Clive Davis remembered Aretha Franklin as “the ultimate natural woman,” a “singer’s singer” and a “musician’s musician” at the Queen of Soul’s star-studded funeral in Detroit on Friday. Davis worked closely with Franklin for more than 30 years and had a hand in many of her late-career successes. “When I …
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We all know Attorney General Jeff Sessions hates marijuana, but it seems he has senior allies within the White House itself who are directing federal agencies to help them vigorously fight against state efforts to legalize marijuana — putting a number of senior administration officials in direct odds with President …
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Nazis — remember when they were largely a thing of the past? As Chris Weitz’s true-life thriller reminds us, long before there was an unfortunate smattering of irresponsible “The Nazi Next Door” articles clogging up your Twitter feed, there were literal Gestapo bigwigs and German war criminals living, secretly but …
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Brian Bumbery, publicist for major artists like Metallica, Madonna, Chris Cornell and Green Day, will leave his own public relations firm, BB Gun Press in September to accept the position as Director at Apple Music Publicity, Variety reports. The company will continue under the helm of Luke Burland, who worked …
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Jason Isbell‘s “Last of My Kind” receives a gorgeous, extended treatment as the latest track to be revealed from the Alabama singer-songwriter’s upcoming LP with the 400 Unit, Live From the Ryman. Recorded last October during a six-night stand at the legendary Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, “Last of My …
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Joseph DeAngelo, the 72-year-old former police officer accused of being the long-sought “Golden State Killer,” was arraigned in a Sacramento court on Thursday on 13 new rape-related charges . DeAngelo was arrested in late April after evading investigators for more than 40 years, thanks to new familial DNA technology and …
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Few sounds in popular music are as instantly familiar and welcoming as that of Willie Nelson‘s guitar. His offbeat picking style is the first thing one can hear on Nelson’s new recording of “Old Friends” with Kris Kristofferson and Merle Haggard, to be featured on the upcoming Roger Miller tribute …
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Solving the case of a missing teen solely through the latest technology. It sounds like a gimmick that’s impossible to sustain over 90-plus minutes (remember 2015’s Unfriended?). But director Aneesh Chaganty, in an exceptional feature debut, does the impossible, building a high-voltage, white-knuckle thriller told almost exclusively through smartphones, laptop …
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On a humid summer afternoon in New Jersey, several thousand people are screaming their hearts out in a language they don’t speak. American devotees of Korean pop music have taken over Newark’s Prudential Center for the weekend; in the parking lot, the crowd sings along to a series of Korean-pop …
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Nicki Minaj‘s Queen andTravis Scott‘s Astroworldwere projected to be in a close race for Number One album, but it didn’t pan out that way. Scott’s albumbeat Minaj’s by 20,000 album-equivalent units, which, in chart-nerd parlance is not exactly “close.” And Minaj did not take kindly to the numbers. “I put …
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