Morrissey delivers a cheeky send up of classic music-performance shows like American Bandstand and Soul Train in the new video for “Jacky’s Only Happy When She’s Up On the Stage.” The track appears on Morrissey‘s latest solo album, Low in High School. The Robert Hales-directed clip finds Moz singing the …
Read More »Jedi Confidential: Inside the Dark New 'Star Wars' Movie
A long time ago, a grade-schooler got his hands on a spaceship. He followed the assembly instructions as best he could, snapping on the cannons, the landing gear, the tiny interstellar-chess table. Soon enough, Rian Johnson was holding his very own Millennium Falcon. “The first thing I did,” he recalls, …
Read More »How Timbaland Kicked Oxycontin Addiction, Self-Doubt to Stage Comeback
Talk to any of Timothy “Timbaland” Mosley’s friends, and you’ll hear the same thing: that just a couple of years ago he was a totally different man. They’ll tell you that he had lost his way, becoming depressed, overweight and contemptuous of the severely minimal beats that fueled hits by …
Read More »Taibbi: New Tax Plan Contains Even More Bad News for Student Borrowers
The headline in the New York Times seemed sympathetic: “The House Just Voted To Bankrupt Graduate Students”. The piece by Erin Rousseau, a graduate student at M.I.T., detailed an insidious little virus buried in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, just passed by Republicans in the House. The law would …
Read More »Spike Lee: Why I Turned 'She's Gotta Have It' Into a TV Series
“I want you to know the only reason I’m consenting to this is because I wish to clear my name.” With those words, a twentysomething Brooklyn artist named Nola Darling introduced herself to the world – and, in the process, so did Spike Lee, a prodigiously talented twentysomething writer-director who …
Read More »It's Time to Revisit Trump's History With Women
We’re in the midst of a unique moment in modern history. Women are speaking up about the mistreatment they’ve suffered at the hands of powerful men – and people are actually listening. Whether the end result will be abacklash or aradical reconfiguration of power dynamics in the workforce is yet …
Read More »See Remy Ma, Lil Kim in Triumphant 'Wake Me Up' Video
Remy Ma spurns “fake-ass bitches” withLil Kim in the glossy new clip for “Wake Me Up.” “Wake Me Up” is filled with contemptuous couplets aimed at unnamed liars and back-stabbers. “You a clown, and homey, don’t play that shit/ See, they ain’t slick, be talkin’ all cray and shit,” she …
Read More »'Carpool Karaoke': Pink Sings Hits, Talks First Heartbreak on 'Corden'
Pink kept James Corden company while he was stuck in traffic on Tuesday’s “Carpool Karaoke” segment on the Late Late Show. The pair harmonized “What About Us” from her new album, Beautiful Trauma, before Pink declares a “dance break.” As they start to groove, Corden says, “Wait, is their a …
Read More »See Hunter Hayes Play Live in the Vineyard Festival, Unveil New Video
Earlier this month, Hunter Hayes was one of the artists who participated in the three-day concert event Live in the Vineyard, a private acoustic concert series in the foothills of California’s wine country, the Napa Valley. Hayes performed his just released track, the doo-wop-inspired “You Should Be Loved,” and offered …
Read More »Watch Danielle Bradbery's Intense New 'Worth It' Video
With just three weeks to go before the release of I Don’t Believe We’ve Met, Danielle Bradbery offers a visual introduction to more of the music from her second LP in the form of a video for the gutsy, self-assured “Worth It.” Bathed in striking tones of red, blue and …
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