Bruce Springsteen has wrapped up every performance of Springsteen on Broadway with “Born To Run” since the show launched in October 2017, but on Tuesday night, he decided to deviate from the script. “You’re a beautiful audience,” he told the crowd after finishing “Born To Run.” “You’re so good, you …
Read More »ICE Officers to Asylum Seekers: 'Don't You Know That We Hate You People?'
The Trump child-separation horror is far from over. According to the government’s own numbers, released late last week, as many as 3,000 children were yet to be reunited with their parents. On Tuesday, the administration failed to comply with a court order to return all children under the age of …
Read More »Remembering Meredith Hunter, the Fan Killed at Altamont
Saul Austerlitz’s new book Just a Shot Away: Peace, Love, and Tragedy With the Rolling Stones at Altamont is the story of the concert that was going to be the West Coast Woodstock, and another triumph of the 1960s counterculture. Looking at the musicians, fans, filmmakers, bikers and journalists present …
Read More »Hear Meek Mill's New EP 'Legends of the Summer'
Meek Mill has unveiled a new EP. Legends of the Summer is the rapper’s first project he has revealed since he was released from prison on bail in April. The four-track set includes his previously post-jail released single with Miguel, “Stay Woke.” The pair performed the track at the BET …
Read More »'The First Purge' Review: Horror Prequel Gets Even More Pulpy, Political
“Who are you angry at?” “Everyone.“ This is the very first exchange you hear in The First Purge, and to be fair, you can’t accuse the franchise’s latest entry of burying the lede. Given that the person answering the question is a scarred, grinning, maniacal caricature of a crack fiend …
Read More »If Michael Cohen Flips, Trump Officially Loses Control of the Narrative
Michael Cohen has had a lot of time to think since April 9th, the day federal agents raided his office, apartment and hotel room. For the past few months, Donald Trump’s former legal counsel and “fixer” has been holed up in a Manhattan hotel room, presumably mulling over whether to …
Read More »'Woman Walks Ahead': Biopic on Feminist Painter Is One Big Falsehood
Widowed New York painter Caroline Weldon (Jessica Chastain) travels to South Dakota in 1889 to do a portrait of Sitting Bull (Canadian actor/dancer Michael Greyeyes). It’s the sort true-story premise would be a fascinating starting point for a movie … if said film had more than a nodding acquaintance with …
Read More »Tool's Maynard James Keenan: Rape Allegation Is 'Despicable False Claim'
Tool‘s Maynard James Keenan denied accusations that he raped a 17-year-old woman in 2000, calling the allegation a “despicable false claim.” “Many thanks to those of you who saw right through this despicable false claim that only does damage to the #MeToo movement,” Keenan wrote on Twitter. “And shame on …
Read More »Watch Injured Tom Morello Recruit Fan for Rage Against the Machine Song
Three days after undergoing surgery on his broken hand, Tom Morello was back onstage in Stockholm, Sweden, performing live with Prophets of Rage, the supergroup/“elite task force of revolutionary musicians” featuring members of Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy and Cypress Hill. During the band’s Tuesday set, the guitarist got …
Read More »Rashida Jones, Donald Glover Team for Time's Up PSA
Rashida Joneshas directed a new PSA for Time’s Up about sexual harassment in the workplace that features narration from Donald Glover.The animated clipis available to watch on Buzzfeed. The PSA examines the more quotidian forms of workplace harassment, such as unwanted touching and making comments about a coworker’s appearance. It …
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