Stephen Malkmus has been on quite a creative roll as of late. In 2018, he released Sparkle Hard, one of his best albums to date with his backing band, the Jicks, and last year, he took a detour into synth-pop with Groove Denied. Now, he’s putting out another solo set, …
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Lady Gaga‘s “little monsters” are rarely wrong, and, on Monday, the Oscar winner confirmed that their guesses were right when it comes to her new album title: Chromatica. She will release the album on April 10th, and it’s currently available for preorder. Gaga’s fans first noticed the title in small …
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Candyman It starts with an urban legend: repeat the name Candyman in the mirror five times and he’s summoned – to kill you. When Anthony McCoy (portrayed by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) explains this to his girlfriend Brianna (portrayed by Teyonah Parris), she can’t imagine anyone doing such a thing. Cut …
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While most analysts attributed the Dow plunging more than 1,000 points on Monday to the number of coronavirus cases climbing outside of China, Fox Business host Charles Payne claimed it was the fault of Bernie Sanders’ recent campaign success. This is an easy line for Sanders critics to trot out …
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Breland is not yet a household name, but he and his recently assembled Atlantic Records team are confident that will change quickly. Earlier this month, “My Truck,” the singer-rapper’s country-trap ode to the titular vehicle, reached Number One on Spotify’s Viral 50 chart. His Spotify profile has more than 1.2 …
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In the second episode of Amazon’s pulpy new drama Hunters, a team of anti-Nazi vigilantes, led by concentration camp survivor Meyer Hoffman (Al Pacino), confronts a former concentration camp commander who now lives a posh life in late-Seventies America. Hoffman’s group surrounds the Nazi and reads testimonials of the many …
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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit have announced their sixth album, Reunions. The Americana singer-songwriter previews the upcoming LP with the new song “Be Afraid.” A jangly slice of low-fi indie rock, the song is a call to action for artists to use their voices to inspire or enact change …
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David Bowie’s unreleased Earthling-era semi-instrumental “Nuts” is the latest installment in the Is It Any Wonder? series, a six-week unearthing of rare tracks that the late icon recorded in 1996 and 1997. “Nuts” was recorded at the same November 1996 studio sessions that yielded Earthling’s “The Last Thing You Should …
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Huge congratulations to Kansas ’— uh, we mean, Missouri’s — Kansas City Chiefs! But despite taking home their first Super Bowl trophy in a half century, the real winner was us, the viewers, because we all know that the best thing about the Big Game is always the commercials (and …
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We are born, we live, and we die. Before we can get on that particular merry-go-round, however, we must first be interviewed. The interrogator is tall, quiet, fastidious, well-dressed. Small granny spectacles perch on his nose as he asks questions of those who sit before him. And when he’s not …
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