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Fatimah Warner’s verified Twitter page is an endless sprawl of revolutionary reading material (she’s been studying Karl Marx ), a bulletin of global atrocities ( LGBTQ activists in Ghana are living in fear of violent persecution, don’t you know), and a celebration of advocates and activists (Nina Simone and communist writer Claudia Jones, recently). With only four songs released since her last album as the rapper Noname , 2018’s triumphant Room 25 , Warner has been engaging fans, detractors, and spectators in her radical education. On the internet, she behaves more like a peer (a comrade, one might say) than as an artist, so much so that she tweeted “lmao i don’t even know how to promote myself as a rapper anymore,” about a month before her song “Rainforest” hit streaming platforms today. Related Stories Song You Need to Know: Jay Som and Palehound Join Forces as Bachelor on 'Anything at All' Song You Need to Know: Got7's 'Encore' Shows the K-pop … [Read more...] about Noname’s ‘Rainforest’ Is Revolutionary Music You Can Dance To

Ava Max brought her recent single, “My Head and My Heart,” to Jimmy Kimmel Live Thursday, February 25th. Max performed the propulsive dance-pop track while moving in and out of a large cage as a crew of dancers flew around her. The track, which interpolates ATC’s turn-of-the-millennium Eurodance smash “Around the World (La La La La La),” finds Max in the throes of a tortured relationship as she belts the chorus, “My head and my heart are torturing me/Cause my mind, and your arms, I go to extremes/When angels tell me run, and monsters call it love/My head and my heart are caught in between.” Max released “My Head and My Heart” last November, while the music video for the track was released Thursday as well, to coincide with the Kimmel performance. “My Head and My Heart” was added as a bonus track to Max’s debut album, Heaven and Hell , which was released in September. … [Read more...] about Ava Max Lights Up ‘Kimmel’ With ‘My Head and My Heart’

Before the summer 2016 release of Telefone , the debut album that launched her to a quiet kind of stardom, Noname considered quitting rap. “I used to care-give, so I probably would’ve went back to doing that,” she says. “Maybe would’ve got my nursing degree, and just become a nurse. That was the only other thing that I enjoyed doing.” Music, at that point, wasn’t paying the bills: “I was only able to pay my rent through doing little one-off college shows and maybe a feature for $300 here and there,” she adds. “I was in the financial in-between of, ‘Should I continue to try to pursue this, or should I just get a job?'” One of those one-off features, though, was for Chance The Rapper, her Chicago compatriot, on his breakout album Acid Rap in 2013. It’s a scene-stealing performance on a scene-defining full-length and, not long after, people were waiting for more from the quietly confident, rhythmically daring rapper. See Also Drakeo the Ruler Just … [Read more...] about Noname Is One of the Best Rappers Alive

M ike Love bounds up the stairs inside his massive Lake Tahoe home (10 bedrooms in all, 12 bathrooms, two elevators, not to be believed) and into a large walk-in closet stuffed to overflowing with garish, multicolored shirts and a gazillion baseball caps, many of them emblazoned with the name of his band, the Beach Boys . A suitcase rests on the floor. Love nods at it, prods it with his foot. “A lot more shirts are in there,” he says, “because, if you must know, I haven’t unpacked.” And why should he unpack? For the past 54 years, he and various versions of the Beach Boys , which these days include only him as an original member, have toured almost constantly. On his current outing, he has 172 dates lined up, cramming 19 European shows into 22 days this past December, for instance, and shortly thereafter flying back stateside to give the 6,500 citizens of tiny Avon, Colorado, the chance to hear all about California girls. From there, it’s onward, evermore, venues big and small, … [Read more...] about The Ballad of Mike Love

Sony Pictures Classics is set to release awards contender The Father in select New York and Los Angeles theaters today before expanding nationwide March 12 before landing on PVOD on March 26. That’s quite a theater-to-digital journey for the Florian Zeller-directed drama starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman. The film, which premiered at Sundance in 2020, is adapted from Zeller’s 2014 play which starred Frank Langella, who won a Tony Award his performance. Zeller and Christopher Hampton adapted the play which follows Anthony (Hopkins), a defiant 80-year-old man who lives alone and refuses the carers that his daughter, Anne (Colman), encouragingly introduces — and she needs the help. She can’t make daily visits to her father and his grip on reality is unraveling. Related Story 'Cherry': Read The Screenplay For The Indie Drama That Is Close To Home For The Russo Brothers The Father marks Zeller feature directorial debut — and what a debut it is. The … [Read more...] about ‘The Father’ And ‘Cherry’ Open in Theaters; Billie Holiday And Billie Eilish Hit Streaming – Specialty Preview