TMZ is reporting that Tom Petty has been put on life support following a cardiac arrest in his home.
Update: The latest report is that Tom Petty has passed away. He was 66.
Update #2: TMZ is now reporting that “[t]he singer is not expected to live through the day, but he’s still clinging to life.”
Update #3: Tom Petty’s manager has confirmed that Mr. Petty has passed away.
Morrissey played seven songs from his upcoming album at a BBC concert. And between songs he made comments implying that the recent UKIP elections were rigged against anti-Islam candidate Anne Marie Waters.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs have released a trailer for their upcoming There is No Modern Romance documentary.
No Warning have released a video for “Hell Realm.”
Kendrick Lamar has announced a European tour with James Blake.
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Radiohead’s Thom Yorke has announced a few upcoming solo tour dates.
Vox:
Among developed nations, the US is far and away the most violent — in large part due to the easy access many Americans have to firearms. These charts and maps show what that violence looks like compared with the rest of the world, why it happens, and why it’s such a tough problem to fix.
LAS VEGAS—In the hours following a violent rampage in Las Vegas in which a lone attacker killed more than 50 individuals and seriously injured 400 others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Monday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place.
The Onion have been running this same piece, only changing the number of victims and the locations, since at least 2014.
A gunman on a high floor of a Las Vegas hotel rained a rapid-fire barrage on an outdoor concert festival on Sunday night, killing at least 58 people, injuring hundreds of others, and sending thousands of terrified survivors fleeing for cover, in one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history.
We need sweeping gun reform, and we need it now.
Haim have shared their video for “Little of Your Love.”
Zeynep Tufekci, writing for The New York Times:
In a largely automated platform like Facebook, what matters most is not the political beliefs of the employees but the structures, algorithms and incentives they set up, as well as what oversight, if any, they employ to guard against deception, misinformation and illegitimate meddling. And the unfortunate truth is that by design, business model and algorithm, Facebook has made it easy for it to be weaponized to spread misinformation and fraudulent content. Sadly, this business model is also lucrative, especially during elections. Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, called the 2016 election “a big deal in terms of ad spend” for the company, and it was. No wonder there has been increasing scrutiny of the platform.
Facebook’s “if both sides are mad, we’re doing something right” defense is absolutely absurd.
Demi Lovato performed a stripped down version of “Sorry Not Sorry” and “Tell Me You Love Me” for Vevo.
Pre-orders are now up for Staircase Spirits’ new EP, Love Stories. The EP is due out December 8th.