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There’s a photo you’ve probably seen of Barack Obama and Anthony Bourdain hunched over a small table in Hanoi. Their sleeves are rolled up, their top buttons unbuttoned. The floor is speckled with dirt and a rusty fan blows air from a corner. Obama, a few months into his final …

“The part about the writing that was different than any other album was there was no guarantee that I was going to live long enough to record the album,” Yob leader Mike Scheidt told Rolling Stone, “or maybe even long enough for my bandmates to hear it.” Few genres spend …

Goldfrapp recruited Depeche Mode‘s Dave Gahan for their dramatic“Ocean” video. Singer Alison Goldfrapp directed the clip, which cuts between her own veiled visage and meditative shots of Gahan crooning against a white background. Slow-motion scenes of horses appear throughout as the musicians warn in unison, “Every time I think of …

UPDATE: Fleetwood Mac has joined the lineup for the upcomingiHeartRadio Music Festival. *** Justin Timberlake, Jack White, Carrie Underwood and Mariah Carey are among the artists that will perform at this year’s star-studded iHeartRadio Music Festival, which invades Las Vegas on September 21st and 22nd. Sam Smith, Imagine Dragons, Shawn …

There are good modern B movies – those films that still borrow the old termite-art terminology of back-half programming, because what does “double feature” even mean anymore, but have kept the phrase’s shorthand description for guttery, grungy giddiness alive – and then there’s Upgrade. There are sublimely ridiculous Robocop rip-offs …

Gorillaz take over Venice Beach with Jack Black in the video for “Humility,” one of two new offerings from the animated outfit’s upcoming albumThe Now Now, out June 29th via Warner Bros. Gorillaz co-founder Jamie Hewlett directed the “Humility” clip, which finds animated singer 2D roller skating around Venice. Black …

On February 14th, Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people at Stoneman Douglass High School in Parkland, Florida, using an assault-style rifle. He didn’t buy the gun at Dick’s Sporting Goods, but it was later discovered that Cruz had purchased a separate firearm from the retailer the previous November. The news resonated …

Sleep, The Sciences | ★★★★At the Gates, To Drink From the Night Itself | ★★★ 1/2Burn the Priest,Legion: XX | ★★★Five Finger Death Punch |And Justice for None ★★ In the late Seventies, heavy metal transcended musical genres and became a culture. Metalheads grew their hair as long as they …

Johnny Marr will embark on a lengthy North American tour this fall in support of his new album, Call the Comet, out June 15th. The trek kicks off September 15th at the Cannery Ballroom in Nashville, Tennessee and includes stops in Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Mexico City, …

Earlier today, in Malibu, CA, not far from the water, a few hours after first light, naked in bed because his jammies were in the wash, Benedict Cumberbatch, 41, came to life. He would have risen earlier but the night before he’d been in Las Vegas, plumping his voice-over work …