Hiss Golden Messenger — the eclectic Durham, North Carolina, Americana outfit — have released the new song “Happy Birthday, Baby” a month before the release of their seventh studio album, Terms of Surrender. The group’s leader and creative mastermind M.C. Taylor wrote the track, which features a nursery rhyme-like counting …
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Top campaign staffers for Bernie Sanders held a press call Monday, and the message was positive. The senator, they said, is doing well and won the last debate. And polls show, they added, that the country cares about his favored issues, particularly health care. But that’s not always, his staff …
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It’s hard to fathom when Hayley Kiyoko rests. Between working on the follow-up to 2018’s Expectations and directing the video for her new single “I Wish,” the multi-hyphenate star also found time to star in Taylor Swift’s “You Need to Calm Down” video. During an interview at Rolling Stone‘s “Morning …
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The president is sounding like a changed man on gun regulations in the aftermath of the trio of mass shootings in Gilroy, El Paso and Dayton. On the south lawn of the White House on Friday, Trump insisted. “We have tremendous support for common sense background checks.” “I think we …
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Katy Perry laments the conflicting feelings that come post-breakup, when love and intimacy fades and emotional distance pervades in her new song, “Small Talk.” It’s the second single the singer has unveiled in 2019, following the release of “Never Really Over.” Co-written by Perry, Johan Carlsson, Charlie Puth and Jacob …
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Big Sean performed his latest song “Single Again” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night, incorporating a “speed dating” scenario onstage. The rapper came out dressed in a jacket with name tag on it, and during the performance he sat down at two rose-covered tables with prospective partners …
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Author Garth Stein fired a literary agent who rejected his idea of creating an entire novel from the perspective of a dog. After said novel, The Art of Racing in the Rain, spent 156 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list following its 2008 debut, Stein had the last …
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In the wake of two mass shootings in less than 24 hours in the United States over the weekend, one in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, late-night hosts Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel discussed the tragedies and called out both President Trump for his misplaced reactions and Mitch McConnell …
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Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling, two prominent former cast members of the hit series Beverly Hills, 90210, have announced a new live talk show tour, “Jennie Garth & Tori Spelling Live: A Night to Remember.” The two actresses, who played Kelly Taylor and Donna Martin on the show, will visit …
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“I was 15 when I first felt loneliness/Cut my hair, only listened to Loveless,” sings Clairo on “White Flag.” Who can’t relate? My Bloody Valentine’s ur-shoegaze landmark — a deep sonic cave that remains one of the best hiding-from-the-world listening experiences ever — is a fitting namecheck on this beautiful …
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