I worry less about Kim Jong-Un than I do Betsy DeVos. The North Korean dictator, for one, doesn’t have dominion over the educational futures of nearly 51 million elementary and secondary students and countless more in college. Barring a nuclear attack, of course, the wealthy charter-school champion is poised to …
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Fall Out Boy and G-Eazy will headline an upcoming concert to support the March for Our Lives rallies, organized in response to the last month’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida. The “Stay Amped” show – booked for Friday, March 23rd at Washington D.C. venue the Anthem – will benefit gun …
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Fans of Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit will have the opportunity to pick up a limited-edition copy of the band’s 2008 EP Live at Twist & Shout 11.16.07via New West on vinyl this Record Store Day, but Isbell himself doesn’t recommend it. The Grammy-winning Americana singer-songwriter cautioned fans on …
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Is Atlanta the best comedy on TV? Or the best drama? The best family saga about the impossibility of either fatherhood or son-hood? The funniest crime story? The most depressive stoner romp? The most anti-romantic love letter to a city? The most absurdist state-of-the-nation report, in the form of a …
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In advance of the March 11th reboot of American Idol, new judge Luke Bryan made an appearance on Tuesday’s episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers to plug the upcoming show and perform his song “Hooked on It.” A Southern-rock-flavored tune that deals in the formative experiences for small-town people, …
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Putin loves you; therefore, you love Putin. The enemy re-tweets you, therefore, you’re in league with the enemy. We’re at war with them, therefore we’re at war with you. One of the first rules of a shunning campaign is that it doesn’t have to make sense. It just has to …
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U2 will reissue three of their releases on vinyl in April when the Irish rockers deliver new editions of 1997’s Pop, 2000’s All That You Can’t Leave Behind and the 1985 EP Wide Awake in America. All three reissues, which have been remastered and pressed on 180-gram vinyl, will come …
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Tracey Thorn remains one of the most vital voices in English pop – not necessarily a fate anyone would have bet on in the Eighties, even her early fans. In her excellent new solo album, with the droll title Record, the Everything But the Girl chanteuse tells tales of mid-life …
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Breaking box-office records and introducing millions around the world to the gleaming Afrofuturistic jewel that is the country of Wakanda, Marvel‘s Black Panther is already the third-highest grossing Marvel film less than two weeks after release. Originally created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby back in 1966 (King T’Challa debuted …
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Michael B. Jordan goes from Black Panther‘s fictional world of Wakanda to a dystopian United States in the first trailer for Fahrenheit 451, HBO’s adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s 1953 sci-fi novel. In the film, Jordan portrays Guy Montag, a “fireman” whose job is incinerating books as opposed to extinguishing fires. …
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