Amazon’s Homecoming — adapted from the popular podcast, starring Julia Roberts and directed by Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail — debuted last week. As compelling as it was, it left certain questions to be discussed once the 10-episode season was done. Full spoilers coming up just as soon as I …
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On October 3rd, Michele McLaughlin got some exciting news: Her music has been streamed over one billion times. Young artists in popular genres are racking up streams like crazy these days — presumably McLaughlin is an ascendant rapper releasing 90-second battering rams through SoundCloud? Or maybe she’s the guest vocalist …
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In the spring of 1982, Ozzy Osbourne‘s life changed in an instant. In the years since Black Sabbath had fired him, in 1979, he’d picked himself up again, put out two successful albums that helped redefine heavy metal and garnered a following that rivaled that of his previous band. A …
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Ozzy Osbourne may be the self-proclaimed “Prince of Darkness” when he’s onstage singing hits like “Bark at the Moon” and “Paranoid,” but it was a much sweeter scene backstage before he went on at his tour kickoff earlier this year. When we visited Osbourne at Allentown, Pennsylvania’s PPL Center, his …
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On Wednesday night, the Mac Miller Circles Fund hosted a tribute concert in the late rapper’s memory. It was a star-studded event — Mac was a near universally beloved figure in hip-hop — featuring artists like SZA, Chance The Rapper, Rae Sremmurd and Travis Scott. It also featured video interstitials, …
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Across the Dominican Republic and New York City, a community of underground musicologists and engineers have committed themselves to transforming cars, vans and SUVs into gargantuan, roving speaker systems. These custom automobiles and their music-obsessed makers were profiled in a short film, Más Fuerte, released in conjunction with Presidente. Sean …
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Sharon Van Etten blends past and present in the frenetic new video for her recent single, “Comeback Kid.” The track will appear on Van Etten’s forthcoming album, Remind Me Tomorrow, out January 18th via Jagjaguwar. Jonathan William Turner directed the video, in which Van Etten bellows the blistering, synth-heavy cut …
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In October 2017,Candi Staton was at a Nashville recording studio, working on a new song called “The Prize Is Not Worth the Pain.” As her band stretched out the disco-funk tune into an extended jam, the singer began improvising phrases and one-liners. At the very end, Staton eventually arrived at …
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Classic Nineties comedy movie Clueless is getting a remake, Deadline reports. Girls Trip writer Tracy Oliver has been tapped to produce, while Glow writer Marquita Robinson will pen the script for the Paramount Pictures project. Directed and written by Amy Heckerling, the 1995 original was loosely based on Jane Austen’s …
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Tiffany Haddish has announced a stand-up tour. The 2019 trek is named #SheReady after her most common catchphrase. Haddish’s tour will launch in Miami on New Year’s Eve and then head to the west coast. The rest of the dates take place in California, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon and New …
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