Donald Trump is a president made for a time when Americans can no longer embrace one another. It is a strange coincidence that the most divisive and conspicuously bigoted president in decades will be known most for a lethal pandemic that separates us by fiat, preventing physical community in order …
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Tame Impala has shared a remixed version of their recent album, The Slow Rush. Titled The Slow Rush in an Imaginary Place, the new edition has been edited to sound like it’s being played from another room. “I made something for all you isolators out there,” Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker …
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John Prine has been hospitalized since Thursday after suffering from symptoms synonymous with the novel coronavirus. While Prine’s exact medical condition is unclear, “his situation is critical,” his family said in a statement Sunday. “After a sudden onset of COVID-19 symptoms, John was hospitalized on Thursday. He was intubated Saturday …
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At the beginning of the new Netflix documentary Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness, a strip club proprietor tells the camera, “The big cat people are backstabbing pieces of shit.” The statement sounds both like nonsense and hyperbole. By the end of the seven-part series, it turns out to have …
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Southern rockers Blackberry Smoke have set June 19th as the release date for their new EP Live From Capricorn Sound Studios. An homage to the historic Macon, Georgia, recording facilities, which became an epicenter of the Southern Rock genre in the early Seventies, a portion of the proceeds from the …
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Update, March 27th: The U.S. House of Representatives approved the stimulus package Friday, sending it to the president’s desk for final passage. — From songwriters to producers to roadies, individuals in the various corners of the music business will be eligible for federal relief under the coronavirus stimulus package passed …
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The Michael Jackson Estate will donate $300,000 to help three communities that have been impacted by COVID-19. The estate will give $100,000 each to Broadway Cares, Nevada’s Three Square Food Bank and MusiCares. “This virus strikes at the heart of the communities we are close to,” John Branca and John …
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President Trump really wants the coronavirus to go away — not so much because American lives will be saved, but so the economy, and with it his re-election prospects, can rev back up as we head into the meat of 2020. He laid bare his lack of regard for the …
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Happy birthday to Linda Ronstadt’s New Wave album Mad Love, released 40 years ago, in March 1980. It’s the weirdest oddity in her catalog, with three Elvis Costello covers. Mad Love is forgotten by time, written out of her official history. Not even Linda has a kind word for this …
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The Trump Department of Justice has asked Congress to craft legislation allowing chief judges to indefinitely hold people without trial and suspend other constitutionally protected rights during the coronavirus and other emergencies, according to a report by Politico’s Betsy Woodruff Swan. While the asks from the Department of Justice will …
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