Harry Styles sophomore album, Fine Line, makes a massive debut at Number One this week on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums Chart, moving 510,100 total album units for the week of December 13th through December 19th. This marks the second highest debut in the chart’s history, narrowly topping the …
Read More »9 LOL Moments from the Democratic Debate in Los Angeles
The Democratic debate in Los Angeles Thursday night featured the smallest cohort on stage — just seven candidates — and delivered one of the feistiest showings of the 2020 primary season. It was also the funniest debate yet, with candidates delivering zingers and comebacks that left the crowd at Layola …
Read More »The Official 'Rolling Stone' Democratic Debate Drinking Game, Los Angeles Edition
Pour out a 40 for Beto O’Rourke and Kamala Harris, two “top tier” candidates who recently exited the race for the Democratic Party nomination. The debate tonight in Los Angeles, the sixth in this interminable, gaffe-filled, weirdly depressing primary battle, has been pared down to seven qualifying combatants. This is …
Read More »Why Did it Take 12 Hours for Police to Issue an Amber Alert for Karol Sanchez?
Earlier this week, a grainy black-and-white video allegedly depicting the abduction of Karol Sanchez, a 16-year-old Bronx, New York teenager, began circulating on Twitter. The video appeared to show two men grabbing Sanchez off the street and shoving her into a car before speeding away, leaving her terrified mother alone …
Read More »Neil Gorsuch Goes on 'Fox & Friends' to Decry 'Making Things Up.' RIP Self-Awareness
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch is concerned. The conservative judge Trump tapped in 2017 to sit on America’s highest court believes there’s a dearth of governmental literacy in the nation that elected a reality-TV-host president. On Tuesday morning, he took his case to Fox & Friends, a show that five …
Read More »The 'Best Popular Movie' Oscar: WTF Is the Academy Thinking?
For 90 years, Hollywood has been celebrating itself by handing out Academy Awards — and for almost as long, people have been debating what, if anything, constitutes a “Best” Picture. The Oscars are a hopelessly biased and flawed system — the voters skew older, most aren’t nearly adventurous enough in …
Read More »Gershon Kingsley, Electronic Music Pioneer, Dead at 97
Gershon Kingsley, the electronic music pioneer who wrote some of the genre’s most enduring songs, has died at the age of 97. Kingsley’s family tweeted that the composer died December 10th. No cause of death was revealed. “We are saddened to share that pioneering synthesist and legendary composer Gershon Kingsley …
Read More »House Judiciary Committee Approves Articles of Impeachment, Setting Stage for Vote to Impeach
The House Judiciary Committee approved articles of impeachment against President Trump on Friday, voting along party lines to uphold the “abuse of power” and “obstruction of Congress” counts the Democrat-controlled committee submitted earlier this week. The articles’ passage sets the stage for a House-wide vote on whether to officially impeach …
Read More »Trump Claims He's Having a 'Very Busy Day' After Using Twitter 100 Times Today
Donald Trump bragged that he was having a “very busy day” on Thursday. And he was… on Twitter, tweeting or retweeting more than 100 times, and counting, since the morning. But there’s one problem, Trump does not work in social media. He’s the president of the United States. So, when …
Read More »Jenny Lewis, Jackson Browne, Jonathan Wilson Team for Lively 'Lapé Lanmou'
Jenny Lewis and producer/songwriter Jonathan Wilson have teamed with Sanba Zao, Paul Beaubrun and Jackson Browne for a new song, “Lapé Lanmou (Peace and Love).” The track will appear on the upcoming benefit album, Let the Rhythm Lead: Haiti Song Summit, Vol. 1, out January 31st, 2020 from Artists for …
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