Iggy Pop will serve as executive producer on the upcoming four-part docuseries Punk, with fashion designer John Varvatos also on board to tell EPIX’s “quintessential story of punk.” The Stooges legend is also among the artists to provide exclusive interviews to the series. Sex Pistols’ John Lydon, Dave Grohl, Blondie’s …
Read More »White Supremacist Chris Cantwell Promises Revenge Over Conviction of Charlottesville Killer
Chris Cantwell, a.k.a. the “Crying Nazi,” responded to the conviction of James Fields, who was found guilty of first-degree murder for plowing a car into protesters in Charlottesville, by threatening “complete and total destruction” of “Charlottesville and the broad left” in a post on social network Gab. On Friday, Fields, …
Read More »Cardi B Appears in Court for Hearing Over Strip Club Assault Charges
Four days after Cardi B faced a possible arrest warrant for skipping a court date stemming from a misdemeanor assault charge, the rapper appeared at a New York court Friday where she was ordered to avoid contact with the two strip club employees involved in the incident. “Defendant Belcalis Almanzar …
Read More »'Tyrel' Review: A Character Study, Racial Satire and Horror Movie All in One
Sebastián Silva’s scathing, scorched-earth take on bro culture,code-switching and how best buddies double as bitter underminers kicks off with a mistake. Two guys are pushing their car down an upstate New York road, shooting the shit. One of them is waiting for his friends to come along and get them, …
Read More »Watch Gucci Mane's Lavish Performance of 'I'm Not Goin” on 'Kimmel'
Gucci Mane and Kevin Gates performed their boastful single “I’m Not Goin’” on Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. The rappers exchanged verses on an unadorned stage, pacing back and forth as they fired off lines about wealth, status and fighting off their naysayers. “They told me, ‘Stop buying all these fancy …
Read More »See Blood Orange Trace Skateboarder's Reality in New 'Dagenham Dream' Video
Blood Orange unveiled a compelling new video for his Negro Swan cut “Dagenham Dream” featuring skateboarder Caleb Barnett. Jack Greer directed the clip, which follows Barnett over the course of a day as he jokes with roommates, rides around New York City, goes to the barber and gets a stick-and-poke …
Read More »'Mowgli' Review: Welcome to the Jungle (Book)
“The jungle is eternal,” purrs a panther — the second most charismatic black panther to hit screens in 2018, for those of you keeping count — to his “little brother,” a boy with limpid eyes and long back hair. This large, nurturing feline is referring to the home that provides …
Read More »Six Government Officials Found Guilty of #MAGA
Can you #MAGA too hard? According to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel you can, under very specific circumstances. The OSC on Friday found six Trump Administration officials guilty of violating the Hatch Act, a 1939 law prohibiting government employees from engaging in political activity while on the job. At …
Read More »Hear Ryan Bingham's Resilient Anti-Bullying Song 'Wolves'
Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Ryan Bingham has announced his first album release in four years, setting February 15th as the arrival date for his sixth studio LP, American Love Song. The gravel-voiced New Mexico native — who also earned an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for 2009’s “The Weary Kind,” the …
Read More »'Handmaid's Tale' Author Margaret Atwood Writing Sequel Novel
Over three decades after releasing her disturbing dystopian novelThe Handmaid’s Tale —which spawned a 1990 movie adaptation (starringNatasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway and Robert Duvall) and the critically acclaimed Hulu series (starring Elizabeth Moss) — author Margaret Atwood is prepping a sequel. Publisher Penguin Random House announced a September 10th, 2019 …
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