With hours to go, the music business is closing out 2019 with big news: Universal Music Group, the biggest record company in the world, has sold a 10% stake — with a possibility of 10% more — to a consortium led by Chinese tech and entertainment giant Tencent. The $3.3 …
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The release of Travis Scott‘s posse album JACKBOYS was marketed as an event. Harmony Korine shot the album cover. Scott hyped the release on his Instagram and Twitter with limited edition merch — guaranteeing attention from a large corner of the internet. There were cryptic videos of the Cactus Jack …
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WASHINGTON — “This is going to be a shitshow,” said the congressional reporter. “Yes, it is,” said another. It was Wednesday morning, and members of the Capitol Hill press corps were assessing what to expect over the next 10 hours leading up to the vote to impeach President Trump. Not …
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For its last cold open of 2019 — and the first since Donald Trump’s impeachment — Saturday Night Live once again corralled its all-star cast of Democratic presidential nominees as well as Alec Baldwin’s President Trump, who invades the latest Democratic debate. This week’s combatants included Elizabeth Warren (Kate McKinnon), …
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Willie Nelson, his sons Micah and Lukas, plus Jakob Dylan, Dhani Harrison and Amos Lee have teamed for an all-star cover of Tom Petty’s “For Real.” Petty originally recorded “For Real” in August 2000, but the song wasn’t released until this past February when it appeared on the posthumous retrospective, …
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In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, and the subsequent Anthrax attacks, America was on edge. Terrorists had breached the boarder — were they going to do it again? In October 2002, when a man in Washington, D.C., was shot in a grocery store parking lot, and five more seemingly …
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So, How Was Your Decadeis a series in which the decade’s most innovative musicians answer our questionnaire about the music, culture, and memorable moments that shaped their decade. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. Early in the 2010s, rock & roll revivalists Low Cut Connie were a band …
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DJ Khaled hypes up football fans for Super Bowl LIV in Miami with a new teaser clip ahead of the Monday Night Football game on ESPN between the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts. Khaled was born in New Orleans but is based in Miami, so he celebrates his two …
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There’s a new “creep” in town in the trailer forYou Season 2, premiering December 26th on Netflix. Season 1 left off with protagonist and stalker Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) having a run-in with his long-lost ex-girlfriend Candace (Ambyr Childers), who’s hell-bent on teaching him a lesson. Now on the run …
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On December 10, 2015, Wheaton College professor Larycia Hawkins logged onto Facebook and unwittingly made a post that would explode her life. It was just days after a married couple inspired by jihadist ideology had committed the San Bernardino massacre, and figures like Donald Trump, Jerry Falwell, Jr., and Ted …
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