Former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony says he was approached last year about the possibility of a reunion tour with the band that was supposed to take place this summer. It would have been the first time all four members of the classic David Lee Roth lineup shared a stage …
Read More »Watch Michelle Obama, James Corden Settle USA vs. U.K. Feud With Dodgeball
Over two centuries after the end of the American Revolutionary War, James Corden and Michelle Obama set out to end the USA versus U.K. debate once and for all with a game of dodgeball on The Late Late Show Monday. The pair assembled two crack teams, with Obama enlisting Melissa …
Read More »Are the Major Record Companies Signing Too Many Artists?
It’s the stat I just can’t get out of my head. In 2017, according to a report backed by the U.S. music trade group RIAA, major record companies signed a total of 658 acts — a number up 12 percent over 2014. In 2019, that figure (judging by the subsequent …
Read More »Fricke's Picks: The Minus 5, Filthy Friends, Garcia Peoples
Of the four new albums here, two feature a modern-rock journeyman in exuberant form and back to work, against extraordinary odds. Another affirms the full-strength return of a great American band, 30 years after they broke up. And they are all rich in the exhilarating — and healing — chime …
Read More »Joe Biden's Anti-Abortion Past (and Present) Is Haunting His Candidacy
Back in 1994, then-Senator Joe Biden wrote a letter to a constituent who had contacted his office with a request. “Please don’t force me to pay for abortions against my conscience,” he said. Biden assured the man he understood, promising that any position he would take on abortion in the …
Read More »Another Trans Woman of Color Has Been Found Dead by Homicide In Dallas This Year
An Arlington, Texas woman named Chynal Lindsey was found dead at the bottom of a lake in Dallas, marking the latest in a series of violent deaths of transgender women of color in the Dallas area this year. Lindsey, 26, was found in Dallas’s White Rock Lake at 5:30 p.m. …
Read More »Meek Mill Blasts 'Racist as Hell' Las Vegas Hotel for Banning Him 'Without Incident'
Meek Mill accused a Las Vegas hotel of being “racist as hell” for barring the rapper from the property and threatening to have him arrested for trespassing. In a series of tweets and videos, Meek Mill documented his encounter with the security team at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. According …
Read More »Trump's Tax Returns: Leaked IRS Memo Says Releasing Them Is 'Mandatory'
Last month, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) formally requested six years of President Trump’s tax returns from the IRS. Federal law holds that the the IRS, which is overseen by the Treasury Department, must comply with the request. But Trump maintained that his administration would not …
Read More »How Alynda Segarra Created Hurray for the Riff Raff After Her Abortion
When I was 19, I had an abortion. I was homeless, bouncing around couches and floors in New Orleans. I was in an emotionally abusive relationship. I was not myself, I was lost. One morning I woke up sick. I got a pregnancy test. Positive. I did not have a …
Read More »'The Souvenir': How a Filmmaker Turned Her Memories Into a Masterpiece
Joanna Hogg has, by her own admission, a decent memory. Not perfect, mind you — “Which is why I always hesitate when the word ‘autobiographical’ comes up,” the British director says, taking in the afternoon light as it streams through a window in A24’s New York office. “You need a …
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