Former Replacements bassist Tommy Stinson is the first to admit that his band’s sixth album is not his favorite. When the Replacementsmade 1989’s Don’t Tell a Soul, their record label was pressuring frontman Paul Westerberg to write songs that could get played on the radio, and the group ended up …
Read More »Why Three Investigators Blame a Rash of Drowning Deaths on a Gang of Killers
When 24-year-old William Hurley called his girlfriend the night of October 8th, 2009, all he wanted was to go home. The Navy veteran, who’d been attending a Boston Bruins home game, asked Claire Mahoney to pick him up early, explaining that he was tired from a long day of work …
Read More »Green Day, Weezer, Fall Out Boy Announce 2020 'Hella Mega' Stadium Tour
Green Day, Weezer and Fall Out Boy are joining forces for the Hella Mega stadium tour, which will kick off June 13th, 2020 in Paris, France and hit North America the following month. The first U.S. date is July 17th at Seattle’s T-Mobile Park and wraps up August 29th at …
Read More »'The Simpsons': Watch Trump Flee the Squad in New 'West Side Story' Parody
President Donald Trump tries to evade “the Squad” — the informal nickname for new U.S. representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley — in a new West Side Story spoof from The Simpsons. The 90-second clip is fittingly titled “West Wing Story” and boasts a parody of …
Read More »The Campaign Press: Members of the 10 Percent, Reporting for the One Percent
Bernie Sanders Monday gave a speech in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. He took shots at the press, mentioning coverage of his campaign against Amazon: I talk about (Amazon’s taxes) all of the time… And then I wonder why The Washington Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, who owns Amazon, doesn’t …
Read More »Prescriptions for an America Sick With Racism
Pete Buttigieg got one thing wrong when he responded to the bigot on the Fourth of July. Later, the fact checkers would note that when he said that “a black person is four times as likely as a white person to be incarcerated for the exact same crime is evidence …
Read More »Exclusive Book Excerpt: Howard Stern on the Beatles and Ed Sheeran
Very early in his career, Howard Stern realized that he could only get so far in radio by being a standard disc jockey.”I didn’t want to be the guy spinning records,” he tells Rolling Stone. “I had too many friends who went down that route and they were great announcers …
Read More »'Avengers: Endgame' and the State of the Modern Superhero Movie
You were going to go. Of course you were going to go. Maybe you counted the hours and the days until advance tickets went on sale, and helped turn its opening weekend into a perpetually sold-out, round-the-clock-screening, $1.2 billion global juggernaut. Or maybe you went begrudgingly, complaining that this all …
Read More »Bob Dylan's Grandson Pablo Explains Why He Went From Hip-Hop to Folk-Rock
About seven years ago, stories about “Bob Dylan‘s Rapping Grandson” flooded the internet. Pablo Dylan — the child of Bob’s oldest son, Jesse — was just 15 at the time and he was trying to promote his new mixtape. “My grandfather, I consider him the Jay-Z of his time,” he …
Read More »Mueller Has Delivered His Final Report, Here's What We Know
On May 17th, 2017, former FBI Director Robert Mueller was named to lead a special Justice Department investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and any ties between the Russian government and Donald Trump‘s presidential campaign. After nearly two years and hundreds of protestations from the president, that investigation …
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