Kid Cudi is heading to the moon on his upcoming tour, kind of. The rapper’s newly announced To the Moon world tour unfortunately shares a name with an idiotic and unrelated crypto-bro phrase, so let’s just imagine that he’s getting a moon landing of his own. Scheduled for 27 cities …
Read More »Why Hollywood Is Less Gay-Friendly Than You Think
When the Elton John biopic Rocketman opened at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2019, expectations were sky-high. Just months earlier, Bohemian Rhapsody, another rock-music biopic, this one centered on Queen’s Freddie Mercury, had pulled off a surprise box-office coup, raking in $911 million worldwide. Paramount Pictures had taken a …
Read More »Megan Thee Stallion Was Shot. Where Was The Sympathy?
“In some kind of way I became the villain,” Megan Thee Stallion tells Mankaprr Conteh in Rolling Stone‘s revealing new cover story. Megan is talking about some of the truly bizarre reaction to the shooting she endured in July 2020, allegedly by former friend Tory Lanez (who has denied shooting …
Read More »'Blonde': See First Teaser for Netflix's Racy Marilyn Monroe Movie
Netflix has released the first teaser for Blonde, the already-controversial Marilyn Monroe film starring Ana de Armas in the role of the film icon. The movie — directed by Andrew Dominik and based on Joyce Carol Oates’ book of the same name — has already gained notoriety for its rare …
Read More »Hellfire: The Uvalde Shooter Owned a Device That Makes AR-15s Even More Deadly
The advertisement is slugged: “Unleashing ‘Hell-Fire.’” It pictures a gunman, wearing a skull mask with blacked out eyes, who unloads an AR-15 that is sending spent cartridges flying from its ejection port. The ad copy reads: “All you do is squeeze the trigger and shoot at rates up to 900 …
Read More »Julia Jacklin Fights to Hold Onto the Present on New Single 'I Was Neon'
On her latest single, “I Was Neon,” Julia Jacklin goes digging through the past in hopes of holding onto the present. The record arrives as the second single from her forthcoming third studio album Pre Pleasure, set for release on Aug. 26 via Polyvinyl. In the accompanying self-directed music video, …
Read More »Jennifer Hudson Locks in EGOT Status With 'A Strange Loop' Win at 2022 Tony Awards
Jennifer Hudson is officially an EGOT winner. The “Respect” star joined the elite EGOT club on Sunday night after she was awarded for her work as a producer on Michael R. Jackson’s Best Musical-winning A Strange Loop at the 2022 Tony Awards. An EGOT is an artist who has won …
Read More »Britney Spears Gets Restraining Order Against Ex Jason Alexander After He Tried to 'Crash' Wedding
UPDATE (6/10): Jason Alexander has been placed under an emergency protective order a day after he broke into Britney Spears’ house with a boxcutter knife in an attempt to crash her wedding to Sam Asghari, Rolling Stone can confirm. While Alexander had the weapon in his possession, the Ventura County …
Read More »What We Learned From the First Jan. 6 Committee Hearing
Ahead of the Jan. 6 committee’s first hearing, the panel’s Republican critics predicted the hearing would be a warmed-over rehash of partisan talking points about an attack on the Capitol that took place more than 17 months ago. They were wrong. The two-plus-hour hearing was filled with a torrent of …
Read More »Kurt Vile and The Violators Bring Breezy 'Mount Airy Hill (Way Gone)' to 'Colbert'
Kurt Vile and The Violators visited The Late Show With Stephen ColbertWednesday, offering audiences a taste of Vile’s latest album Watch My Moves with a performance of easygoing single “Mount Airy Hill (Way Gone).” The singer-songwriter also performed a cover of the John Prine song “How Lucky” — which appeared …
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