The Trump administration’s mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic — with 228,000 U.S. deaths and counting — is the focus of “American Nightmare,” the latest video from the Coda Campaign. The video, featuring Squirrel Nut Zippers’ terrifyingly prescient 1995 song “La Grippe” — substitute “flu” for “virus” and it’s eerily accurate …
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Rob Zombie has released a new song, “The Triumph of King Freak (A Crypt of Preservation and Superstition),” from his upcoming seventh studio album, The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy, out March 12th, 2021 via Nuclear Blast. The track is a ferocious blast of big guitar metal, although halfway …
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Despite never showing his face publicly or signing a proper record deal, Marshmello is one of the biggest stars in the world, with a YouTube subscriber count exceeding that of Taylor Swift, Drake, or Beyoncé. The DJ would likely not be where he is today without the guidance of Moe …
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Ty Dolla $ign is the musical equivalent of hot sauce — he goes on everything. He has spent the better part of the last decade forging collabs with seemingly every rapper and singer who’s spent time in his native Los Angeles, from Berner to Beyoncé to Bhad Bhabie. With hundreds …
Read More »'I Have to Pinch Myself': Sarah Cooper's Rapid Rise From Trump TikToker to Netflix Star
As a product designer at Google, Sarah Cooper was used to being pulled into business meetings because, she says, they “needed another woman” in the room. There, she saw male coworkers lavished with praise for contributions as inane as drawing a Venn diagram on a whiteboard. She started taking notes. …
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The word-of-mouth party line on Tyler Taormina’s Ham on Rye is that it begins as a loose, lo-fi teen comedy — a hazy, drifting, and personality-driven series of detours through the problems of youth, like John Hughes by way of Dazed and Confused. And then, the story goes, the movie …
Read More »Trump Official Planned to Give Santa Claus Performers Early Access to Covid-19 Vaccine
You better watch out. You better not cry. You better not pout. I’m telling you why. Santa Claus has early access to the Covid-19 vaccine. At least, that’s how it would be if Michael Caputo, one of Trump’s HHS assistant secretaries, had his way. In perhaps one of the strangest …
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Haim performed a spooky Halloween-themed rendition of “3 a.m.” on Thursday night’s Late Night With Seth Meyerswith a little help from everyone’s favorite emotional vampire, Robert Pattinson. The formerTwilightheartthrob appeared via FaceTime to read out the song’s booty-call intro, before the segment cut away to a prerecorded performance of the …
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Dierks Bentley ghosts his boss, friends, and family as he tries to forget the lover who left him in the new song “Gone.” It’s the first new music from the county singer since his 2018 album The Mountain. Written by Nicolle Galyon, Ben Johnson, and the solo artist Niko Moon, …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. If you’re missing the days when you could experience live music, you’re not alone. The pandemic has forced the closure of a number of music venues across the …
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