Three people were hospitalized after a stampede occurred in the moments before Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival in Houston opened its gates. The rapper posted video on Instagram of fans pushing down barricades and running toward the NRG Park parking lot prior to noon Saturday, when gates were scheduled to open …
Read More »A$AP Rocky Plots First Show in Sweden Since Assault Trial
A$AP Rocky will perform in Sweden for the first time since he found himself at the center of a contentious assault trial there this past summer. The show will take place December 11th at the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm. Tickets will go on sale November 12th at 10 a.m. local …
Read More »Is Holding Fake Lunch Contests Trump's Pettiest Scam?
President Trump is a con man. He conned people into giving to his now-defunct foundation only to use the donations for personal expenses.He conned people into spending more money than they could afford on the now-dissolved Trump University.He conned lenders into subsidizing his floundering real estate projects. The list goes …
Read More »Book Review: Flea's 'Acid for the Children' Is a Portrait of a Chili as a Young Punk
Born Michael Peter Balzary, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist and spiritual adviser is the sort of rock star who begins his memoir, Acid for the Children, weeping at musical beauty in an Ethiopian church, blurting earnest declarations about his “endless search to merge with infinite spirit” and his surrendering …
Read More »Stella Donnelly Gets Into a Food Fight in 'Season's Greetings' Video
Stella Donnelly gets tangled in a picnic food fight in the hilarious new video for “Season’s Greetings.” The song is the third track off her LP Beware of the Dogs,released earlier this year. The clip features Donnelly at a cricket field in Perth, Australia, joined by a charming cast of …
Read More »Who Is Rodney Reed? Why Celebrities Are Rallying for the Release of a Death Row Inmate
A campaign to release Rodney Reed, a Texas death row inmate scheduled for execution later this month, has gained traction following testimony that raises significant questions about his guilt. Reed is on death row in the state of Texas for rape and murder. He has long maintained his innocence. In …
Read More »Josh Homme on the Power of Desert Sessions and Waiting for Them Crooked Vultures
Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme led his first “Desert Session” in 1997, a year after he left stoner-metal firebrands Kyuss, when he invited members of Monster Magnet and Soundgarden, among others, together for an improvisational jam in Joshua Tree, California. After that, he regularly organized different groups …
Read More »Garth Brooks Performs 'Callin' Baton Rouge,' Tells Jimmy Carter Story on 'Ellen'
Garth Brooks stopped by The Ellen Degeneres Show for a rowdy rendition of his 1993 hit “Callin’ Baton Rouge.” Playing alongside fiddle players with matching cowboy hats, the long-time country music star tore up the Burbank soundstage with a bonafide hoedown. Brooks chatted with Ellen about his work with the …
Read More »Flashback: See the Trailer for Cowboy Jack Clement's 1972 Horror Movie
In September and October 1970, Nashville songwriter, producer, music publisher and record-label executive “Cowboy” Jack Clement added independent film producer to his long list of credits, as he and a New York-Hollywood film crew descended upon the grounds of a sprawling estate in the tony Nashville suburb of Brentwood and …
Read More »Offshore Wind Energy Could Generate Enough Electricity to Power the World. Will the U.S. Get on Board?
Last week, the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicted a boom in renewable energy, forecasting the power capacity for renewable sources will increase 50 percent over the next five years. One of the most fertile settings for an explosion in renewable power, the IEA revealed in a study released days later, …
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