Pearl Jam took a yearlong break after the Binaural tour, reconvening early in 2002 to record their seventh album, Riot Act. Joining them at Studio X in Seattle were some new faces: producer Adam Kasper, who had worked with Matt Cameron’s bands Soundgarden and Wellwater Conspiracy, and keyboardist Kenneth “Boom” …
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Twitter announced Thursday that it is choosing to suspend its verification program altogether after it came under fire for verifying known white nationalist Jason Kressler earlier this week. On Tuesday, Kressler, who organized the deadly alt-right rally in Charlottesville this past summer, proudly tweeted about receiving the coveted blue checkmark. …
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A Bee Gees musical is in the works, with Universal Theatrical Group securing rights to the legendary band’s life story and music. Singer Barry Gibb, the group’s only surviving member, will executive produce the as-yet-untitled project. UTG, Universal’s live theater division, secured rights to the musical with Barry Gibb, Yvonne …
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“I’m not pregnant by Leonardo DiCaprio yet, but who knows what could happen?” Tiffany Haddish asks in a way that makes it hard to tell if she’s joking. And, truth be told, she probably isn’t. Thus far, the 38-year-old comedian has manifested most of the other items on a wish …
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Greta Gerwig remembers the “Eureka!” moment. The 34-year-old actor, an indie-cinema fixture and a co-writer for films like Frances Ha and Mistress America, had been struggling with a screenplay she’d been working on for a while, a story about a young woman coming of age in Northern California. For some …
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A stretch of highway in Northern California has been officially renamed in honor of Merle Haggard, an artist who became synonymous with songs about life on the road. The Interstate 5 and Highway 44 interchange in Redding, California, is now known as the Merle Haggard Memorial Overpass. The location is …
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When Jason Isbell‘s The Nashville Soundwas presented with an Album of the Year nomination at the upcoming CMA Awards, no one was more surprised than Isbell himself. After all, the Alabama native and former Drive-By Trucker recently mentioned to Men’s Journal that he doesn’t consider himself a country singer. He …
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Foo Fighters’ singerDave GrohlrecruitedKristen Bellon Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! to perform a bizarre Halloween mash-up of Metallica‘s classic “Enter Sandman” and Frozen ballad “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?” Grohl, guest-hosting the show for an absent Jimmy Kimmel, initiated the cover while interviewing Bell. The rocker, wearing a shockingly …
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On a rainy day earlier this summer, Aaron Lee Tasjan and Lilly Hiatt found themselves back home in Nashville, swapping harmonies during a poignant, folky cover of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ “Walls.” “This was a special day,” remembers Hiatt. “Aaron and I got together this past summer at John …
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For the first 26 years of her life, Charlotte Flair was never interested in professional wrestling despite her father, Ric Flair, being the most decorated world heavyweight champion in the history of the business. Five years after accepting a WWE developmental contract, Charlotte is already on her own track to …
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