Freddie Gibbs and Madlib unveiled another dark-edged track, “Bandana,” featuring Jamaican dancehall star Assassin. The song boasts a sparse beat composed of booming bass drum hits, click-clack percussion and a haunting swirl of choral vocals. The ominous atmosphere provides the perfect canvas for Gibbs and Assassin to tear off a …
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Bebe Rexha lit up The Late Show with a cleansing fire during a performance of her latest single, “Last Hurrah,” Monday. The performance opened with a slightly awkward moment, when the lighter Rexha was holding up to her mouth flickered out before she had the chance to properly lick the …
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Dierks Bentley will return to Buena Vista, Colorado, for the second installment of his Seven Peaks Music Festival. Once again set for Labor Day Weekend, August 30th through September 1st, the mountains-set festival features an eclectic mix of contemporary country artists and Bentley’s bluegrass heroes. Luke Bryan, Maren Morris, Jon …
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Jerry Lee Lewis, one of the last Fifties rock & roll architects alive and performing, has been hospitalized, the singer’s representatives announced via his Facebook page. Here is the full message: “Last night, Jerry Lee Lewis suffered a minor stroke. He is with his family, recuperating in Memphis and the …
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This is the ninth dispatch in a series from Jeff Goodell, who will be investigating the effect of climate change on Thwaites glacier. At about 5 a.m. last Tuesday morning, at latitude 74 degrees 57.4 S and longitude 106 12.8 W on the remote coast of West Antarctica, Thwaites glacier …
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In the new trailer for Netflix comedy series Turn Up Charlie, Idris Elba plays a struggling London DJ whose latest side project — professional nannying — is much less glamorous than the festival slots of his glory days. “I’m Charlie. I was a massive deal,” Elba narrates in the clip …
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Just a little under 20 years ago, Mavis Staples thought her career was over. Pops Staples, her father and the leader of the Staples Singers, had just died and she didn’t see how she could possibly carry on without him. “I’d just sit down and wouldn’t get up,” Mavis Staples …
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What’s up movie-wise in March? Harmony “Spring Breakers” Korine returns to Florida with Matthew McConaughey for a stoner’s odyssey; Jordan Peele unleashes a family of murderous lookalikes; Marvel punches gender iniquity in the face with their first female-fronted solo film; a miraculous documentary places you in America’s first voyage to …
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Patty Griffin unveils another exquisite sneak preview of her forthcoming self-titled album, due early next month. “Hourglass” moves along a slippery groove, punctuated by gypsy jazz guitar, New Orleans horns and Griffin’s dusky and soulful Emmylou Harris-meets-Billie Holiday vocal delivery. Observing the inevitably cyclical nature of humans, Griffin says the …
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Yungblud attempts to save Halsey from a fatal car crash while reliving the events every day in the video for “11 Minutes.” The Groundhog Day (or Russian Doll) style visual shows the British rock musician going through the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and eventually acceptance. While at …
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