The Raconteurs took the stage at The Tonight Show to offer a rousing version of their song “Shine the Light on Me.” The digital-only performance, which did not air on TV, featured the band giving the bluesy, piano-based track their all. The song, which comes off the band’s recent album …
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The state of Florida has dropped a felony battery charge against Chris Brown stemming from an April 2017 incident at a Tampa nightclub, the Tampa Bay Times reports. Brown was accused of sucker-punching the club’s in-house photographer, who was reportedly taking pictures of the singer, even though he’d been warned …
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Next month, John Coltrane‘s label, Impulse!/Ume, will release Blue World, a new album by the legendary saxophonist. Recorded in 1964 and largely unreleased until now, the 37-minute session was intended as a soundtrack for Le chat dans le sac (“The Cat in the Bag”), a film by the Quebecois director …
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Teyana Taylor pays tribute to innovative music video director Hype Williams in her new visual for “HYWI?”, her latest single featuring the rapper King Combs. The video, directed by Taylor herself (credited as Teyana “Spike Tee” Taylor), references the hip-hop and R&B videos of the late Nineties and early aughts, …
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On Tuesday, shortly after being announced as an official selection for the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, the first trailer for Taika Waititi‘s new film JoJo Rabbit was released. The movie hits theaters October 18th. Described as a “World War II satire,” the film follows JoJo (Roman Griffin Davis, in …
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Ed Sheeran‘s new album, No.6 Collaborations Project, feels like a game of musical Mad Libs. 22 guest vocalists are spread, seemingly at random, across 15 tracks that riff through styles — lead-footed southern rock and featherweight acoustic balladry, lithe R&B and a clumsy homage to Aftermath Entertainment, Latin pop and …
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The nightmare that is America’s reality show president naturally brings with him a Fox News TV character/national security advisor. Yep, Fox News’ own Tucker Carlson accompanied President Donald Trump on his trip to North Korea to meet with the tyrant Kim Jong-un. And, Trump left behind his actual national security …
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Tonight, President Trump officially kicks off his 2020 re-election campaign with a rally in Orlando. It’s sure to be a raucous event, with not a word – or not a serious word, anyway – about the biggest challenge of our time: climate change. Few places in America have more at …
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M.I.A. was among the artists recognized for their “services to music” by the annual Queen’s Birthday Honours List and, like fellow honoree Elvis Costello, the rapper will accept the honor thanks in part to her mother. On Saturday, the rapper born Mathangi Arulpragasam, the daughter of Sri Lankan Tamils, received …
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R&B is wallowing in its past: It feels like nearly every commercially successful R&B single at the moment is built on a prominent sample or a conspicuous interpolation of an old hit. It’s not the act of sampling itself that’s troubling. The sampler is one of the more extraordinary inventions …
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