Stephen Colbert tackled President Donald Trump’s latest troubling remark and his attempt to pull his critics’ security clearance on Tuesday’s Late Show. Colbert opened his monologue by repeating Trump’s quip: “Just remember, what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening …Oh good, I was worried because what …
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Shania Twain entered Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena Saturday night walking through the crowd like a prizefighter headed to the ring. The capacity crowd erupted at the sight of the pop-country royal as a drummer in the middle of the floor pounded out the rhythm to Queen’s jock jam “We Will Rock …
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As pundits and politicians race to label Donald Trump’s Monday morning press conference with Vladimir Putin as the most disgraceful moment of the Trump presidency, close to 3,000 migrant children still remain separated from the parents. The Department of Health and Human Services has made paltry efforts to reunify families …
Read More »My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields: The Guitar That Changed My Life
My Bloody Valentine had already been a band for five years by the time guitarist Kevin Shields found his secret weapon. After years of hopping between knockoffs of popular Fenders and Gibsons, a friend loaned him a 1964 Fender Jazzmaster – a melty, hotrod-shaped instrument with a bevy of switches …
Read More »Hear Twenty One Pilots' New Songs 'Jumpsuit,' 'Nico and the Niners'
Twenty One Pilots veer in two polar opposite directions – proggy alt-rock and psychedelic reggae-rap – on their two new singles, “Jumpsuit” and “Nico and the Niners.” The tracks appear on the band’s upcoming fifth LP, Trench, out October 5th via Fueled By Ramen. The duo anchor “Jumpsuit” with distorted …
Read More »'Whitney' Review: Portrait of Late Singer Puts Tragedy Front and Center
Watching this electrifying and empathetic look at the life of Whitney Houston, you keep wanting to reach into the screen and nudge Whitney toward a different path – one that ends a lot differently. That’s wishful thinking, of course, not to mention hopelessly naïve. You can’t trace the downward trajectory …
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