Outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan is pushing new legislation that would increase the number of immigrants who come to the United States, as long as they are Irish. Ryan, whose relatives fled the country in 1851, got the bill passed in the House on November 28, and it is expected …
Read More »The Great Heavy Metal Hoax
A few days before Thanksgiving, Jered “Threatin” Eames, a waifish, black-clad 29-year-old with a whip of Ariana-length hair, sinks into his hotel-suite chair in West Hollywood. He looks pale and sickly, recovering from a 13-hour Frankfurt red-eye and the craziest week of his life — when he tried living out …
Read More »Rush's Geddy Lee Talks Massive Bass Book, Meeting John Paul Jones
“I have to get back to my day job sooner rather than later,” Geddy Lee says with an exhausted laugh. While Rush played what could be their farewell show in August 2015, the frontman has never been busier. He’s spent the past seven years collecting hundreds of vintage bass guitars …
Read More »The Zombies on Overdue Rock Hall Induction: 'This Is a Life-Defining Moment'
Few bands that have entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have had to wait quite as long as the Zombies.The British Invasion group — best known for their hits “She’s Not There” and “Time of the Season” — have been eligible for induction since 1989, but they didn’t …
Read More »Flashback: Band Aid Raises Millions With 'Do They Know It's Christmas?'
The age of the celebrity supergroup charity single truly began in October 1984, when Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof watched in horror as footage of the worsening Ethiopian famine played across his television screen as part of a BBC News documentary. He was still haunted by the images a week …
Read More »Trump's List of Chief of Staff Candidates Is … Woof
President Trump announced on Saturday that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly will be leaving the administration by the year’s end. The new is not surprising. The president has already jettisoned dozens of top officials, and it had long been rumored that Trump and Kelly’s relationship had soured. Nick …
Read More »See Robert De Niro's Robert Mueller Visit Trump Brothers in 'SNL' Cold Open
On the heels of a bad week at the Trump White House, Saturday Night Live teased the president with a pair of sketches, including a cold open that seized on the Special Counsel’s damning documents against Donald Trump. In the sketch, Alex Moffat’s dim-witted Eric Trump is scared to go …
Read More »Rascal Flatts Release 'Jukebox' EP, Cover Hall and Oates' 'You Make My Dreams'
Rascal Flatts deliver a pre-Christmas surprise for fans in the form of a new EP available today. Titled Jukebox, the four-song release re-imagines some of the trio’s favorite songs, originally performed by classic pop-rock acts Foreigner, Hall & Oates, Kenny Loggins, and Huey Lewis and the News. Inspired by a …
Read More »Bask in the Absurdity of This 2018 #MAGA Gift Guide
There’s no official date that the conservative “War on Christmas” picks back up each year, but in 2018 it was probably November 19th, when President Trump gently laid his palm on a horse’s ass in front of the White House. To the president’s credit, it was no ordinary horse; it …
Read More »Hear Sibling Duo the Cactus Blossoms' New Song 'Please Don't Call Me Crazy'
“Did someone call you crazy once, Jack?” asks the Cactus Blossoms‘ Page Burkum, calling from his hometown of Minneapolis with his brother and band mate Jack Torrey also on the line. Burkum is referring to the duo’s newest track, “Please Don’t Call Me Crazy,” the first sampling from their sophomore …
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