On an alternate version of Earth in which a pandemic is not raging around the country, the Doobie Brothers, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode and family members of Whitney Houston, The Notorious B.I.G. and T-Rex’s Marc Bolan gathered at Cleveland’s Public Hall on May 2nd for an incredible evening of …
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Stephen Colbert postponed his usualLate Show monologue on Thursday night to deliver an emotional speech aimed at President Donald Trump, who tried to claim victory over the 2020 election that evening in a White House press conference. “True story: I’m wearing black tonight because I was getting dressed this afternoon …
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CL has never been shy about speaking her mind, and on her bratty, super-catchy new single, “HWA” (stylized as “+H₩A+”), the Korean rapper hits back at the “haters” while making her welcome return to the global stage. Co-written with Jean-Baptiste (Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Little Mix) and Tokki, with production from …
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UPDATE (11/3): Holden Matthews was sentenced to 25 years in prison, plus three years of supervised released after pleading guilty to burning several historically black churches in Louisiana. Matthews was also ordered to pay $2.6 million to three churches in restitution, $590,246 to St. Mary Baptist Church, $970,213.30 to Greater …
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With President Donald Trump closing out his 2020 campaign by dismissing the seriousness of Covid-19, John Oliver looked back at his handling of the pandemic on Last Week Tonight, Sunday, November 1st. Trump — and some of his supporters — have claimed he’s done the best he could with the …
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Meet Oliver (Azhy Robertson). He’s eight years old or so, and is somewhere on the Autism spectrum. He loves SpongeBob Squarepants. Oliver doesn’t talk, though his speech therapist thinks he’s making some progress; he uses a sort of modern speak-and-spell app on his phone to communicate. His mom, Sarah (Gillian …
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Rolling Stone contributing editor Jeff Goodell spoke with Dr. Anthony Fauci via Zoom this week ahead of Election Day to discuss the ongoing coronavirus pandemic caused by SARS CoV-2 and the disease Covid-19. The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has been sidelined by President Trump, …
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In Part Two of our Ludwig Göransson interview for The Breakdown, theTenet composer explains how Travis Scott’s inclusion in the film came at the last minute: As Göransson and director Christopher Nolan were deciding how to approach Tenet‘s end credits theme, the Houston rapper came into Göransson’s mind. “His voice …
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This month marks the 20th anniversary of U2‘s comeback record All That You Can’t Leave Behind. Released exactly 20 years after their debut LP Boy, this is the album that landed the band back on MTV and Top 40 radio after the commercially underwhelming (but criminally underrated) Pop in 1997. …
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Billy Joe Shaver, the outlaw-country music pioneer who wrote some of the genre’s greatest songs, died Wednesday in Waco, Texas, after suffering a stroke. He was 81. Connie Nelson, a friend of Shaver’s, confirmed his death to Rolling Stone. Shaver’s hard-lived career classics included “Honky Tonk Heroes,” “Georgia on a …
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