September brings the merciful end of blockbuster season and a beginning to the merciless onslaught of awards season. That means you get Robert Redford’s final performance, Matthew McConaughey aiming for Oscar-sanctified sleaziness and the makers of TV’s This Is Us letting a host of famous names mount a full-frontal assault …
Read More »Lil Yachty Enlists Trippie Redd, Chief Keef for New Birthday Mixtape
Lil Yachty has released a new mixtape, Birthday Mix 3 From Boat, in celebration of his 21st birthday. This is the third consecutive year he has marked his birthday with a mixtape. Released exclusively on SoundCloud, the 16-minute compilation of unreleased music features Trippie Redd, Chief Keef, Gunna, YoungBoy Never …
Read More »The Dominoes Keep Falling as Trump's Top Financial Exec Gets Immunity
WASHINGTON —Life comes at you fast. A day after President Trump said on Fox News that it “almost ought to be illegal” for “flippers” to receive more lenient plea deals in exchange for testifying, the Wall Street Journal broke the news that Allen Weisselberg, a longtime top executive and chief …
Read More »How Aretha Franklin Influenced the Country Music of Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette
In 1975, Kitty Wells traveled to Capricorn Studios in Macon, Georgia, to record Forever Young, an album of country, rock and soul songs. Wells was 56 at the time and was looking to modernize her sound and image, just a bit. She hadn’t had a Top Ten country hit in …
Read More »VMAs 2018: Cardi B Fakes Out Audience With Moon Man Baby
Cardi B faked out viewers at the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards by teasing a possible reveal of Kulture, her daughter with Migos’ Offset – only to unwrap a Moon Man statue she was cradling onstage in a blanket. “I am the empress,” she said before the non-reveal, leading into …
Read More »La Roux Slams Fox Business for Using 'Bulletproof' in School Safety Segment
British pop group La Roux criticized Fox Business Network for using its 2009 song “Bulletproof” in a segment Monday about bulletproof clothing designed for schoolchildren, Pitchfork reports. The song was used to introduce a segment titled “Back to School Safety” on Maria Bartiromo’s morning show, Mornings with Maria. The piece …
Read More »Lil Peep and XXXTentatcion Collaboration Is Coming
New music from Lil Peep and XXXTentacion is coming, according to ILoveMakonnen. The rapper broke the news about the posthumous collaboration on Instagram in what appears to be a studio session from XXXTentacion where he’s reflecting on Lil Peep’s death in 2017. “When I heard X’s recording, talking about my …
Read More »Colorado Man Charged With Murdering Pregnant Wife, Two Young Daughters
Before Shanann Watts and her two daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, disappeared earlier this week from their home in Frederick, Colorado, the life the 34-year-old had built with her husband of eight years, Christopher, seemed better than ever. They had met on Facebook, fell in love, and she moved …
Read More »Flashback: Aretha Franklin Sings Bill Anderson's 'I May Never Get to Heaven'
In the summer of 1979, Conway Twitty earned his 22nd Number One hit with “I May Never Get to Heaven,” written by longtime friends Bill Anderson and Buddy Killen. Anderson had been enshrined in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame four years earlier, but has continued to have hits into …
Read More »Christine Hallquist Becomes First Trans Candidate to Win Major Party Nomination for Governor
Christine Hallquist became the first openly transgender person to secure a major party’s nomination for governor after winning the Vermont Democratic primary Tuesday, The New York Times reports. Hallquist bested three other candidates and will face Republican incumbent Phil Scott in the general election, November 6th. Per CNN, Hallquist ran …
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