The Spice Girls kicked off their long-awaited Spiceworld reunion tour in Dublin Friday night, reuniting onstage for the first time in seven years. For the show at Croke Park, members Emma Bunton (Baby Spice), Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice), Melanie Brown (Scary Spice) and Melanie Chisholm (Sporty Spice) performed a slew …
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Five years ago, Walshy Fire, the Jamaican producer known for the global-club-mishmashes he makes with the group Major Lazer, funded his own solo tour of Africa. In Kenya at one point, “the driver had fallen asleep and nobody could find him,” Walshy Fire recalls. “When they finally saw him, the …
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Weezer‘s Scott Shriner, Fall Out Boy‘s Pete Wentz and songwriter-producer Butch Walker open up about their youthful struggles with anxiety in a new video for the Child Mind Institute’s 2019 #MyYoungerSelf social media campaign. In a clip featuring the full band, Shriner reflected on his childhood self as “super sick, …
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On the latest cover of Rolling Stone, Howard Stern poses with two black foster kittens named Trick and Treat. They were brought to the photoshoot by his wife Beth, who fosters cats in partnership with North Shore Animal League America. It was Stern’s idea to have her husband hold the …
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Listen to an audio version of this story here: One fateful night last fall in Malibu, Kevin Parker was stoned and tipsy in an ocean-view rental house, writing music and marveling at the ferocious Santa Ana winds. “It was apocalyptically windy,” he says. “I couldn’t even stand outside to smoke …
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Listen to an audio version of this story below: On a sleepy Monday morning at the horse stables in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park, Lil Nas X has got exactly one horse in the back. Nas — real name Montero Hill — is the 20-year-old rapper and internet savant behind the …
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Okay, sure — an EDM remix of Van Halen‘s synth-rock classic “Jump” sounds pretty horrendous in theory. Hear me out, though! Dutch trance god Armin van Buuren‘s sleek, rave-ready revamp of the 1983 hit is an absolute winner. We can only hope it leads to more glowstick-ready remixes of classic …
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Ciara recently dropped her new album, Beauty Marks, and appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote the release with a performance of her upbeat single “Thinkin Bout You.” The singer, clad in a red TBY-branded jumpsuit, went with a full production on Kimmel’s outdoor stage, complete with a set of …
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In October 2008, an angry Ringo Starr took to his website to warn fans to stop sending him objects through the mail to autograph. “Nothing will be signed after the 20th of October!” he said in the bizarre video. “If that has a date on the envelope, it’s going to …
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Related: Taibbi on Lessons Learned from Eric Garner Case Five years ago this July, a 43-year-old father and small-time street dealer, Eric Garner, was killed in explosion of unnecessary violence. Police officer Daniel Pantaleo, while an onlooker filmed his every move, wrapped an arm around Garner’s neck and squeezed until …
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