Category: News & Events

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Albums What Are We Supposed To Do With PWR BTTM’s Pageant?

What Are We Supposed To Do With PWR BTTM’s Pageant?

One of the Best Albums of the Year Has Been Plagued by Allegations of Sexual Misconduct, So is it Ok to Like It?   I feel strange even bringing this up, but here we go: about two weeks ago, the relatively unknown, vivaciously queer indie rock band PWR BTTM released their second studio album, Pageant. In …

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Trump What Happens After
Donald Trump is Gone?

What Happens After
Donald Trump is Gone?

The Divide That Trump and His Ilk Have Caused Will Not Disappear Just Because He Does   A little over two months ago, I wrote my last piece that directly discussed Trump’s presidency. In that article, I said I was done writing about the bilious ham-sack known as Donald Jodorowsky Trump, barring “a significant public scandal …

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Music Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus and the Hip Hop Train

Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus and the Hip Hop Train

Two of America’s Lingering Pop Stars Have Adjusted to the Times With Approaches Befitting Their Current Personas   Two weeks ago, DJ Khaled released the single “I’m the One“, a swirly and skeletal track featuring Quavo, Chance the Rapper, Lil Wayne and an anthemic hook by Justin Bieber. Then, sometime earlier today Miley Cyrus dropped …

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Music Kendrick’s DAMN. Just Dropped

Kendrick’s DAMN. Just Dropped

His Follow Up to 2015’s To Pimp a Butterfly and Last Year’s untitled. unmastered. is Now Available to Stream   Kendrick Lamar – probably the greatest living rapper and, by extension, one of the best ever – has just released his new album, DAMN. You can stream it now on Spotify and Apple Music.

Music The 12 Best Artists Announced for Splendour in the Grass 2017

The 12 Best Artists Announced for Splendour in the Grass 2017

The Aussie Festival Has a Pretty Fantastic Lineup   This year’s lineup for Splendour in the Grass was just released. Previous years have seen headlining artists as diverse and spectacular as OutKast, The Strokes and Lorde. Then again, we’ve also had Mumford & Sons, so there’s always some cause for concern in the leadup to …

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Movies/TV The Matrix is Getting a Reboot Because Nothing is Sacred

The Matrix is Getting a Reboot Because Nothing is Sacred

You Can Only Milk a Cow So Long Before it Either Dies Or Bites You on the Fucking Face   The Wachowski siblings’ classic sci-fi action film The Matrix is being set up for a remake by Warner Bros. I wish there was some far-reaching, metaphysical ultimatum that I could put to you after that statement, that you …

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Trump I’m Done Writing About Trump

I’m Done Writing About Trump

Reporting on the Goings-On of Trump Went From Exciting, To Repetitive, To Exhausting and, Eventually, Very Boring    The number one rule of getting a lot of traffic on your blog is to use a clickbaity title and then make a shameless attempt to clarify the parameters of it in your opening paragraph. It’s the …

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Trump U.S. Politics is Now a TV Show

U.S. Politics is Now a TV Show

America Has Traded Political Stability for the Chaos of Reality Television. That’s… Just Soooo Stupid   Oprah Winfrey might seriously be considering running for President of the United States. If Kanye sticks to his guns about doing the same, then that means the 2020 election could be a race – initially, at least – between …

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