Jehnny Beth, the Savages frontwoman, has marked the release of her solo debut, To Love Is to Live, with a surrealistic video for the dusky track, “We Will Sin Together,” which contains the album’s titular line: “To love is to live/to live is to sin.” To illustrate this, the clip …
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In 1988, reality-TV producer John Langley was plotting out his next show. A few years earlier, his first foray into the then-nascent genre, American Vice: The Doping of a Nation, had brought live drug arrests to prime time. He had the basic premise for a follow-up — follow police officers …
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The roots-music duo Shovels & Rope will release a deluxe edition of their latest album By Blood in August, fleshed out with new acoustic recordings of five songs from the LP. On Wednesday, the band consisting of Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent previewed the stripped-down recordings with the premiere …
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The members of the cult classic MTV sketch show The State will host a reunion on Zoom to raise money for the California Immigrant Resilience Fund and the NAACP. The event — dubbed “Zoom With The State” — will take place Wednesday, June 10th, at 9 p.m. ET. Per a …
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In honor of would have been Prince‘s birthday Sunday — and protests around the country over the police killing of George Floyd — the Prince estate released a new lyric video for “Baltimore.” Prince dropped the song in 2015 in response to the death of Baltimore’s Freddie Gray, who died …
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There should be special place in movie hell for lazy filmmakers who get off showing adults terrorizing children and animals. Is there an easier or cheaper way to jolt an audience? That’s a rhetorical question. Becky, available on demand and at a drive-in near you starting June 5th, is too …
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The Walt Disney Company will donate $5 million to causes and organizations fighting for social justice, Variety reports. With the announcement of the pledge, Disney said $2 million of the $5 million would be donated to the NAACP, while it’s unclear at the moment where the rest of the $3 …
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UPDATE (6/8):Nine members of the Minneapolis City Council pledged Sunday to dismantle the police department in hopes of creating a new system. City Council controls the budget for the police, but Mayor Jacob Frey does have the power to veto their decisions. Still, Council members said they had enough votes …
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The founder of distribution and artist tools platform Stem, Milana Rabkin Lewis, made a fun suggestion on Twitter last week — an industry book club entirely focused on IPO filings, with Warner Music Group‘s S1/A as the first assignment. Warner’s S1/A is the dense, 190-pages-plus SEC filing that just officially …
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On May 25th, George Floyd died after being continuously and repeatedly choked by a Minneapolis police officer. The cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have risen up in protest in the days since Floyd’s death, which came less than four years after a Twin Cities police officer killed Philando Castile …
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