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This guy wants to form a MAGA version of Rage Against the Machine

May 9, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

I’m constantly amused by social media posts from people who have suddenly discovered that Rage Against the Machine is a “woke” band. They’re appalled at this realization. Duh. Have you not been paying

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“Super” game? Not for the cheerleaders

February 9, 2025 Amber Healy 0 Comments 4 min read

The big football event Sunday night is an incredibly lucrative one for many layers of people: Kendrick Lamar is making in the neighborhood of $1 million per performance; the average commercial costs an

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We need a Diddy report to start the week

January 13, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

As you’ll soon see, the stories/theories/conspiracies around Diddy are pretty, pretty, pretty wild. Diddy has been connected to the devastating California wildfires. What? How? He’s in a jail in Brooklyn? How could he

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A holiday tradition: I helpfully deconstruct “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” [VIDEO]

December 24, 2024 Alan Cross 11 Comments 0 min read

Re-posting this video is turning out to be something of a Christmas tradition. Sorry if I ruin it for everyone (it does generate some serious hate mail, but I don’t care. C’mon! It’s

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This headline is real: Mark Zuckerberg just released a single with T-Pain

November 14, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Yes, the Mark Zuckerberg who co-founded Facebook and owns Meta, Threads, WhatsApp, and all the rest of it. In another move that will have people wondering what in the living F**K billionaires are

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This may be the weirdest (and most disgusting) release of a single in the history of music

November 7, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 3 min read

There are a couple of ways to approach record collecting, The first is to look for gaps in your collection when it comes to the essentials and fill them. Others search for rare

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We need to talk about singer Lily Allen’s feet

October 29, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

Well, we really don’t, but Lily Allen is making all kinds of news with her feet, specifically her OnlyFans account where she sells pictures of them. She says she makes more money from

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Random music news for Tuesday, October 29, 2024

October 29, 2024 Alan Cross 1 Comment 1 min read

One more week until the US presidential election and then, I fear, the real weirdness will begin. Meanwhile, distract yourself with some music news for October 29, 2024. More music news? Look here.

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A MAGA tried to troll Taylor Swift by doing this ABOVE her concert in Miami

October 21, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Taylor Swift continued her Eras tour at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. Florida is, of course, home to Donald Trump and a whack of his supporters. Someone paid for this message to be

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Donald Trump had a town hall. It turned into a 39-minute listening party.

October 15, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

With exactly three weeks before the US presidential election, both candidates are blitzing the electorate with campaign stops, interviews, and town halls. Donald Trump was in Oaks, a town in the battleground state

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This production of Sancta Susanna is not your parents’ opera. It is TOTALLY crazy. Let me explain.

October 14, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

Opera is one of those artforms that, try as I might, just doesn’t speak to me. Believe me, I’ve tried. This German production, however, may prompt me to try it one more time.

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