Two things are true: Amazon makes life drastically easier for everyone who uses it, and drastically harder for almost everyone who works for it. This conflict is true of most companies; work, in general, is not something that makes life easier. But in the midst of a global pandemic and …
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On the latest at-home episode of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert paid tribute to his friend John Prine, who is currently hospitalized due to complications with the coronavirus. The late-night host shared a previously unaired performance from 2016, where he joined Prine for a duet of “That’s the Way the …
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Adam Schlesinger, co-founder of the New Jersey power-pop group Fountains of Wayne and Emmy- and Grammy-winning songwriter for film, television, and theater, died Wednesday from complications related to COVID-19. He was 52. Schelsinger’s lawyer, Josh Grier, confirmed the musician’s death to Rolling Stone.Schlesinger was hospitalized in March and tested positive …
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Elton John hosted a “living room concert” for coronavirus relief on Sunday and tapped everyone from Dave Grohl to Billie Eilish to Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong to Mariah Carey to perform as part of the virtual concert. Grohl performed an acoustic rendition of “My Hero,” dedicating his performance to …
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It was just one day after Testament returned home from a five-week European tour earlier this month that the thrash-metal band’s frontman, Chuck Billy, started to feel ill. “I had an achy body, headaches, coughing, tight chest, I lost my sense of smell and taste — the whole thing,” he …
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After scoring a Best New Artist Grammynomination, Black Pumas had a lot of big plans coming up. The Austin, Texas psych-soul band were scheduled to be on the road this month and next, both here and in South America. But, of course, all those shows have been postponed, and the …
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On a rainy evening in Los Angeles, the flagship store for Genius, a cannabis brand catering to hipsters and tourists on Melrose Avenue, is empty. A lone budtender wearing latex gloves stands behind glass display cases in the middle of the showroom, surrounded by vapes and edibles and jars of …
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Miami’s Ultra Music Festival may have been canceled due to the coronavirus, but fans will now be able to experience the festival virtually. Sirius XM announced on Monday that they will broadcast the Ultra Virtual Audio festival via UMF Radio on Friday, March 20th at 5:00 p.m. ET. The channel …
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If the story of the COVID-19 outbreak seems familiar — a rare disease strikes a small area, only to become a deadly global pandemic — it’s because we have indeed seen it all before. Not just in the real-life cases of other diseases including SARS and bird flu, but in …
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With just two weekends to go before the scheduled conclusion of Blake Shelton‘s Friends and Heroes Tour with John Anderson, the Bellamy Brothers, and Trace Adkins, the singer has announced that the remaining five dates will be postponed due to growing concern over COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus. Beginning …
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