Fifty years ago this week, Simon and Garfunkel released Bridge Over Troubled Water. It was not only their most successful album — selling millions of copies and earning them six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year — but it was also their final LP. They reformed several times over …
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Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard explained how the group’s upcoming album, Gigaton, captures “the spirit of the band” in a new interview with Zane Lowe on Beats 1 radio. The first single from Gigaton, “Dance of the Clairvoyants,” found the band exploring funkier and more experimental sonic territories, with Gossard …
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Birds of Prey (And the Fabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) Margot Robbie returns as Harley Quinn. This time, she’s broken up with her ex-boyfriend the Joker, and even though she claims she’s back on her feet, her junk food binge says otherwise. Her pity party comes to a halt …
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Mac Miller‘s posthumous album, Circles — which was meant to be a companion to what turned out to be his final LP, Swimming —will be released January 17th, according to a note from Miller’s family on the late rapper’s Instagram. Miller was working on Circles at the time of his …
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Netflix announced Monday (with a very cheeky poster — see below) that the six-episode series on Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle brand Goop will be released January 24th on the platform. The Goop Lab will behosted by Paltrow and Goop Chief Content Officer Elise Loehnen. In the accompanying trailer, Paltrow consults health …
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A planned TV show for CBS about the 2016 Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland, California, has been scrapped after members of the Bay Area arts community expressed their outrage and reservations over the project. The show was announced last week as part of a new deal between CBS and …
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“Being in Queen now feels like the old times because it has become as big as the old times,” Brian May told Rolling Stone in 2017. The band was still a year out from the release of Bohemian Rhapsody, the biopic that would raise its pop-cultural capital even further. But …
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Billy Joel rattling off historic names and events most people under 30 have never heard of hardly seemed like the formula for a hit song, especially in 1989 when the charts were dominated by the likes of Poison, Paula Abdul, Janet Jackson, Debbie Gibson, and New Kids on the Block. …
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The House Intelligence Committee has released a scathing report that lays out the case for the impeachment of Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States. The document, released Tuesday, lays out stark misbehavior by the president. The committee is controlled by the Democratic majority and recaps the …
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In The Report, Adam Driver plays Daniel Jones, a real-life Senate staffer who spent years working in a basement office on a 7,000-page Senate Intelligence Committee report concluding that the CIA’s post-9/11 use of torture in interrogations was not only inhumane but entirely ineffective — only to discover powerful forces …
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