Check out this new album of Botswana music guitar that comes out today
Sometimes, YouTube is the greatest. Sure, it’s easy to get lost in bottomless quagmires on that godforsaken website—hell, while doing research for this piece, I started watching related videos and somehow ended up watching SNL sketches about the 2000 presidential debates half an hour later—but the upside of its endlessness is the possibility of uncovering wonderful,…
Riot Fest Adoptable Puppy of the Week: Maybelline
Maybelline got her name because she has the most stunning light blue eyes and it looks like she has permanent eyeliner on… maybe she’s born with it? Maybelline was very shy at first. However, after spending some time with us, she’s become such an easy, nice girl! She knows how to have a great time…
Trump, Rousey, and too many McMahons: A brief history of WWE’s labor problem
WWE is the McMahons’ house, and we’re all living in it until it burns downAt the 2018 TCA Winter Press Tour last January, WWE showed a sizzle real bursting with celebrities, minus any who’d gone on to political office. No Arnold Schwarzenegger, no Barack Obama, no Hillary Clinton, and, most notably for someone with so much history with the brand, no Donald Trump. When asked, CBO Stephanie McMahon said…
Spacehog kicks off our new series, (More Than One) Hit Wonders
Ooh-woo-ooh-OOH-OOH-OO-OO-OO! Okay, yeah, spelling it out doesn’t really do the trick, but everybody knows the vocal melody to Spacehog’s “In the Meantime.” The lone hit of the NYC-by-way-of-Leeds quartet’s career led off 1995 debut Resident Alien, and is as still as ubiquitous on jukeboxes and karaoke nights as Harvey Danger’s “Flagpole Sitta” or the Toadies’…
Would You Like A Job At Paisley Park? They’re Hiring
Have you always wanted to work at Paisley Park? You’re in luck. Paisley Park is looking for an Archives Supervisor. There is a lot of stuff at Paisley Park, and they are looking for someone to “actively work in the care, catalog, storage and preservation of all artifacts and archival materials; the care, cleaning, and…
A Perfect Circle performed on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ this week
A Perfect Circle appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! this past Monday night performing two songs from new album Eat the Elephant. Below, you can check out the band performing “TalkTalk” and “So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish” on live television. And yes, the latter song title is a nod to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy;…
We Double Dare you to not love this Nickelodeon reboot
If nostalgia is a hell of a drug (which it is), then Nickelodeon is El Chapo. And if Nickelodeon is El Chapo, then the messiest show ever, Double Dare, is whatever El Chapo’s top-shelf product is (we’ve never done drugs). The slime-infested children’s network is bringing back this classic trivia show that was famously covered in…
Would it kill you to watch this new Dead to Me video?
The answer is no, it wouldn’t.Last February, we informed you that Dead to Me, the San Francisco-based band with a deliciously-named singer, is never going to die. Hot off of 2016’s introspective comeback EP, I Wanna Die in Los Angeles, the band had just dropped “Fear Is the New Bliss,” an excellent new single that found bassist/vocalist Tyson “Chicken” Annicharico…
