Maybe you tuned in for the nostalgia factor, basking in the way a half-decade’s worth of pop-cultural raw material and fortysomething geek touchstones were deftly turned into an I-Heart-the-’80s mixtape. Maybe you dug the way the first season mined an old-fashioned thrills-spills-chills feeling that left the multiplex eons ago. Maybe …
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Chance the Rapper brought Francis and the Lights and Lin-Manuel Miranda onstage in Chicago to perform the Hamilton song “Dear Theodosia” on Wednesday. Chance the Rapper was headlining the closing ceremony of the inaugural Obama Foundation Summit. “Dear Theodosia” is a hopeful song about the promise of the next generation …
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Tim Heidecker imagines the ultimate reckoning ofPresident Donald Trumpon a sanguine new song, “Sentencing Day.” The track will appear on the comedian’s new record, Too Dumb for Suicide: Tim Heidecker’s Trump Songs, which arrives digitally November 8th – the one-year anniversary of the 2016 election – via Jagjaguwar. “Sentencing Day” …
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Is it us, or does Netflix seem to be making a concerted bid to straight-up own November? It’s launching a pair of expensive-looking period-set miniseries, a long-anticipated Marvel spin-off, a sophomore run for one of the best TV cult comedies of the past 10 years and their big-league awards contender …
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Earlier this month, the R&B singer Ty Dolla $ign stood in the middle of a small studio crammed with listeners in midtown Manhattan as his Beach House 3 album rumbled through the speakers. Flanked by two golden “$” balloons, he celebrated the new release by dragging on a joint, conducting …
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Brian Eno has long been a fan of My Bloody Valentine‘s fuzzy shoegaze Impressionism, so he welcomed that band’s Kevin Shields into his studio to experiment with sounds. The result is “Only Once Away My Son,” a new track the pair is releasing via Adult Swim’s “singles program.” Over the …
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Comedian Taran Killam still regrets playing a part in what he calls the “endorsement” of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in November 2015, when the real estate mogul hosted Saturday Night Live. “In retrospect, for me – and it’s mostly about my personal experience with it and how I feel about …
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What advice do you wish you could give your younger self?I don’t think I could give advice to my younger self because she probably wouldn’t listen. See 50th Anniversary Photo Issue Gallery How did you get involved with Rolling Stone?Between my second and third years at the San Francisco Art …
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Billy Joel, “the King of Long Island,” visitedJimmy Kimmel Live Thursday in Brooklyn, with the singer impersonating Bruce Springsteen, announcing an extension to his Madison Square Garden residency and performing “Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)” during the episode. The interview came the day after both Joel …
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Kevin Smith‘s allegiance to Harvey Weinstein dissolved earlier this month amid reports that the now-disgraced movie mogul had sexually assaulted or harassed dozens of women in the industry over the years. And on October 13th, the filmmaker decided to take action to show his solidarity for those who have suffered …
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