Oklahoma State Senator David Rader, a Republican, is under fire for referring to Asian American families as “yellow families” when speaking to a criminal justice policy analyst testifying before the legislature about the racial wealth gap, KFOR reported late Friday. In a presentation to the state senate, Damion Shade, who …
Read More »Hear ABBA's Buoyant New Single 'Just a Notion'
ABBA have released a new track, “Just a Notion.” The hopeful, upbeat song is the third single off the Swedish pop group’s upcoming album, Voyage. “Wikipedia says this track was recorded in September 1978, which sounds about right,” band member Björn Ulvaeus said in a statement. “That puts it in …
Read More »Grammy Contenders 2022: H.E.R. Declares 'R&B Is Not Dead'
This piece is part of Rolling Stone’s second annual Grammy Preview special issue, released ahead of the start of first-round voting. We spoke to some of the year’s biggest artists about the albums and singles that could earn them a nomination — or even a statue come January — and …
Read More »Grammy Contenders 2022: Jazmine Sullivan on the Sisterhood of 'Heaux Tales'
This piece is part of Rolling Stone’s second annual Grammy Preview special issue, released ahead of the start of first-round voting. We spoke to some of the year’s biggest artists about the albums and singles that could earn them a nomination — or even a statue come January — and …
Read More »Parquet Courts Aren't Impressed by Your Smart Fridge on New Song 'Homo Sapien'
Parquet Courts marvel wryly at humanity’s capacity for invention and evolution on their new song, “Homo Sapien,” off of Sympathy for Life, out this Friday, October 22nd. The ragged, guitar-heavy track finds co-frontman A Savage examining modern life’s many “luxuries,” from fridges with TVs to news without “the gloomy bits”: …
Read More »Watch Coldplay, Selena Gomez Showcase 'Let Somebody Go' on 'Corden'
Coldplay and Selena Gomez brought their collaborative track “Let Somebody Go” to The Late Late Show last night, marking their debut television performance of the single. “Let Somebody Go” appears on Coldplay’s ninth album, Music of the Spheres, which dropped last week. The group initially released a lyric video for …
Read More »You're Gonna Have to Wait a While to See 'Black Panther 2' and 'Thor 4'
Disney is delaying the release dates of several major movies, including highly anticipated Marvel flicks like Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Thor: Love and Thunder, Variety reports. The delays will only amount to a few months at most, and they were reportedly caused by production delays as opposed to any …
Read More »Jon Stewart Cautions: It's a 'Mistake' to Focus Only on Trump
Jon Stewart thinks the media’s focus on Donald Trump misses the larger point, which is that our democracy is being threatened by much larger systems, he told CNN’s Jake Tapper on State of the Union Sunday. The comedian appeared on the news network to promote his new show,The Problem With …
Read More »Why the Storytelling Formula for Unscripted Sports Series Still Resonates With Audiences
Storytelling is a universal way to engage an audience. It unites an emotion with an idea that helps us grasp the patterns of living. Universally relatable storytelling themes that dominate in entertainment include romance, family, rivalry and nostalgia — all of which prove to transcend time. The film and TV …
Read More »'Halloween Kills'…Your Desire to See Any More 'Halloween' Movies
Do you remember the rush of seeing Halloween? No, not John Carpenter’s 1978 original, the Rosetta stone of modern horror and greatest man-meets-knife film ever. (And for the record, we don’t mean Rob Zombie’s 2007 love-letter-slash-living-wax-museum-exhibit to Carpenter’s slashsterpiece, either.) We’re talking about David Gorden Green’s 2018 version, which reset …
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