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Julia Louis-Dreyfus Skewers Trump During Democratic National Convention: Watch
During a presidential campaign, the vice presidential nominee typically serves as the attack dog. Former Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus certainly played that role during the final night of the Democratic National Convention. While serving as the evening’s host, Louis-Dreyfus repeatedly ripped Donald Trump with stinging one-liners. “Joe Biden goes to church so regularly that he doesn’t even need tear gas and a bunch of federalized troops to get there,” Louis-Dreyfus remarked at one point. Later, she proclaimed, “If we all vote there is nothing Facebook, Fox News or Vladimir Putin can do to stop us.” While recounting the time Biden reached out after reading an article about her in the Amtrak magazine Arrive, Louis-Dreyfus quipped, “Joe Biden not only knows how to read, but also, he reads ever...
JAY-Z and Pharrell Team for New Single “Entrepreneur”: Stream
JAY-Z and Pharrell Williams are two of the most successful business men in all of music, so it’s fitting that their new collaboration be called “Entrepreneur”. Coming as part of a new cover package for TIME, the track finds the two artists advocating for an equality revolution across all levels of the American Dream. “The intention for a song was all about how tough it is to be an entrepreneur in our country to begin with,” Pharrell told TIME. “Especially as someone of color, there’s a lot of systemic disadvantages and purposeful blockages. How can you get a fire started, or even the hope of an ember to start a fire, when you’re starting at disadvantages with regards to health care, education, and representation?” In the song itself, Pharrell raps, “Gravity on the black man/ With everythin...
Song of the Week: Deftones Make an Electric Return with “Ohms”
Song of the Week breaks down and talks about the song we just can’t get out of our head each week. Find these songs and more on our Spotify New Sounds playlist. Another week of this strange, new reality, another song of the week to go with it. This time around, our song of the week comes from longtime alt-metal group Deftones. For the past three decades or so, the Grammy award-winning band have spread their driving, heavy tracks far and wide, finding fans all over the world. However, lately, there hasn’t been much as far as new music goes. Deftones’ last album was released in 2016, and as we all know, a lot has changed since then. Though we knew a new album was on the way, we didn’t have many details. After a lot of mysterious teasing, Deftones finally dropped some information on us, inclu...
Danbury, Connecticut Renames Sewage Plant in Honor of John Oliver
For the last several years, John Oliver has been in a tiff with the city of Danbury, Connecticut. It’s not entirely clear what prompted his war of words, but on at least two occasions in the last three years, HBO’s Last Week Tonight host has ruthlessly mocked the New York metropolitan suburb. In 2017, he took aim at Danbury for going to absurd lengths in hopes of winning a bid to be Amazon’s headquarters. In a more recent episode, in which he explored racial disparities in the jury selection process of two Connecticut cities, Oliver again singled out Danbury. “If you’re going to forget a town in Connecticut,” Oliver remarked, “why not forget Danbury? Because, and this is true, fuck Danbury!” “I know exactly three things about Danbury,” Oliver added. “USA Today ranked it the ...
HALESTORM’s LZZY HALE: ‘I Miss Playing Live Shows And I Miss Jamming With My Band’
HALESTORM frontwoman Lzzy Hale spoke to GWAR‘s Internet TV show “Undead From Antarctica” about how she and her bandmates have been dealing with the coronavirus crisis. She said (see video below): “Before all this went down, we were getting together pretty much every day. We were one of the lucky ones. We had already set aside some time — well, not this whole time, but the majority of this time that we’re home — anyway to write another record. So before all this went down and every day it was, like, new bad news, new bad news, we were getting together every single day right here in my basement. And then slowly but surely, everyone was just, like, ‘Okay, let’s stay separate for a while.’ We’ve had some socially distant hangs, like with my...
SODOM Completes Mixing ‘Genesis XIX’ Album
German thrash metal veterans SODOM have finished mixing their new album, “Genesis XIX”, at Woodhouse Studio in Hagen, Germany with producer Siggi Bemm. The LP is expected later in the year via SPV/Steamhammer. This past January, SODOM recruited Toni Merkel as its new drummer. He joined the band as the replacement for Stefan “Husky” Hüskens, who announced his departure from SODOM less than two weeks earlier. In a statement explaining his exit from SODOM, Hüskens said that “some changes” at his full-time job, “as well as a few other matters,” were to blame for his decision to leave. Last November, SODOM released a new EP, “Out Of The Frontline Trench”, via SPV/Steamhammer. The effort contained three brand new tracks as well as new r...
