Born 84 years ago today in Tupelo, Mississippi, Elvis Presley transfixed millions of fans (and outraged many others) with his rock & roll swagger before most of them had any idea what rock & roll was or would become in popular culture. His incendiary stage presence notwithstanding, Presley’s Southern roots …
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In 2006, four years after Waylon Jennings‘ death, New West Records released a live album featuring the outlaw legend’s April 1st, 1989 appearance on the long-running PBS music series Austin City Limits. Jennings was himself at a personal crossroads in early ’89 — having already battled his addiction to cocaine, …
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is not your typical member of Congress. After just a few days in office, she is already exchanging barbs with the Republican leadership and pundits on social media, defending herself against their criticisms. It started with a dance. Conservatives began circulating a video of Ocasio-Cortez dancing …
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Backstreet Boys celebrate domesticity in their homespun video for new single “No Place.” The breezy cut appears on the vocal group’s upcoming 10th LP, DNA, out January 25th. Throughout the clip, each of the band’s five members –AJ McLean, Howie Dorough, Nick Carter, Kevin Richardson, and Brian Littrell – hang …
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Queen guitarist Brian May released a new song on New Year’s Eve to mark the voyage of the New Horizons space probe as it passed by the trans-Neptunian object Ultima Thule. It’s the farthest object in the solar system that a spacecraft has visited, and it took 12 years to …
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Independent Chicago rapper Noname kicked off the new year by unveiling her first new song of 2019, “Song 31.” It’s also her first new music since releasing Room 25, named one of Rolling Stone‘s Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2018. Over winsome, jazz-tipped melodies, the rapper poetically rhymes about the drive …
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Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason and Dunkirk director Christopher Nolan were among the more than 1,100 people recognized on Queen Elizabeth’s New Year’s Honours list, which annuallyhonors “the achievements and service of extraordinary people across the United Kingdom.” Mason, the lone Pink Floyd member to appear on every one of …
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Black Mirror previewed its upcoming stand-alone movie, Bandersnatch, with an ominous new trailer. The “event” film, which debuts Friday, December 28th on Netflix, follows a young programmer named Stefan (Dunkirk‘s Fionn Whitehead) who plummets down a surreal rabbit hole while attempting to create a computer game based on a classic …
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On Saturday,Brett McGurk,special presidential envoy to the coalition fighting ISIS, resigned in response to President Donald Trump‘s decision to withdraw troops from Syria. He follows Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who resigned earlier in the week, citing the same reason. McGurk was originally planning to leave the administration in early 2019, …
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Lin-Manuel Miranda is marking the final installment of his Hamildrop series with a remake of Hamilton‘s “One Last Time” and he’s brought out some massive guests, including former president Barack Obama and actor Christopher Jackson with production from gospel great BeBe Winans and Alex Lacamoire. Aptly named the “44 Remix” …
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