Tim Heidecker has released a new song, “Fear of Death,” the title track from his upcoming album, which the comedian made with a band featuring Weyes Blood’s Natalie Mering, the Lemon Twigs’ Brian and Michael D’Addario and more. Fear of Death arrives September 25th on Spacebomb Records. “Fear of Death” …
Read More »Why Gen Z Turned on Lin-Manuel Miranda
In every cultural figure or moment’s lifespan, there comes a point where they are subject to what can be summarized as the “You’re Wrong About” treatment, or the concept that even our most deeply held beliefs and cherished orthodoxies are ripe for reappraisal. (There’s even an eponymous podcast devoted to …
Read More »Wilford Brimley, 'Cocoon' and 'The Natural' Actor, Dead at 85
Wilford Brimley, the unlikely character actor who brought both curmudgeonry and geniality to films like Cocoon, The China Syndrome, The Natural and Tender Mercies, has died at the age of 85. Brimley’s agent Lynda Bensky confirmed to the New York Times that the actor had been sick for two months …
Read More »'The Go-Go's' Gives '80s New Wave Band a Proper Music Doc (Finally)
This review originally ran in January as part of our Sundance Film Festival 2020 coverage. Even if you’ve seen the footage before, in L.A. punk docs and VH-1 specials, it’s still thrilling to watch: Five women on stage, their outfits resembling a day-glo mix of thrift-store chic and a temper …
Read More »This Extensive Mashup Confirms Trump's Love for Putin
CNN’s Brianna Keilar did a deep dive into President Trump’s affinity for Russian President Vladimir Putin, beginning with how Trump has labeled as a “hoax” the U.S. intelligence reports that Putin placed bounties on American soldiers. “The president is refusing to condemn or even acknowledge reports that Russia put bounties …
Read More »'She Dies Tomorrow' Review: Paranoia, One Person-to-Person Contact Away
Amy (Kate Lyn Sheil) awakes with a start. She walks through her new house, filled with unpacked boxes and half-wallpapered walls. She puts on classical music, shops online for cremation urns and crawls across her living room floor. Something is clearly not right. When her friend Jane (Jane Adams), a …
Read More »The First Time With Actor Daniel Brühl
Actor Daniel Brühl discussed the intense secrecy that surrounds even a simple mask in the Marvel universe, immediately falling in love with the script for The Alienist and more in the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s The First Time. The actor is currently portraying Dr. Laszlo Kreizler on Season Two …
Read More »William Barr Insists Federal Invasion of Portland Simply Part of Anti-Crime Initiative
It stood to reason that Congress might, at some point, ask someone from the Trump administration to answer for the recent push to invade American cities with armed federal troops. On Tuesday, that person was Attorney General William Barr, who appeared before the House Judiciary Committee to answers questions about …
Read More »Taylor Swift Made an Album. Now She's Going to Sell Thousands of Cardigans
This sweater song doesn’t come undone. Of all the tracks of Taylor Swift‘s surprise album Folklore, the one sitting at Number One on the Spotify US Top 50 is “Cardigan” — a song where Swift likens herself to, you guessed it, a cardigan. In a music video accompanying the critically …
Read More »Taylor Swift Has Been Working Toward 'Folklore' All Along
“I’m on some new shit,” Taylor Swift sings in the opening lines of Folklore, announcing with a smile and a wink that the many Taylor Swifts of her previous seven albums — even the not-quite-year-old Taylor of Lover — can’t come to the phone right now. Swift has always conceived …
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