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Amy Winehouse died 10 years ago today. Revisit our 2007 cover story on the legendary singer at the link in bio. Photo: Rob Verhorst/Getty
A massive new Bob Dylan box set will spotlight his 'Infidels' work of the early 1980s. The package includes outtakes from 'Shot of Love,' 'Infidels,' and 'Empire Burlesque' alongside live rehearsals, his 1984 European tour, and a 1984 'Letterman' appearance. “It’s quite often said that Bob lost his way in the Eighties,” a source close to the Dylan camp tells us. “But he was searching for his way in the Eighties. This set shows that search.” “There were lots of great songs during that period that fell sway to the technology of that time,” says the source. “We knew that if we could strip away some of that artifice, we could show there were great songs there." Tap the link in our bio to read more. Photo: Ken Regan
Veteran Puerto Rican rapper Yandel teams up with producer Tainy for an album that pushes reggaeton forward organically. Read our review of 'Dynasty' at the link in bio. Photo: Tomas Stockton/Imagine It Media
The #FreeBritney movement continues to make waves in Congress. U.S. Representatives Nancy Mace (a Republican from South Carolina) and Charlie Crist (a Democrat from Florida) have introduced the bipartisan Freedom and Right to Emancipate from Exploitation (FREE) Act, which aims to establish federal safeguards for conservatees. The FREE Act has been billed as a “four-pronged approach” to protecting individuals under guardianship. It would include the right to petition the court to have a private guardian or conservator replaced with a state-employed public guardian, a family member, or a private agent without the need to prove misconduct or abuse — as well as an assigned independent caseworker to monitor for signs of abuse and neglect. The act also calls for the disclosure of finances from caseworkers and public guardians to make sure there are no conflicts of interest as well as total transparency through annual reports on the state of the conservatorship. Tap the link in our bio to read more.
Hypocrisy, spreading lies, and fear-mongering are all well-known staples over at Fox. But Monday’s news about how Fox Corporation has already implemented a vaccine passport-type program for its own employees that is similar to what hosts like Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham have loudly railed against is a window into how little they actually care about the well-being of the people who watch their shows. Businesses that require employees to provide proof of vaccination, commonly referred to as a “vaccine passport,” have been slammed frequently on the network. Tucker Carlson has called the idea of issuing vaccination passports the medical equivalent of “Jim Crow” segregationist laws. Another host compared the requirements to communist East Germany, and Laura Ingraham has falsely claimed that such programs are akin to tracking mechanisms. But so far not one host has told their audience about “FOX Clear Pass,” which works for Fox employees the same way most “vaccine passports” systems do in other businesses. Tap the link in our bio to read more. Photo Illustration by Joe Rodriguez. Images in Illustration: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (carlson) Weyo/Adobe Stock (Needles)
Let’s start with: Correlation is not causation. (Listen to your imploring math teachers, kids; the ramifications of shoddy data science are no joke.) And yet, when the most popular band in the world releases a song primly named after a pantry staple, one has to wonder whether it packed enough of a Pavlovian punch to actually influence purchasing patterns of said pantry staple. On May 21st, BTS released “Butter” as a single. The earworm made immediate conquest of music charts; it came in at Number Two on the Rolling Stone 100 Songs Chart with the second-highest debut of 2021 (beat out only by Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License”) and with the highest debut of the year by song sales. And in the week after May 21st, U.S. butter-sales volume jumped 30 percent higher than in the same week in 2019, Alan Bjerga, communications lead for the American Butter Institute and the National Milk Producers Federation, confirms to Rolling Stone, citing numbers from the butter and butter blends syndicated database of research firm IRI. Might butter’s uptick at the end of May 2021 be a direct bump from the ferocious foothold of “Butter” on American audiences, subliminally triggering salivary glands and sending people flying straight from cars — where the K-pop tune had been making ceaseless circuit on pop radio — and into Kroger and Safeway dairy aisles? Tap the link in our bio to read more. Photo Illustration by Joe Rodriguez. Images used in illustration: Lee Jin-man/AP Images (BTS); Butter Stick: LEVENT KONUK/Adobe Stock
