The Late Show host Stephen Colbert couldn’t contain his fandom as The Mountain Goats appeared on the late night show to perform their classic 2005 track “This Year.” Colbert leapt onstage during the rendition to sing along with frontman John Darnielle, giving an impassioned performance of the tune. The band, …
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President Trump has spent the past two days hurling racist attacks against a group of congresswomen of color who have criticized his immigration policy. He’s suggested they go back to the countries “from which they came,” and accused them of hating the United States “with a passion.” He punctuated nearly …
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A power outage affected a vast portion of Manhattan Saturday night, causing nearly all of the evening’s Broadway shows to cancel their performances. However, the cast of some of the musicals ensured theatergoers’ plans weren’t completely ruined by the blackout by providing impromptu street performances outside their respective theaters. The …
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Sheryl Crow is no stranger to covering Bob Dylan, having released her versions of Dylan songs like “Mississippi” and “Tombstone Blues” on past albums. She continues the trend on her upcoming LP Threads, offering a chugging rendition of Dylan’s “Everything Is Broken.” On Threads, she recasts the song as a …
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Bon Iver shared two new songs, “Faith” and “Jelmore,” both of which will appear on the group’s upcoming album, i, i, out August 30th via Jagjaguwar. The two tracks vary in approach but both hit upon that ethereal, infinite feeling that’s become a hallmark of Bon Iver’s music over the …
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Ed Sheeran and YEBBA took over London’s Abbey Road Studios for a new live music video for their collaborative track “Best Part of Me.” The video, recorded in black and white and directed by Dan Massie, reveals the duo performing the song in an empty studio space with Sheeran on …
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Devonté Hynes will release a new Blood Orange mixtape, Angel’s Pulse, on July 12th via Domino. In a statement, the singer-songwriter described the set — which he performed, produced and mixed in full — as “somewhat of an epilogue” to his fourth and most recent LP, 2018’s Negro Swan. Hynes …
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Before departing for his 202nd day in office spent at one of his golf clubs, President Donald Trump openly admitted that the reason he wants to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census is to discriminate against non-citizens by not counting them when drawing Congressional districts. This would be …
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Bruce Linton, founder and co-CEO of the massive Canadian cannabis conglomerate Canopy Growth, said he was fired from the company after it announced his exit Wednesday, CNBC reports. Canopy Growth announced the leadership change in a press release that suggested the split was somewhat amicable, writing that “Bruce will step …
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“I’ve been trying to un-fall apart,” the country trio Runaway June sang on their 2018 breakthrough single “Buy My Own Drinks,” an ode tobroken-heart dive-bar hopping.“and I’ve been thinking that some neon lights would be a real good start.” One year later, the group flips the script on “I Know …
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