U.K. singer-songwriter Call Me Loop has released a new acoustic version of her 2020 single, “Rosé.” The new spin finds Call Me Loop paring back the shuffling disco groove of the original and centering the song around lush keys, acoustic guitar, and finger snap percussion. To match the laid-back, homemade …
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Director and screenwriter J Blakeson’s new filmI Care a Lot, starring Rosamund Pike(who just won a Golden Globe for the role), follows the journey of a Massachusetts con artist who steals elderly people’s assets by becoming their legal guardian — before finding herself caught in the web of another criminal …
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The life story of Jeff Buckley will be told in the upcoming biopic Everybody Here Wants You, and Broadway actor/musician Reeve Carney has been cast in the lead role. The Buckley estate backs the film and has granted access to his full musical library. “This will be the only official …
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A highly-anticipated U.S. intelligence assessment concluded that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) approved the operation to kill Saudi journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. Khashoggi was murdered by agents of the Saudi government at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The two-page report, released by the …
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In AppleTV’s new documentary Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, director R.J. Cutler captures the type of chaotic, thrilling year in the life of a pop star that few filmmakers get to access. The doc follows Eilish from the final weeks of recording her massive debut album When We …
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Wolf Alice have announced new album, Blue Weekend. The follow-up to 2018’s Mercury Prize-winning Visions of a Life, the upcoming LP arrives on June 11th via Dirty Hit/RCA Records and is available for preorder. The band also shared the video for the album’s first single, “The Last Man on Earth.” …
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BTS made their MTV Unplugged debut on Tuesday, where they performed from Seoul, South Korea. The septet — RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook — delivered a five-song set that included live premieres of songs from 2020’s Be as well as a cover of a Coldplay hit alongside …
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Tune-Yards delivered a joyous rendition of their recent single, “Hold Yourself,” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Monday, February 22nd. The performance found Merrill Garbus, Nate Brenner, and their backing band channeling a kind of Seventies children’s show vibe, filling the set with bright monochrome colors. Garbus started the …
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A version of this story was originally published in November 2017 and has since been updated. One night in the late 1950s, the Flamingos’ bus pulled up to a concert hall in Birmingham, Alabama, and a row of 30 to 50 police officers holding rifles and billy clubs was waiting …
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Justine Skye has released a new video for “Intruded,” which features Bella Hadid, Lil Yachty, Timbaland, and a lot of video surveillance. Directed by Nina Holmgren, the video opens with Skye on the floor surrounded by vintage electronics, as her pulse is detected on an EKG. Hadid calls her, her …
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