When it rains, it pours: Ever since an am-I-blue Will Smith showed up during a commercial in between Grammy no-shows, there’s been a deluge of trailers that have hit the internet. In a little under a week, we got peeks at George Clooney’s upcoming adaptation of Catch-22 for Hulu, the …
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The music business doesn’t do certainties. This capriciousness, of course, is one of the things that makes it so beguiling. Three minutes of songwriting inspiration; an influential new fan; an out-of-the-blue pop-culture hook-up — they can all instantly rocket a song, or a star, into the consciousness of millions. Yet …
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The Academy Awards confirmed Friday that Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga will perform their A Star Is Born hit “Shallow” at the February 24th ceremony. The duet is nominated in the Best Original Song category. The Oscars‘ announcement comes less than a week after Gaga and Cooper performed the song …
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The trial of accused cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera inched toward the finish line Tuesday morning as the defense team rested its case after calling a single witness to testify. In a lightning round of questioning that clocked in at less than half an hour, defense attorney Jeffrey …
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In November of 1991, Neil Young told Rolling Stone about his ambitious plans to dig into his archives and release “eighteen to twenty albums’ worth of unreleased material” in some form or another. “We can’t put it all out,” Young said. “But it will be like an archive. There will …
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Cardi B, Post Malone and Camila Cabello are among the first slate of artists set to perform at the 61st Grammy Awards. The initial lineup also includes Shawn Mendes, Janelle Monáe, Kacey Musgraves and Dan and Shay. Alicia Keys will host the show, which will air live on CBS February …
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Don’t forget about Russia. President Trump’s scheme to hold 800,000 federal employees hostage over border wall funding has dominated news coverage since the government began operating under a partial shutdown on December 21st, but Special Counsel Robert Mueller is still busy looking into his campaign’s relationship with Russian President Vladimir …
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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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Nick Cave again defended his decision to play two shows in Tel Aviv, Israel last year in an open letter to Brian Eno, who was one of several musicians to criticize the move. Cave shared the letter on his ongoing Q&A series Red Hand Files in response to a fan’s …
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