A$AP Ferg has announced a headlining North American tour this fall in support of his upcoming EP Floor Seats. The 33-date “Yedi Tour” launches November 7th in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and wraps December 21st in Brooklyn, New York. Throughout the trek, A$AP Ferg will be joined by producer Murda Beatz, rapper …
Read More »'Making a Murderer': Wisconsin Judge Rejects Steven Avery's Bid for New Trial
A Wisconsin circuit court judge rejected Making a Murderer subject Steven Avery’s bid for a new trial Thursday. The legal team for Avery, whose conviction for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach is the focus of the hit Netflix docuseries, argued that investigators mishandled bone evidence related to the case, …
Read More »See Los Tigres del Norte Perform at Folsom Prison in New Documentary
This Friday Mexican norteño legends Los Tigres del Norte release “La Prisión de Folsom (Folsom Prison Blues),” the lead single and video from the band’s upcoming Netflix Original Documentary, Los Tigres del Norte at Folsom Prison, along with asoundtrack album of the same name. Both are due out in September, …
Read More »Mary J. Blige Pays Tribute to Women's Sacrifices in New Single 'Know'
Mary J. Blige released her latest single “Know” on Thursday, a song that pays tribute to women around the world who have given everything to better their own lives and the lives of their families. “When you hear the word ‘queen,’ you think of a woman getting everything she wants,” …
Read More »Dwight Yoakam, Larry Gatlin Set for Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
The 2019 class of tunesmiths set for induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame have been revealed: Larry Gatlin, Dwight Yoakam, Marcus Hummon, Kostas, Rivers Rutherford, and Sharon Vaughn will be honored during an October ceremony. Representing literally hundreds of familiar hits covering the past five decades, the inductees …
Read More »Watch Bjork Morph in Psychedelic Abyss in 'Losss' Video
Björk has dropped a mind-bending new video for “Losss,” a track off her 2017 album Utopia. The clip is directed by visual artist Tobias Gremmler, who worked on the Icelandic artist’s video for “Tabula Rasa” earlier this summer. The video features Björk shape-shifting in a psychedelic abyss, floating and transforming …
Read More »Violent White Nationalism Is All-American
When Virginia became one of the last two states to ratify the Constitution, in 1789, it was populated mostly by enslaved black people. Those captives were already being counted as three-fifths of a human being in America’s eyes, but white people in Virginia and in other slave states lived in …
Read More »Pete Buttigieg's Antiracist Education
“Oh, fuck,” Pete Buttigieg says, as his body deflates. When I tell him the news, it looks for a moment as though his head might hit the table. The mayor of South Bend, Indiana is sitting opposite from me in one of those WeWork offices that we have just enough …
Read More »July Was the Hottest Month in Human History
July 2019 is now the hottest month in recorded history, the U.N. confirmed on Thursday. At a press conference in New York, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres announced that the month of July had reached 1.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, a figure that “at least equaled if not surpassed …
Read More »Michael Lang Talks Woodstock 50's Collapse: 'We Did Everything We Could'
Talking with Rolling Stone less than an hour after Woodstock 50 was cancelled, festival founder and co-organizer Michael Lang sounds surprisingly at peace. “I’m disappointed,” he says. “But I’ve been sort of prepared.” Many who have been following the months-long rollercoaster ride that was Woodstock 50 were probably also not …
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