Joseph Heller’s 1961 novel Catch-22 is one of the greatest anti-war satires ever written. With their six-part Hulu miniseries adaptation, George Clooney and Grant Heslov have nailed the anti-war part. The satire? Well, that’s the catch. Clooney and Heslov executive-produced this new version, with each directing a pair of episodes …
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Travis Scott, Billie Eilish, Vampire Weekend and Panic! at the Disco headline the 2019 Music Midtown festival, invading Atlanta‘s Piedmont Park on September 14th and 15th. Lizzo, Charlie Puth, Lord Huron, Tash Sultana, Kali Uchis, Walk The Moon, Quinn XCII, Banks, Local Natives, MØ, Jaden Smith and Sigrid are also …
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The Counting Crows aren’t touring this year beyond a handful of festival dates, but frontman Adam Duritz is keeping busy by co-hosting the podcast Underwater Sunshine with his buddy James Campion. Here are five songs he played on it recently that really blew his mind. Sunflower Bean, ”Come for Me” …
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Everyone always focused on Charlie, the cult leader, the “Helter Skelter” Svengali, the failed musician who had to settle for becoming one of history’s most famous modern representations of human evil. People wrote about him, or they wrote about “the family” as a single unit — the spokes that emanated …
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Peter Frampton has shared his rendition of B.B. King‘s classic “The Thrill Is Gone,” one of blues staples the guitarist tackles on his upcoming covers LP All Blues. The Peter Frampton Band’s faithful cover of “The Thrill Is Gone” features renowned slide guitarist Sonny Landreth and features a trio of …
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A vigil for school shooting victim Kendrick Castillo, who died while trying to stop two gunmen from STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado, broke out into cries of protest when high school students accused some speakers at the vigil of exploiting their grief for political ends. On Wednesday evening, nearly …
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Earlier this spring, Mac DeMarco found himself at the center of an uncharacteristically heated online debate. He’d just announced his fourth studio album,Here Comes the Cowboy, and released its lead single, “Nobody” —setting off alarm bells for some fans of Mitski, another acclaimed singer-songwriter who released a great album calledBe …
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While sea level rise may be the most talked-about adverse effect of climate change, there is virtually no aspect of life on Earth that isn’t under threat from global temperature rise — including life on Earth itself. The United Nations recently released a summary of a report written by 400 …
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Some scientists fear a third of the polar bears in the world may be gone by 2030 due to climate change and how it will affect future sea conditions. To show how the species is struggling to survive as they search for food, National Geographic captured a moment where a …
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Adam Sandler returned to Saturday Night Live with a monologue song that both revisited some of his classic SNL characters and poked fun at his firing from the show. Sandler’s return as host comes nearly 24 years after he was booted from SNL; he first spoke about the great times …
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