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It felt like President Trump’s rally in Greenville, North Carolina, on Wednesday night was probably going to be an ugly one. It was grotesque. The East Carolina University arena was pulsing with white nationalist synergy through the president’s time on stage, provided a horrifying glimpse of what the next 16 …

Billy Strings shows off his fiery picking on “Taking Water,” Hiss Golden Messenger shows support for public education in “I Need a Teacher,” plus new tracks from Ottoman Turks and Amy Speace in this week’s list of must-hear tracks. Hiss Golden Messenger, “I Need a Teacher” Released in support of …

The long-running humor publication Mad Magazine will effectively shut down this fall after a 67-year run. The comedy mag will be pulled from newsstands after the release of issue nine in August and from then on will be sold exclusively via subscriptions and comic book store (Mad reset its numbering …

Sunday morning’s announcement that Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings acquired Scott Borchetta’s Big Machine Label Group caused the a-pop-calypse to swiftly descend upon us. Braun, an entrepreneur and talent manager best known for representing Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande, among others, seemed like an unlikely partner for Borchetta’s Nashville-based independent label. …

An Instagram video from the French government, showing President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka inserting herself into a conversation with world leaders at the G-20 summit, went viral Saturday night. Ivanka attended the G-20 along with her father and gave an address about women’s economic empowerment. The viral video begins with …

Ahead of the Veronica Mars revival, the series’ longtime theme song is getting a re-vamp. For the eight-episode reboot on Hulu, the show’s theme song, “We Used To Be Friends” by the Dandy Warhols, will be performed by the Pretenders‘ Chrissie Hynde. In a teaser for Hynde’s take of the …

Thanks to President Trump and his transparent and perverse desire to enrich his golfing buddies in the fossil fuel industry and to accelerate the climate crisis, the U.S. is the most notorious climate criminal in the world right now. But the Aussies are giving us a run for our money. …

In the days before he allegedly struck a 23-year-old undocumented Guatemalan man with a government-issued Ford F-150, Border Patrol agent Matthew Bowen sent a text to a fellow agent. In the exchange, which federal prosecutors now claim offers “insight into his view of the aliens he apprehends,” Bowen railed against …

On June 19th, 1991, Bushwick Bill was pronounced dead. He shot himself in the eye that day, after suicidal ideations and a prolonged argument with his girlfriend. The rapper, born Richard Stephen Shaw, was only 24 at the time, but he had already lived multiple lives. Less than three hours …

Though Joe Biden believes Republicans and Democrats will join hands and work together once President Trump is out of office, most recognize real bipartisanship in Congress as nothing more than a pipe dream. There simply doesn’t appear to be any way to reconcile the ideological gap between progressive Democrats and …