Following a testy interview, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dropped F-bombs at an interviewer and also questioned her knowledge about the region she was asking him about. NPR National Security Reporter Mary Louise Kelly pressed Pompeo on Friday about whether he owed the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, …
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Coming out of a decade of upheaval, the music business has never been such a challenging — or thrilling — place to work. What does a career in music look like in 2020? How do decision makers balance the traditional philosophies of their industry with new responsibilities, the endless flood …
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Although Metallica were the most outspoken about the dangers of file-sharing with the advent of Napster — garnering a lot of bad press for allegedly wanting to sue their fans — Kirk Hammett now says the group had no effect on the outcome of the crisis. “We didn’t make a …
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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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A review of the Watchmen finale, “See How They Fly,” coming up just as soon as I impersonate myself at birthday parties… Near the end of Watchmen the comic, Ozymandias expresses some concern about his actions with the giant squid. “I did the right thing, didn’t I?” he asks Dr. …
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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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