Days after blaming former President Obama for Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, President Trump is reportedly considering blocking $250 in military aid intended for the nation that has for years been the target of Russian military aggression. On Wednesday, Politico reported that Trump asked officials, particularly National Security …
Read More »How Teens on TikTok Drew National Attention to a Teachers' Labor Issue
Grown-ups tend to believe that teens are only obsessed with Snapchat kitty filters, Lil Nas X, and crawling into bathtubs with dead squids. But this is both unfair and inaccurate. When all is said and done, the kids are alright, as demonstrated by the recent efforts of Gillian Sullivan, a …
Read More »RS Charts: Young Thug Passes Drake to Top Artists 500
Young Thug leapt from Number 44 to Number One on the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart for the week of August 16th to August 22nd. The rapper garnered 161.3 million song streams on the strength of his new album, So Much Fun, which moved 118,400 album units as it also …
Read More »Guitarist Neal Casal: The Lost Interview
While he may not have had the name recognition of some of the artists with whom he played, guitarist Neal Casal was revered across all music genres. He recorded with country stars Willie Nelson and Shooter Jennings, played slippery leads as a member of Ryan Adams’ Cardinals, advanced the blues-jam …
Read More »Watch Taylor Swift Open 2019 VMAs with 'You Need to Calm Down,' 'Lover'
Taylor Swift performed the two most recent singles off her seventh album Lover at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards: “You Need to Calm Down” and “Lover.” Swift is nominated for 12 awards at this year’s ceremony. Swift opened the performance on a lawn chair alongside Todrick Hall doing a slightly …
Read More »Two Kids Were Left Alone for Eight Days Following Mississippi ICE Raid
When immigration officials raided a series of food-processing plants in Mississippi on August 7 and arrested close to 700 suspected undocumented immigrants, it was clear that children were left behind without their parents. But, “If both parents were arrested, one parent was sent home within 24 hours,” a spokesman from …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: That Dog, 'If You Just Didn't Do It'
That Dog were a beloved band in the Nineties whose legacy has only grown since they released their last LP, 1997’s near-perfect Retreat From the Sun. They just released a deluxe edition of their 1995 debut album, and they recently played their first show in 19 years. In an example …
Read More »Hear Motorhead Frontman Lemmy Kilmister's Lost Country Duet 'The Mask'
Lemmy Kilmister started writing the outlaw country song “The Mask” in 1979 — the same year he put out the screaming, hard-rock albums Overkill and Bomber with his band Motörhead — but didn’t finish it until three decades later. Now, a decade after that – and a couple of years …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: The Rails, 'Call Me When It Call Goes Wrong'
The Rails are a husband-and-wife folk-rock duo comprised of Kami Thompson and James Walbourne. Thompson is the daughter of another husband-and-wife folk-rock duo, Richard and Linda Thompson, who made some essential albums in the Seventies before giving the world what might be the most gruelingly real divorce record of all …
Read More »Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss Confirmed for Fourth 'Matrix' Film
Get ready for a whole new pill to swallow when The Matrix returns for a fourth installment, with both Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss set to reprise their roles as Neo and Trinity, Varietyreports. Filmmaker Lana Wachowski, who co-directed the original film with her sister Lilly, will write and direct …
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