Halsey gets sucked into a world of her own making in her new video for “Graveyard,” off of upcoming album Manic, out January 17th. She previously released a time-lapse visualizer for the song in September. The fantasy-infused clip, directed by Anton Tammi, starts off with Halsey sketching an illustration in …
Read More »50 Cent to Explore Rise, Fall of Tekashi 6ix9ine in New Docuseries
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 …
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