SICK OF IT ALL’s LOU KOLLER Believes It Won’t Be Until 2022 Before Metal And Hardcore Live Music Returns To ‘Normal’
SICK OF IT ALL frontman Lou Koller spoke to Italy’s Poisoned Rock webzine about the band’s recording and touring plans for the coming months. He said (see video below): “The only thing concrete we have is we did a lot of what we call ‘test’ videos where we recorded songs together remotely. And they’re old songs — it’s nothing brand new — but we did about six of ’em. And we’re gonna release those. We weren’t gonna actually release ’em at first — they were just gonna be tests — but we were, like, ‘Let’s just release ’em for fun. Hopefully the fans will like it.’ “We have tours booked for next year here in the States and in Europe,” he continued. “Everything’s been shifted from th...
SHINEDOWN Can’t Work On New Music Remotely: ‘We Have To Be Together,’ Says BRENT SMITH
SHINEDOWN singer Brent Smith spoke to the “Talk Is Jericho” podcast about the progress of the songwriting sessions for the band’s follow-up to 2018’s “Attention Attention” album. Asked if he and the other members of SHINEDOWN are working on music remotely, Smith said: “[We’re] definitely not doing the Zoom thing. At the moment, Zach [Myers, guitarist] will kind of send some stuff periodically. On the last record, it started with me and Eric [Bass, bassist and producer] — we’d kind of get in there and start kind of figuring some things out, seeing what the sounds are, and then we’d start bringing people in. But this time around, obviously, Zach‘s gonna be coming in sooner than later. Barry [Kerch, drums], he kind of comes in ...
BTS Break Major YouTube Record With ‘Dynamite’
“Dynamite” is blowing up on YouTube. The new music video from BTS counted 101.1 million views within 24 hours of its release, YouTube confirms to Billboard, making it the music video with the biggest first-day debut to date. The visual for “Dynamite,” the new English-language track from the K-pop superstars, dropped with a bang at midnight on Aug. 21. More than 3 million concurrent viewers immediately tuned in at premiere time. BTS first teased the new single back in July. “We are preparing an album for the second half of this year,” they said at the time, on Korean broadcasting app V Live, “but decided to first release a single because we wanted to reach our fans as soon as possible. Due to COVID-19, people around the world have been going through...
ACLU Offers Britney Spears Support Amid Conservatorship Extension
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is publicly reaching out to Britney Spears, following a ruling this week by a Los Angeles judge to extend her conservatorship until Feb. 1, 2021. “People with disabilities have a right to lead self-directed lives and retain their civil rights,” the nonprofit organization tweeted earlier in the week, on Aug. 19. “If Britney Spears wants to regain her civil liberties and get out of her conservatorship, we are here to help her.” On the afternoon of Aug. 23, they shared an article published on aclu.org, titled “How Conservatorship Threatens Britney Spears’ Civil Rights.” “Conservatorships can result in serious financial, physical, or emotional abuse,” the ACLU tweeted alongside the link. Conservatorship &...
Is Justin Bieber’s ‘Squishy Cute’ Newborn Niece Giving Him Baby Fever?
Bieber fever might be making way for baby fever. Justin Bieber got to meet his very new — and very adorable — niece, Iris Elle Aronow, and the pictures are proof that he’s smitten. The pop star shared a series of snuggly Instagram photos with Iris, Alaia Baldwin and Andrew Aronow’s baby who was born on Aug. 17. “My baby niece iris .. scroll through and whitness the most squishy cute gumdrop ever!! Love you @alaiabaldwin and @andrewaronow ! She’s so precious!” Bieber wrote Sunday (Aug. 23). Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson left a winky-face comment on the post: “This image pretty much seals the deal. Fully expect you and H to have a baby in 2021.” Bieber’s wife, Hailey Baldwin, posted a snapshot on her Instagram ...
Tasha Cobbs Leonard & Kirk Franklin Win Big at Stellar Gospel Music Awards: Here’s the Complete List of Winners
For the second year in a row, the show honored a legendary figure who died during the previous year. Last year it was Aretha Franklin; this year it was John Lewis. Tasha Cobbs Leonard took artist of the year at the Stellar Gospel Music Awards, which were presented in a virtual event that aired on BET on Sunday (Aug. 23). Leonard also won contemporary female vocalist of the year. But Kirk Franklin, who co-hosted the show with Jonathan McReynolds and Koryn Hawthorne, won more awards overall — five. He took male vocalist of the year and contemporary male vocalist of the year, album of the year and contemporary album of the year, and producer of the year. Donald Lawrence won four awards, including song of the year for “Deliver Me (This Is My Exodus).” John P. McKee won three aw...
