April has become the busiest month of the TV calendar (it’s the sweet spot to release a season of TV that will be both eligible for this year’s Emmys and fresh in voters’ minds when the ballots go out), and among the various 18-show pile-ups of April 2022 are a …

John Moreland finds himself full of big questions and remorse in “Ugly Faces,” the Oklahoma singer-songwriter’s first release from his new album. Birds in the Ceiling, the follow-up to 2020’s LP5, will be released July 22 via Old Omens/Thirty Tigers. “Ugly Faces” nods to some of the stylistic evolution Moreland …

New Mexico‘s Occupational Health and Safety Bureau issued the maximum possible fine to the production company behind Rust, determining it willfully failed to provide adequate safety precautions on the set where actor Alec Baldwin shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins last October. The Bureau found that Rust Movie Productions took …

Mariah Angeliq isn’t letting just anyone be her future novio. On Tuesday, Sebastián Yatra released the silly storyline video for his song “Si Me La Haces” and it follows him and Lenny Tavarez as they submit boyfriend applications — and jump through quite a few hoops — to sway Angeliq …

One of the three drug dealers charged in the deadly fentanyl overdose that claimed the life of rising rapper Mac Miller was sentenced to nearly 11 years in prison on Monday. Ryan Michael Reavis, 39, appeared in federal court in Los Angeles and said he was the middle man who …

As a journalist covering QAnon and fascism in Los Angeles, I’ve seen a lot in the past couple years. I’ve seen danger and violence, heard crazy conspiracies and angry confrontations, and tracked a movement as it spirals deeper and deeper into insanity. It has worn on me, and there are …

Kay Flock has enlisted Cardi B, Bory300 and fellow Bronx MC Dougie B for new drill song “Shake It.” The track arrived on Thursday at midnight alongside a high-octane video. The Jochi Saca, Alex and Tristan Demic-directed clip features the rappers inside and outside a convenience store as they deliver …

Superfly actor and rapper Kaalan Walker once “manipulated” a 16-year-old girl into filming an impromptu sex tape at his apartment building while her mother, who thought her daughter was posing for headshots, waited outside, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday in closing arguments at Walker’s serial rape trial in Los Angeles. …

When it came to having a signature voice in his acting and comedy, Gilbert Gottfried was king. Before his 2017 documentary, rarely did the public get to hear what the comedian — behind beloved avian characters Cyberchase‘s Didge, Aladdin‘s Iago, and theAflac duck — sounded like when he was out …

Chris Bailey, the founding frontman of the trailblazing Australian punk outfit the Saints, died Saturday, April 9. He was 65. The Saints confirmed Bailey’s death on Facebook, though a cause of death wasn’t given. “It is with great pain in our hearts that we have to inform you about the …