Offset released the steamy new video for “Clout” Wednesday, featuring Cardi B. The track, which features on the Migos rapper’s solo LP Father of 4, is the hip-hop couple’s first collaboration since their guest verses on Lil Yachty’s “Who Want the Smoke?” last July. Decked out almost entirely in yellow and …
Read More »Escort's Shot-for-Shot Remake of Journey's 'Separate Ways' is a Loving Homage to Eighties Cheese
New York disco outfit Escort unveiled an expertly detailed and hilariously precise shot-for-shot remake of Journey’s notorious “Separate Ways” video for their new song “Outta My Head.” The track will appear on the band’s upcoming LP, City Life, out April 12th. Released in 1983, the “Separate Ways” video found Journey …
Read More »Karen O and Danger Mouse on Time Travel, Female Energy, Pink Floyd and Beyoncé
Karen O and Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton started making noise around the same time, with a similar irreverent zest. In the early 2000s, when Karen was rampaging around the world with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, rocking fishnets-and-lipstick classics like “Maps” and “Y Control,” Danger Mouse rewrote the rulebook with his …
Read More »Watch Chemical Brothers' Intense New Video 'We've Got To Try'
The Chemical Brothers have shared the latest single from their forthcoming album No Geography, “We’ve Got To Try,” along with an accompanying music video that dropped Friday. The electronic duo’s pulsating new song is intensified by its video directed by Ninian Doff, who crafted the group’s 2015 clip for “Sometimes …
Read More »Hallelujer! 'A Madea Family Funeral' Is Tyler Perry's Last Round in Drag as the Matriarch
It’s lights out for Madea, the battle-ax sass queen with a criminal background created three decades ago and portrayed by Tyler Perry. That’s right. Perry, 49, says he will no longer put on a gray wig and wiggle his 6-foot-5 frame into the floral print dresses of the geriatric black …
Read More »Will Congress Terminate Trump's National Emergency?
One week ago, hours after President Trump declared a national emergency, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) announced plans to introduce a resolution to block it. “I ask all members of Congress — Democrat and Republican — to support this joint resolution to terminate President Trump’s unconstitutional national emergency declaration to build …
Read More »Academy Clarifies Controversial Plan to Cut Oscar Categories From Broadcast
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences clarified its controversial plan to not include four Oscar presentations during the live TV broadcast of this year’s Academy Awards,Variety reports. Earlier this week, Academy president John Bailey sparked outrage among members of the entertainment industry when he announced that the Oscars …
Read More »Tim Burton's 'Dumbo': Watch Michael Keaton Play Cunning Businessman in New Trailer
In the colorful new trailer for Tim Burton‘s reimagined Dumbo, Michael Keaton’s charismatic businessman V.A. Vandemere exploits the talents of the titular flying elephant. The clip opens with circus crew member Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell) awaking to find the newborn beast. “What is that? A face only a mother could …
Read More »Rosanne Cash Talks Channeling Feminist Rage on 'She Remembers Everything'
Rosanne Cash was stuck as she tried to write the follow-up to 2013’s The River & the Thread. That album — which found her writing from the perspective of figures in her legendary family tree — was a huge success, winning three Grammys. Cash intended to write in the same …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: The Specials, Featuring Saffiyah Khan, “10 Commandments”
Like many of the post-punk U.K. ska bands, The Specials were serious fans of the lateCecil Bustamente Campbell, aka Prince Buster, one of Jamaican music’s godfathers. They covered his “Too Hot” on their debut, “Enjoy Yourself” on their follow-up; their cohorts Madness made his “One Step Beyond” their signature. Now, …
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