Lighters up for the hip-hop legend Biz Markie, the Diabolical One, the Inhuman Orchestra, one of the most universally beloved figures anywhere in the music world. The Biz was the class clown of old-school Eighties hip-hop, but he preferred the title of the Human Beatbox and Rap King. He brought his own kind of wild-style chaos to everything he did, a jester with soul, which is why he became the all-time champion of cameos — he made every song he touched better. When it came to freestyling, beatboxing, rocking the party, or just making booger jokes dance, nobody beat the Biz. At the link in our bio, Rob Sheffield remembers the diabolical genius of rap’s old-school joker king. Photo by David Corio/Redferns/GettyImages
#Roadrunner paints a portrait of chef/author/TV show host Anthony Bourdain as a complicated man — and someone whose loss we're still grieving over. Tap the link in bio to read our review. Photo: CNN/Focus Features
Biz Markie, the pioneering rapper, producer, and beatboxer whose jovial goofiness and innovative samples made him a singular presence in hip-hop, has died at the age of 57. Tap the link in our bio to read more. Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
When James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich formed Metallica in 1981, they were a couple of pimply faced, adrenaline-starved teenage outcasts obsessed with the speed of Motörhead, weightiness of Black Sabbath, and intricate riffs of New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands like Iron Maiden and Diamond Head. They wanted their metal faster, tougher, and more intense than anything they had ever heard, so they had to invent it, introducing thrash metal to the world on their debut, 'Kill ‘Em All.' Forty years after their first jam session, Metallica no longer worry about crushing speed limits; their music has become more melodic and heartfelt over the years without sacrificing any of the sonic heft that propelled them to become one of the planet’s biggest bands. They’ve influenced everyone from Slipknot to Yo-Yo Ma. At the link in our bio is a guide to navigate the group’s extensive discography, from their years pounding out aggression in San Francisco’s Battery to ruling stadiums with “Enter Sandman” and everything in between. Photo: Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty Images
Starting September 1st, the state of Texas is offering a $10,000 bounty to any private citizen willing to sue another person who, in some way, helped make an abortion possible. The potential list of targets for such lawsuits is endless: from a pregnant person’s doctor and nurses, a therapist or pastor who offered moral support, a partner who helped pay for the procedure, a friend (even an Uber driver) who drove the patient to the clinic. Under the new law — which a group of doctors, clergy and clinic owners sued to block Tuesday — any or all of them could be taken to court by a stranger with no connection to the patient whatsoever and forced to pay a minimum of $10,000 each, plus legal fees, for “aiding or abetting” an abortion. Tap the link in our bio to read more.
Historic protests swept Cuba on Sunday as thousands of people gathered across the island and expressed their outrage over longstanding economic hardships, food scarcity, and vaccine shortages, marking one of the country’s biggest anti-government demonstrations in the last decade. Social media videos captured Cubans marching through city streets, shouting “Libertad!” But amid the cries for “Freedom!” another refrain was heard over and over again: “Patria y vida!” a reference to a song of the same name that’s quickly become the anthem for a nation that’s reached a boiling point. The Cuban artists Yotuel Romero, Descemer Bueno, Maykel Osorbo, Eliécer “el Funky” Márquez, and the reggaeton duo Gente de Zona collaborated on the rap track and released it in February, after which it amassed more than six million views on YouTube. The lyrics take direct aim at Cuba’s communist government: “No more lies. My people ask for freedom, not more doctrines. We no longer shout, ‘Motherland or death,’ but ‘homeland and life,’ and we begin to build what we dreamed, what they destroyed with their hands.” The title “Patria Y Vida” (“homeland and life”) is a bitter play on “patria o muerte” (“homeland or death”), a popular slogan associated with the rise of the communist leader Fidel Castro in the late Fifties. The original phrase, which is still plastered on buildings in Havana today, was once a revolution-era call for Cubans to emancipate, and fight for, their homeland to the death. The slogan has some overlap with Cuba’s national anthem “La Bayamesa,” which includes a line proclaiming that “to die for the homeland is to live.” However, in “Patria Y Vida,” the artists turn this idea on its head and instead declare that what they want is their homeland — and to live. At the link in our bio, the artists behind the song explain its origins. Photo via YouTube
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