Billie Eilish and Finneas appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Monday night for a moody, black and white performance of their James Bond theme, “No Time to Die.” The brother/sister duo performed the song in some sort of grand hall — the simple rendition (just piano and voice) …
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Saturday Night Live “rebroadcasted” Tuesday’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden for the first cold open of Season 46, with Alec Baldwin reprising the role of the president and Jim Carrey making his much-anticipated debut as the former vice president. Although Trump’s post-debate coronavirus diagnosis threatened to shake …
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As part of our newly updated survey of the500 Greatest Albums of All Time, we’re publishing a series of pieces on the making and impact of key records from the list. Prince and the Revolution’s Purple Rain came in at number eight. The following piece was originally published in 2016, …
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In this century, Bruce Springsteen‘s influence has been wide-ranging and easy to find, with artists from the Killers to Lana Del Rey proudly name-checking him. In the post-Born in the U.S.A. Nineties, it was somewhat rarer to hear musicians cite him, but there was one major exception: Melissa Etheridge, who …
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Joe Biden and Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a meaningful disagreement back in 1993, during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Biden chaired it at the time. They were discussing societal change, and specifically how it should come about. Should a court move ahead of a populace’s attitudes and …
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — An old man ranting into the night. That’s how it looked out on the windswept patch of tarmac at the Fayetteville Regional Airport on Saturday night, the venue for President Trump’s latest rally. I had left the press pen behind the TV camera risers — you know, …
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Legendary Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday at the age of 87, prompting an outpouring of tributes and condolences from America’s political grandees. The death of a liberal lion on the court in the stretch run of the 2020 election also sparked immediate speculation about whether President …
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Michael Stipe appeared on Late Night to talk Donald Trump, R.E.M. in the Reagan Era and his late friend, Hal Willner. Stipe first traced Trump’s rise to President: “He started as a failed midtown real estate developer, then became a successful reality TV star,” he said. “Now we get this …
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In the years leading up to the creation of one of the defining albums of thrash metal, Megadeth‘s 1990 LP Rust in Peace, the band members were going through hell. Frontman Dave Mustaine and bassist David Ellefson had formed the group in 1983, after Mustaine’s ejection from Metallica, and even …
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Michael Cohen is making the rounds, well, as much as one can make the rounds while under house arrest in Manhattan. His book Disloyalis out today and it’s already lurking near Amazon’s Top Ten based on leaks to the Washington Post and Associated Press. The book details his years as …
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