Credit where credit’s due: The Loudest Voice, Showtime‘s seven-part miniseries about the rise and fall of Fox News chairman/alleged chronic sexual harasser Roger Ailes, is dedicated to living up to its name. From the moment that Russell Crowe‘s jowly, handsy version of the political consultant-turned-conservative kingmaker shows up in a …
Read More »How 'Yesterday' Breathes New Life Into the Beatles' Music
No pun intended, but imagine a world in which no one has ever heard of the Beatles or any of their songs. That’s the clever premise behind Yesterday (out June 28th), the new film directed by Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire) and co-written by Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a …
Read More »Hear Prophets of Rage's Fiery New Song 'Made With Hate'
Prophets of Rage – the supergroup boasting members of Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy’s Chuck D and Cypress Hill’s B-Real – warn of encroaching fascism in the band’s surprise new song “Made With Hate.” A portion of “Made With Hate” originally appeared within “The Ballot or the Bullet,” a …
Read More »Hear Tyler Childers' Breezy New Song 'All Your'n'
Tyler Childers pledges his love to the one he’s always missing in the breezy new song “All Your’n,” the latest release from his upcoming album Country Squire,due out August 2nd. With its relaxed tempo and gently rising melody, “All Your’n” is one of the most laid-back entries in the Kentucky …
Read More »Ariana Grande Extends 'Sweetener' Tour
Ariana Grande has added a second North American leg to her 2019 Sweetener world tour. The 19-date run launches November 9th at the Nassau Memorial Coliseum in Nassau, New York and includes stops in Atlanta, Nashville, Dallas and Las Vegas before wrapping December 21st at the Forum in Los Angeles. …
Read More »Father of Sandy Hook Victim Wins Defamation Suit Against Massacre Deniers
Leonard Pozner, father of the Sandy Hook massacre’s youngest victim, has won a defamation lawsuit against the editors of a book that claims the 2012 shooting in Newtown, Connecticut never occurred. Wisconsin’s Dane County Circuit Judge Frank Remington issued a summary judgment on Monday against James Fetzer and Mike Palecek, …
Read More »Pixies Unveil Recording Process in 'It's a Pixies Podcast' Trailer
When Pixies set out to record their latest album, Beneath the Eyrie, last December, they decided to do something unprecedented: They taped their entire process in the studio, including songwriting, recording and mixing the music for the record, and allowed British music journalist Tony Fletcher to witness the whole thing. That …
Read More »Watch Bride Battle Husband's Insane Family in New 'Ready or Not' Trailer
A young bride is forced to survive her new family’s outrageous tradition in the bloody and funny trailer for Ready or Not, out August 23rd. The film stars Samara Weaving as Grace, who marries into the wealthy and strange Le Domas family. But after her wedding to Alex Le Domas …
Read More »Hear Drake's Two New Songs 'Omertà' and 'Money in the Grave'
As promised, Drake dropped two new songs Saturday, “Omertà” and “Money in the Grave,” to celebrate the Toronto Raptors’ NBA championship win. The two-track The Best in the World Pack mark the rapper’s first songs of 2019. Outside of the two-pack’s cover art, neither track mention the basketball team or …
Read More »Madonna Takes A Weird, Wild Ride on 'Madame X'
Madonna albums from this century fall into two categories: the playing-it-safe ones, and the “WTF is she thinking?” ones. You might be tempted to assume the mega-weird ones are better, but nothing is ever that straightforward in the Madonna universe. Confessions on a Dance Floor was her totally safe execution …
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