For Gary Clark Jr., racism was a part of everyday life growing up in Texas. It’s something he rarely spoke about as he became one of the world’s greatest living guitar players, championed by everyone from Eric Clapton to Barack Obama. But the 2016 election and the subsequent policies of …
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When Halestorm won the Grammy for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance in 2013 for “Love Bites (So Do I),” they figured it’d be one and done. The Recording Academy did away with the category the following year, splitting it into two, and Lzzy Hale, the singer-guitarist of the Nashville-based band, feared …
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A new documentary that reexamines the story of Lorena Bobbitt – the woman who infamously cut off her abusive husband’s penis – will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this month before arriving on Amazon February 15th. Filmmaker Joshua Rofé directed the four-part series, while Jordan Peele served as executive …
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While fielding questions from reporters in the Rose Garden last week, President Trump floated the idea of circumventing Congress and using the military to build his long-promise border wall. “We can call a national emergency because of the security,” he said. “I haven’t done it. I may do it. But …
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Neil Young paid tribute to his ex-wife, collaborator and Bridge School co-founder Pegi Young in a post on the rocker’s Archives site. “Thanks Pegi, for being such a wonderful mother to our children,” Neil wrote Saturday, his first public comments since Pegi’s death. “You live inside of them and the …
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Ellen DeGeneres personally called the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and urged them to re-hire Kevin Hart as Oscars host, she revealed on Friday’s Ellen. Hart stepped down from the 2019 gigin December after several of his years-old, homophobic tweets resurfaced online. “I called the Academy today because …
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Lil Tjay sucks his teeth in dissatisfaction. Sitting on a couch at Sony’s Manhattan office, he’s either shy or aggressively uninterested in talking. When he’s asked about the rappers who shaped his style, a slight clanking of his chain is the only noise in the awkward silence that ensues. “A …
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Moments after the new year arrived on the East Coast, Stranger Things revealed the release date of its upcoming third season: July 4th, 2019. Additionally, the Netflix series also unveiled a cryptic four-minute teaser for Season 3, which takes place in the summer of 1985. The video features footage from Dick …
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President Trump invited Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and presumptive House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to the Oval Office on Tuesday to talk about the long-proposed border wall. It didn’t go well. As a wan, mute Mike Pence looked on, Trump, Schumer and Pelosi argued about everything from the …
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Opening with a quote from Chaucer’sCanterbury Talesand rooted in a century of English recorded music, from music hall to the Beatles and beyond,Merrie Land— the second album by the Damon Albarn–led supergroup the Good, the Bad & the Queen — is a meditation on national identity that explores how Britain …
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