politics
Venue cancels Filter show after band shares anti-Trump Facebook post
Filter has had one of their shows in Texas canceled after sharing a post on social media against President Donald Trump. The band was set to play the Speaking Rock Casino in El Paso on Thursday. Before the doors were supposed to open, the band shared a video of them soundchecking. Read more: You can […]
Northern Irish political party compares twenty one pilots imagery to terrorism
Twenty one pilots fans are backing the band after their outfits were deemed “inappropriate” by an Northern Irish political party who also compared it to terrorism. The comments were made after Tyler Joseph and Josh Dunn wore balaclavas and performed in front of a burning car in Belfast’s SSE Arena last Saturday. Read more: Palaye […]
Punk-rock politician Beto O’Rourke attends Metallica concert
Beto O’Rourke further proves he’s the most punk politician ever by attending a Metallica concert. The former democratic congressman from El Paso attended the show in the Texan city. Read more: You can now play ‘Rick & Morty’ themed ‘Operation’ The El Paso Times reports that he watched the show from the pit and even […]
Bad Religion drop new song about Trump's border wall , announce album
Bad Religion has announced they are releasing a new politically-charged album Age Of Unreason. They’ve also released a new song “Chaos From Within” which addresses President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall at the Southern U.S.-Mexico border. Read more: New action-packed ‘Detective Pikachu’ trailer shows even more Pokemon “Throughout history, walls have been used to keep […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal supported by Thom Yorke
Following her plan for the Green New Deal, Bronx congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) has since been supported by a plethora of music lovers and activists. However, the congresswoman appears to have gotten the big thumbs up from one of the most influential rock frontmen of all time, Thom Yorke of Radiohead. Earlier today, Yorke retweeted […]
Staind’s Aaron Lewis slams Elizabeth Warren for Native American ancestry claims
Staind frontman Aaron Lewis blew up on stage about Senator Elizabeth Warren, calling her a “lying bitch.” Warren is a Massachusetts senator and democratic presidential candidate for 2020. Lewis is currently a resident of Massachusetts but was born in Vermont. Lewis is also known for his politically conservative views. Read more: Paramore reacts to ‘Happy […]
Watch Beto O’Rourke kill a Ramones cover while wearing a onesie
Beto O’Rourke is a punk-rock politician. He loves skateboarding, rock music and has a DIY attitude. Now, there is footage of the former democratic congressman from El Paso jamming on stage to “Blitzkrieg Bop” by the Ramones in a onesie and a sheep mask. Yes, you read that right. Read more: Everything coming to and […]
Find out more about the new Facebook petitions feature
Facebook will launch its latest feature to allow people to engage in politics and social justice: petitions. The feature, which will be released Monday, is called Community Actions. It allow people to make petitions via their social media page, according to TechCrunch. Not every user will have access to Community Actions immediately. Read more: Ryan […]
Cardi B and Tomi Lahren had a full-blown Twitter fight about the government shutdown
Cardi B and conservative commentator Tomi Lahren are feuding on Twitter about the government shutdown, and it’s pretty entertaining. It started after the Bronx rapper posted a video, which has been turned into a hilarious song, of herself talking about the government shutdown. Read more: Hear the crazy stories about twenty one pilots, blink-182 shows before […]
Someone made Cardi B’s rant about the government shutdown into a fire song
Cardi B’s on-point video about the government shutdown just got even more amazing. The rapper went viral when she posted an Instagram rant about the government shutdown. Someone took her frustrations and turned it into an amazing song you need to hear right now. Read more: twenty one pilots’ ‘Trench’ helped boost cassette sales in […]
Twisted Sister threaten legal action after politician rewrites song for political ad
After Twisted Sister got wind that Australian politician Clive Palmer had rewritten some of the lyrics to their infamous “We’re Not Gonna Take It” to use in his political campaign, they gave a big N-O we ain’t gonna take it. Read more: Iggy Azalea wears controversial Cradle Of Filth shirt & people are freaking out Palmer […]
Matty Healy ponders what 2010 Kanye West would think about "all of this"
It’s officially 2019, and what better way of bringing in the new year than having some Kanye West Twitter rants to fill our day? In this new round of Twitter rants from West himself, it appears as though the rapper is looking towards the presidency in 2024, while the 1975‘s Matty Healy is looking at what […]
Metalhead mayor signs bill in Pantera Christmas sweater
Christmas has come and gone; the new year is here. But we can’t truly leave 2018 behind without giving props to this absolute legend of a mayor, Tim Keller, for rocking a Pantera Christmas sweater at a bill-signing ceremony last week. That’s right—watch the metalhead mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico, sign a bill in a […]
Alice Cooper doesn’t “look at Bruce Springsteen as political”
Alice Cooper has a few things to say about musicians who tell people who to vote for. The rock icon thinks that politics and rock n’ roll should be separate entities. In an interview with The Guardian, Cooper says that in the past, musicians have abused their power to sway fans within the political sphere. […]
NAACP mounts Facebook boycott amid reports of discrimination
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is urging a boycott of Facebook today after two new reports show Russian trolls specifically targeted black communities on the platform during the 2016 election. The reports (from Oxford University’s Computational Propaganda Project and cybersecurity firm New Knowledge) confirm previous suspicions of Russian meddling in […]
Donald Trump says he looked like Elvis growing up
On the Counting Crows‘ 1994 single “Round Here,” singer Adam Duritz’s misunderstood muse Maria says she’d “like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis.” And going by an unimaginable anecdote delivered Monday in Tupelo, Mississippi, President Donald Trump thinks he was also once a boy who looked like Elvis. Watch him say it, below. […]
Ozzy wants to know the big deal about Brexit, the Kardashians
Heavy metal godfather Ozzy Osbourne does his best Ozzy in a new interview with The Big Issue, the veteran British musician and longtime Los Angeles resident showing a seeming lack of interest in current U.K. politics by wondering the “big deal” about Brexit. (Here’s what else he wants to know: “What the f**k is the […]
Did Kid Rock's fake Senate run violate campaign finance laws?
That fake Senate campaign from Kid Rock apparently didn’t defy any political finance laws set forth by the Federal Election Commission, according to a new report by the Detroit Free Press, even though the Republican-baiting “Kid Rock for U.S. Senate” bid was a purely promotional stunt tied to the “Bawitdaba” rocker’s upcoming album and tour. […]
'Cards Against Humanity' buys land to block Trump's border wall
The company behind risqué party game Cards Against Humanity has purchased a section of land along the United States-Mexico border to help block the controversial wall that President Donald Trump has long promised to build there. Read more: More support added to Bring Me The Horizon tour “If you voted for Trump,” reads an FAQ […]
Anthrax drummer discusses why he won't share his political views online
Anthrax‘s drummer Charlie Benante recently sat with Overdrive (per Blabbermouth) where he discussed the band’s new album and why he won’t post about his political views online anymore. Read more: Ghost’s Tobias Forge talks characteristics he looks for in bandmates During the interview, Overdrive asked Benante about the band’s new album, which will be a follow up […]
