50 Cent is producing a new celebrity profile docuseries, including an installment chronicling the rise and fall of controversial rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine. Moment in Time, produced via 50’s G-Unit Film & Television production company, will feature six to eight one-hour stories per episode. No release date or network information has …
Read More »Ginger Baker: 10 Tracks That Show His Drumming Genius
Ginger Baker was a paradox: a gamechanging rock drummer who insisted that he “never played rock,” a forefather of heavy metal who couldn’t stand the genre, and a Londoner who thoroughly assimilated African drumming styles. That’s why, if you only know him in one context — with barnstorming blues-rock trio …
Read More »'Lucy in the Sky' Review: The Portman Who Fell to Earth
It’s always a downer when talented artists pour everything they’ve got into a film that stubbornly refuses to come to life. That’s the case with Lucy in the Sky, an astronaut drama from a female perspective that argues space travel can seriously screw with your perceptions of life on earth. …
Read More »New York Drug Delivery Service Charged in Death of HQ Trivia CEO
Six members of a New York City drug delivery service have been arrested and charged with distributing heroin and cocaine in connection to the death of HQ Trivia co-founder Colin Kroll. The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced the charges Wednesday against the “on-demand drug …
Read More »Angel Olsen's 'All Mirrors' Is All About Ginormous Emotions and Epic Orchestrations
Orchestras are indie rock’s new Marshall stacks. That’s fitting on a lot of levels — as a satisfying class-action appropriation of elitist cultural tropes, as a deconstruction of those same tropes, and as an elevation of collectivism over American myths of individualism and exceptionalism that’ve lately been twisted into such …
Read More »'Pain and Glory' Review: Pedro Almodovar Delivers His '8 1/2'
How fitting that Antonio Banderas, 59, is delivering the performance of his career in a movie loosely based on the life of the director who gave him his breakthrough role in 1982’s Labyrinth of Passion. In Pain and Glory, the 21st movie for the 69-year-old Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, the …
Read More »Hailee Steinfeld Dabbles With the Undead in 'Afterlife' Video
Hailee Steinfeld has released the music video for “Afterlife,” her new song featured in the upcoming AppleTV+ seriesDickinson, in which she also stars and executive-produced. Directed by Hannah Lux Davis, who most recently helmed the clip for Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus and Lana Del Rey’s Charlie’s Angels theme“Don’t Call Me …
Read More »'Beyond Repugnant': GOP Rep. Bashes Trump for Raising Prospect of Civil War
After a long day of rage-tweeting about how unfairly he’s been treated over his efforts to pressure the Ukrainian government to investigate Joe Biden, President Trump on Sunday night raised the specter of a civil war should the Democrats’ new impeachment inquiry prove successful. The nod to a potential violent …
Read More »Are We In the Throes of a Global 'Sex Recession'? Eh
Sex is like sleep or protein: people freak out if they’re getting too much, and they freak out if they’re getting too little. So it comes as little surprise that when a news story emerges that hints at the latter possibility, it’s guaranteed to go viral. Such was the case …
Read More »Broken Bells' Glimpse 'Face of Evil' on Soulful New Song 'Good Luck'
Broken Bells, the duo of the Shins’ James Mercer and producer Danger Mouse, ponder the bleakness of modern times on their new song “Good Luck.” “The face of evil’s on the news tonight/We see the darkness over light,” Mercer sings over a dusty bass groove and loping drums. “But have …
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