Duran Duran ruminate on migration – of both people and birds – in their vivid 30th anniversary video for “The Edge of America,” a song from their 1988 LP, Big Thing. Throughout the clip, Colombian-Venezuelan media artist/engineer David Medina creates collages of public domain images themed around immigration and U.S. …
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Republican Congressman Jason Lewis of Minnesota is coming under fire for disparaging remarks he made about women while he was a conservative radio talk show host. Before he was elected to Congress, Lewis was the host of a syndicated radio show that ran from 2009 to 2014. One of the …
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Richard Ojeda is a 24-year Army veteran who went on combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, but his closest brush with death may have come after he decided to get into West Virginia politics. “I was almost murdered two days before I won my Senate race,” he says of the …
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More than half a century ago, the Velvet Underground formed in downtown Manhattan and five decades later, the group has given their blessing to a new exhibition devoted to their legacy. The Velvet Underground Experience opened in Greenwich Village this week — a quick walk from where they first formed …
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Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry will embark on a headlining tour this fall in support of his new album, Sweetzerland Manifesto. The trek starts November 30th at the Anthem at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Sioux City, Iowa and includes stops in Detroit, New York City, Philadelphia and San Francisco. …
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The first trailer for the upcoming Elton John biopic Rocketman, portrays the singer’s early days at Royal Academy of Music to his rise to pop stardom. Taron Egerton, best known for the Kingsman movies, stars as John and does his own singing in the film. He sings “Rocket Man” in …
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Mike Campbell doesn’t cry when he talks about the early-morning phone call that told him Tom Petty, his bandleader and best friend of nearly 50 years, had just been rushed to the hospital. The Heartbreakers guitarist doesn’t cry when he remembers playing to a sold-out Hollywood Bowl with Petty one …
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Over the course of 90 minutes, the new documentary Bad Reputation chronicles Joan Jett‘s roller-coaster life: The high of the Runaways, followed by a messy breakup. D.I.Y. success matched with a major label looking to crush her. Waning popularity paired with a Warped Tour reinvention. Through it all, she’s kept …
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Stephen Colbert dissected the latest allegations of sexual harassment against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on The Late Show Monday. Colbert recounted the New Yorker‘s recent scoop, in which Deborah Ramirez accused Kavanaugh of drunkenly dangling his penis in front of her face during a college party. While Ramirez acknowledged …
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You’ll cry laughing at Michael Moore‘s new doc Fahrenheit 11/9, an unmissable provocation about the rise and rise of Donald J. Trump that should help get out the vote in November better than any limp recruitment outreach. One of Moore’s best and most incisively funny films — right up there …
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