The rock band made clear that they did not authorize the White House to use their music, adding that the Trump administration "missed the point" of the lyrics Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at ...

The members of Semisonic are not supporters of Donald Trump, or at least of the way he's using their signature song. On Monday, the band publicly objected to the President using their hit "Closing ...

WASHINGTON (TNND) — An alternative rock band that formed during the mid-1990s is speaking out after the White House allegedly used one of their songs in a social media post without the band's ...

Asked about the post Monday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said "our entire government clearly is leaning into the message of this president." By The Associated Press The band Semisonic is pushing ...

As we know by now, the Trump administration’s grasp of popular music is literal at best, nauseating at worst, and confusing always. After a summer of President Trump dancing to “YMCA”—but not doing ...

The band Semisonic is pushing back at the White House for using their hit song “Closing Time” over a social media post that shows a shackled deportee. The White House added the song in a post of a man ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The band Semisonic is pushing back at the White House for using their hit song “Closing Time” over a social media post that shows a shackled deportee. The White House added the song in ...

Semisonic, the band behind the 1998 hit “Closing Time,” said the Trump administration did not ask for permission to use the song in a video appearing to show migrant deportations. “We did not ...