferson Starship have shared “It’s About Time,” a new single co-written by Grace Slick. The track appears on their upcoming EP Mother of the Sun, out August 21st. “Old white men have had their turn,” lead singer Cathy Richardson declares in the video over blaring guitars. “Thousands of years, what …
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Wolfgang Van Halen has yet to release a single song from his long-in-the-works debut solo album, but he’s already bracing himself for the reaction it might elicit from the rock community. “Being who I am, I think people at least will be interested in what my work will sound like, …
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Grant Imahara, an electrical engineer best known as part of the build team on the long-running Discovery series MythBusters, died Monday, The New York Times reports. He was 49. A representative for Discovery confirmed Imahara’s death, with the cause believed to be a brain aneurysm. No other details were available. …
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In the six weeks since nationwide Black Lives Matter protests rose up after Minneapolis police killed George Floyd, musicians have been reckoning with their own complicit role in the longstanding structural racism of the music industry. Those efforts have ranged from the largely symbolic (removing the word “urban” from radio …
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Weeks after music’s Blackout Tuesday, which sparked a plethora of heated, industry-wide conversations about systemic racism, companies and executives are still debating the use of the word “urban” in job titles, awards categories, and other facets of the music business. While not all organizations are in agreement about what to …
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