Billie Eilish will join the ranks of Madonna, Wings, Tina Turner, and Adele as the latest artist to record a James Bond theme song. She is also the youngest artist in history to do so. The official account for the James Bond franchise announced the song on Tuesday morning. EIlish …
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Patti Smith performed a spare and tender cover of Neil Young’s “After the Gold Rush” on The Tonight Show Thursday. Smith opened the performance with a short poem, in which she enumerated the chaos engulfing the world, while still ending on a hopeful note: “Yet I still keep thinking that/Something …
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Elizabeth Wurtzel — author of the best-selling memoir Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America — died in a New York City hospital on Tuesday, according to the New York Times. She was 52 years old. Wurtzel’s husband Jim Freed cited the cause of death as complications from leptomeningeal disease, …
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The Strokes kicked off 2020 with a brand new song, which the New York band performed during a show in Brooklyn on New Year’s Eve. The track, which is titled “Ode to the Mets,” according to Stereogum, is apparently on an upcoming new album due out this year. Frontman Julian …
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In May, Miley Cyrus promised three new EPs, but she hit some road blocks after releasing the first one. Three months later, she announced her divorce from longtime partner Liam Hemsworth and underwent vocal surgery last month. Now, it seems she’s setting her sights on a new endeavor: a project …
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First off, Apple says, this isn’t an awards show. It’s not a concert, either; it’s much more than “just a concert,” much different from “anything you’ve ever seen before,” much less possible to describe. For one evening, the tech company has turned its campus into a public music venue to …
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Beck effortlessly rolled through a string of Prince’s biggest hits in the new video for “The Paisley Experience,” recorded at the late musician’s Paisley Park Studios. “The Paisley Experience” experience appears on Beck’s new three-track EP, Paisley Park Sessions, released last week exclusively via Amazon Music. The performance finds Beck …
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“Read the transcript!” has been a mantra of President Donald Trump ever since he released a summary of his call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky over allegations he withheld aid to the nation unless its president agreed to manufacture dirt on the son of his political rival, Joe Biden. But, …
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It always began and ended with the shoes. Specifically, the 1,220 pairs of pumps that were found in the closet of Imelda Marcos, when she and her husband Ferdinand Marcos were forced to flee the country in 1986. It made the Philippines’ former First Lady the punchline of late-night talk …
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Jay Inslee is no Greta Thunberg. The 68-year-old governor of Washington state is a founding father of the climate movement, a man who speaks with the wonky wisdom of experience, not the moral outrage of a 16-year-old girl who sees her future stolen by greedy and corrupt politicians. And whereas …
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