M.I.A. reflects on her creative journey and a childhood defined by the Sri Lankan civil war in the new trailer for Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., the upcoming documentary about the rapper-activist. “I had to deal with the fact that I was different and I was an immigrant,” M.I.A. recalls. “Music was my medicine. …
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To any actual eighth-grader, Bo Burnham, the director of the achingly empathetic new film Eighth Grade, must seem old. So, so old. How old is he, you ask? In Internet years, the comedian-filmmaker is so old, he went viral before “Dramatic Chipmunk.” The man is so old, his teenage skits, …
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In the most famous, comically potent moment of Da Ali G Show, Sacha Baron Cohen‘s Kazakhstan alter ego Borat takes the stage at a country and western bar in Tucson, Arizona to perform a song called, “In My Country There Is Problem,” whose lyrics include this refrain: Throw the Jew …
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“It’s the perfect tour, I think,” says Rob Zombie about Twins of Evil: The Second Coming, his co-headlining jaunt with Marilyn Manson that kicks off July 11th at Detroit’s DTE Energy Music Theatre. The trek, which pits Zombie’s B-movie-splattered groove metal against Manson’s industrial-goth exorcisms, is a match made in …
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It’s been a dozen years since Suzanne Santo and Ben Jaffe sat together in the lobby of a West Hollywood pot dispensary, acoustic guitars in hand, strumming the song that would eventually become the closer for every HoneyHoney show. “Those were some of our first gigs, playing the weed shops …
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