You know how it can be with overwhelming topics like global warming and crushing poverty. Sometimes you want to acknowledge and confront them, and other times you want to run in the other direction given how weighty and fraught it can all be. That dynamic played out at the New …
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Pearl Jam performed a handful of songs from their latest LP Gigaton live for the first time and paid tribute to Bruce Springsteen and Charlie Watts Saturday during the band’s headlining set at Asbury Park, New Jersey’s Sea.Hear.Now Festival, a gig that also marked Pearl Jam’s first concert in over …
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Earlier this week, Rick Astley — a much less dour crooner from the north of England than Morrissey — performed a spritely and unexpected cover of the Smiths’ “This Charming Man” at a show in London. A few days later, the magic of the internet brought the clip to the …
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What was expected to be a roaring summer comeback for live music has turned into a season of precarious doubt, thanks to vaccine hesitancy and the delta spread of Covid-19. And a financial tech company is giving would-be concertgoers a chance to cash in on the uncertainty. Kalshi, a startup, …
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Dua Lipa will head out on her highly anticipated headlining tour next year. Lipa’s sophomore album Future Nostalgia was released in March 2020 and became one of the year’s biggest releases. The tour will span 28 dates across the US and Canada, including Lipa’s first headlining show at Madison Square …
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The Many Saints of Newark, the Sopranos prequel film premiering October 1st (in theaters and on HBO Max), was designed to make sense to fans of the series as well as those who’ve never seen a single frame. But given that The Sopranos is one of the greatest and most …
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Bob Odenkirk has returned to AMC’s Better Call Saul following what he described as “a small heart attack,” which led to his hospitalization in late July. The show is in production for its sixth and final season. On Wednesday, the actor shared an update on Twitter along with a photo …
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Ava DuVernay penned a heartfelt tribute to late actor Michael K. Williams on Instagram Monday. Williams starred in the 2019 Netflix crime drama miniseries When They See Us, which DuVernay co-wrote and directed, and the pair had mutual admiration and respect for one another. In a 2020 video conversation with …
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When the coronavirus shut down the world down last year, two things gave Bruce Dickinson some peace of mind: Iron Maiden had finished recording their upcoming 17th album, Senjutsu, in 2019, and he could quarantine with “somebody I actually like,” his girlfriend. It all went pretty well for a little …
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Near the end of Guided by Voices‘ beer-drenched, 60-song-plus set at Columbus, Ohio’s Athenaeum Theatre Saturday night, frontman Robert Pollard mused to the audience: “I was born on the stage. I was squirted out on the stage…” The crowd — a motley crew of locals and super-fans who had crossed …
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