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Vampire Weekend have posted a video for their recent single "Harmony Hall," the first release off their upcoming fourth album Father of the Bride. The clip, directed by past collaborator Emmett Malloy, features Ezra Koenig and the rest of VW (and Dev Hynes and Ariel Rechtshaid) stalking around staring into a warped lens and playing in a candlelit room. These scenes feel like an implicit tribute...
On June 23, 1993, Lorena Bobbitt (now known as Lorena Gallo) grabbed a kitchen knife in the dead of night and severed her husband John’s penis, taking it with her as she fled their shared apartment and ultimately tossing it out a car window. The organ was later surgically reattached, and both Lorena and John ended up facing criminal charges: Lorena for malicious mutilation and John for rape, which...
In order to understand the themes driving Avril Lavigne's long-awaited new album Head Above Water, we must first take into account one of the most bizarre, stupid, and strangely enlightening cultural conspiracy theories of our time: the Avril Lavigne death hoax. The theory, first surfaced on a Brazilian fan blog in 2005 and propagated internationally ever since, posits (a): that Lavigne committed suicide...
