In Rolling Stone‘s “Song Breakdown” video, Stephen Colbert unearths two unlikely inspirations for Chance the Rapper‘s “Favorite Song” (featuring Childish Gambino): legendary fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien and Victorian-era theatrical team Gilbert and Sullivan. “I just want to talk about one verse of the song that really has three very distinctive …
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Rose McGowan, a leading voice in the #MeToo movement, has penned an open letter to Asia Argento, a beleaguered mouthpiece for the movement, following accusations that Argento paid off someone who’d accused her of sexual assault. Both women became some of the most prominent voices in the #MeToo movement in …
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Taylor Swift warmly embraced her Nashville roots during the Music City stop of her Reputation Tour. Performing at Nissan Stadium, the pop superstar recalled how she and her mother attended CMA Music Festival at the venue as everyday fans soon after moving to Nashville from Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. In 2011, she’d …
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On his first solo project since 2013, Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnaldsadds a new element – robots! – to his mix of post-minimalist repetition, indie swoon, film score frisson and ambient drifts.Re: Memberis a conversation between Arnaldsand algorithms, the programmed and the human, his own intentions and new inspirations, composed with …
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“What you gonna do with that pistol?” asks one brother to another in a chilling new short film inspired by Lucero‘s “Long Way Back Home” and starring Academy Award-nominated actor Michael Shannon. Directed by Jeff Nichols, the brother of Lucero frontman Ben Nichols, and shot in Lucero’s hometown of Memphis, …
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We can’t look to Donald Trump for guidance or wisdom in the wake of Tuesday’s twin blows to his presidency. We know that he’s going to go down fighting to the end, snarling back at his foes and anyone else who gets in his way. We know he’ll continue to …
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Days after releasing “Heart Like a Wheel” to members of his Church Choir fan club, Eric Church performed the Desperate Man track for the first time, debuting it during the encore of his Sunday-night set at the Country Thunder Music Festival in Calgary, Canada. “By myself, I’m going to try …
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When Eric Clapton announced his Christmas album Happy Xmas, it appeared to be a typical move by a rock legend. But buried in between tracks like “White Christmas” and “Silent Night” is a surprising track: “Jingle Bells (In Memory of Avicii).” It’s unclear what personal connection Clapton has to the …
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Netflix revealed Friday that it has canceled comedian Michelle Wolf‘s late-night series The Break, just three months and 10 episodes into the talk show’s run. The streaming service did not elaborate on why The Break was canceled, but The Hollywood Reporter cited a low viewership that did not warrant a …
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The most beautiful words ever spoken about Aretha Franklin came from her friend and producer Luther Vandross, back in 1982: “This woman ain’t entertainment. She’s done opened the books to my life and told everybody. Like Roberta Flack used to say in ‘Killing Me Softly,’ ‘I thought he found my …
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