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From a cultural standpoint, RZA‘s timing over the past year could not have been worse. On March 14th, 2020, the rapper/music producer/film director was all set to premiereCut Throat City,his third feature, at South by Southwest. Instead, lockdowns began and the film was pushed back multiple times, only to see …

This month Brontez Purnell released his new book, ‘100 Boyfriends,’ and now his friend and Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong shares his enthusiastic support of his EP ‘White Boy Music’. Though wrapped in the artifice of (as Purnell puts it) “exploring Eighties White Boy fake mod modalities,” White Boy …

Late in It’s a Sin, HBO Max‘s limited series looking at the dawn of the AIDS crisis through the eyes of a group of young Londoners, a character lies on his deathbed, recalling with a smile all the parties he threw and men he slept with before he got sick. …

As on-the-road misbehavior went, it was pretty tame. On tour in Seattle in the spring of 1972, Jeff Forehan and three of his shaggy-haired bandmates got ahold of some weed. Squeezing into a hotel bathroom, the pop singers happily toked up, using the ceiling fan to suck up the smoke …

Syd has returned with her first solo single since 2017, “Missing Out.” Described in a press release as an “anti-Valentine’s Day ode,” the track finds Syd lacing a gorgeous, aching melody over a sparse arrangement of bruised synths, clattering drums, and the occasional chime of a glockenspiel. “Hope you finding …

Mariah Carey has dropped a special gift ahead of Valentine’s Day, a new live mix of her 2005 hit, “We Belong Together.” Dubbed “Mimi’s Late Night Valentine’s Mix,” the performance clip finds Carey and her backing band delivering a slightly stripped-down, but no less punchy rendition of the classic track. …

President Biden informed Congress on Thursday that he has rescinded Trump’s 2019 national emergency declaration that redirected billions in order to fund construction of the former president’s beloved border wall with Mexico. In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the president said Trump’s declaration was unnecessary and the taxpayer …

In the 1980s, few figures loomed larger – or exerted greater influence – on the national stage than televangelist Jerry Falwell. Under Falwell’s stewardship, the Moral Majority political organization counterpunched the previous decade’s progressive strides, mobilizing various evangelical and rightwing Christian groups into a potent, unified conservative political force. The …

Elton John and Michael Caine star in a new PSA for Britain’s National Heath Service encouraging people to get the Covid-19 vaccine. The clip finds John cheerily auditioning for the spot, but struggling to meet the director’s needs. His introduction is either too showbiz-y or not showbiz-y enough, and the …

The Foo Fighters appeared on The Tonight Show Monday, February 9th, to perform a song from their new album, Medicine at Midnight, while frontman Dave Grohl joined Jimmy Fallon for an interview. The Foos sent in a characteristically supersized rendition of their track, “Waiting on a War.” The group even …