Metallica has offered up another glimpse at their 72 Seasons with “Screaming Suicide,” the second single off the heavy metal legends’ upcoming LP. As the band shared in a statement, the track “addresses the taboo word of suicide.”“The intention is to communicate about the darkness we feel inside,” James Hetfield …
Read More »Tucker Carlson Commits His Worst Act of Vaccine Hypocrisy Yet
Tucker Carlson on Tuesday night hosted former New York Times reporter and current coronavirus conspiracy theorist Alex Berenson on Tucker Carlson Tonight, which averages 3.2 million viewers a night and is the most-watched show on cable news. Berenson was given free rein to spout his views on vaccines. “I think …
Read More »Amanda Gorman Ushers in 2022 With Poem 'New Day's Lyric'
Poet Amanda Gorman reflected on 2021 and looked ahead to next year in a new poem — and accompanying performance — shared on Instagram. “New Day’s Lyric” begins with a call for unity as Gorman acknowledges both the difficulty and hardship that marked 2021. But of those challenges, she notes …
Read More »Mitski Had to Quit Music to Love It
M itski has been having nightmares. The 31-year-old musician has always suffered from performance-anxiety dreams, but lately they’ve gotten more terrifying, more elaborate. During one in particular, her cat was stuck in a tree, and she was late to soundcheck. When she finally arrived at the venue, she found out …
Read More »Best Music of 2021: Staff Picks
Here at Rolling Stone, we listen to a lot of new music every year — and we all have our own distinct perspectives and interests when we listen. The choices on these personal Top 10s range from commercial blockbusters and critical favorites like Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour, Doja Cat’s Planet Her, …
Read More »'We Have to Do Better': Biden Plans to Combat Omicron by Sending Free At-Home Tests to Americans
The federal government will purchase half a billion at-home tests for Americans and provide them for free, President Joe Biden said in a national address about the fast rise over the past few weeks of the Omicron variant, now the most dominant strain in the U.S. “We have to do …
Read More »Brothers Osborne Revamp 'Skeletons' Album With 'Younger Me,' Bonus Tracks
Brothers Osborne will reissue their Grammy-nominated 2020 album Skeletons as a deluxe edition in early 2022. The new version, featuring three additional tracks, will be released Jan. 21. Among the newly added tracks is the duo’s single “Younger Me,” which was penned by the brothers and Kendell Marvel about singer …
Read More »Trump Administration Deliberately Tanked Covid Response for Political Purposes: Report
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis on Friday released a 46-page report confirming what was readily apparent to most reasonable, informed Americans: The Trump administration made “deliberate efforts” to undermine America’s response to Covid-19 for political purposes. Most of the documents cited in the committee’s report have already …
Read More »Facebook Cracks Down on Israeli 'Surveillance for Hire' Operations
Leaders of the Israeli cyber intelligence firm Cognyte this February celebrated their first day of trading on Nasdaq by ringing the stock exchange’s opening bell. In remarks beamed across a giant screen in New York’s Times Square, CEO Elad Sharon celebrated his company’s success, including nearly half a billion dollars …
Read More »'Aline': See Trailer for Unauthorized and Unorthodox Celine Dion Biopic
The life and career of Celine Dion is the inspiration of an upcoming, unorthodox, and unauthorized biopic titled Aline, written, directed, and starring Valérie Lemercier. The movie made a buzz on the film festival circuit for its bizarre approach to Dion’s story — Aline markets itself as “fiction freely inspired …
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