Throughout his breakthrough year, XXXTentacion has faced allegations of domestic abuse by strangulation, false imprisonment, aggravated battery of a pregnant woman as well as charges of witness-tampering. Pitchfork has now obtained a 142-page transcript of the reported victim's testimony, in which she describes in horrifying detail the alleged instances of the rapper's repeated domestic violence. The...
The National, traditionally, have been at their best when they sound like they’re either playing on a mountaintop or blearily muddling through a song in a small, slightly-disintegrating south-Brooklyn apartment, as if trying not to disturb the neighbors. These contrasts were once starkly, powerfully delineated: “Daughters of the Soho Riots” versus “Abel,” “Racing Like a Pro” versus...
In the middle of their Joshua Tree 30th anniversary tour, U2 stopped by The Tonight Show to play "Bullet the Blue Sky," from that album, for a visibly very excited Jimmy Fallon and his studio audience. Bono added an extra verse to the song that was clearly about Donald Trump, though he didn't mention the president's name--just a guy with "skin as thin as an Orange Crush" who could leave us "vaporized...
