This is the seventh dispatch in a series from Jeff Goodell, who is in Antarcticainvestigatingthe effect ofclimate changeon Thwaites Glacier. Antarctica, a vast kingdom of ice at the end of the world, is not a place where you want to have a medical emergency. In the 1960s, a Russian doctor …
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WhileReal Housewives of Atlantastar and Grammy winner Kandi Burruss was in theCelebrity Big Brother house, two singles from her catalog as a songwriter were back in the news. Both Weezer and Ariana Grande recently produced fresh spins on a pair of classics that have Burruss’ name in the credits: the …
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Bethel Woods has announced that Ringo Starr and Santana will lead the original Woodstock site’s 50th anniversary celebration to the legendary 1969 festival. New York’s Bethel Woods Center for the Arts’ half-centennial event – a separate festival from the one being organized by original Woodstock founder Michael Lang in Watkins …
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British billionaire and Virgin Group CEO Richard Branson announced a benefit show last week to raise funds for food and medicine for the citizens of Venezuela. Modeled after Bob Geldof’s Eighties ‘Live Aid’ telethons for Ethiopia, the concert is set to take place this Friday in the Colombian border town …
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Yoko Ono and John Lennon‘s Wedding Album will be reissued this spring. Originally released in 1969, it was the couple’s third collaborative LP. Announced on Monday, which marks Ono’s 86th birthday, Unfinished Music No. 3: Wedding Album will be released via Secretly Canadian in partnership with Chimera Music on March …
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In the mid-2000s, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Scott Conner became something of an anti-hero in the heavy-music underground. Recording entirely on his own under the pseudonym Malefic and the “band” name of Xasthur, the California artist created dense, plodding black-metal tracks that, even in a subgenre known for its sonic bleakness …
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The South African DJ and house producer Black Coffee released a yearning video for the single “Wish You Were Here” on Friday. The video is full of isolated people looking into empty space; during the clip’s dramatic peak, one character kneels on the pavement and shouts at the sky, nearly …
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Lizzo is releasing her major label debut, Cuz I Love You, in April, and the title track offers a fiery taste of her incredibly vocal and genre range. It’s the second single off the LP, following up the retro “Juice.” “Cuz I Love You” starts with a bang: Lizzo belts “I’m …
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H.R. 1, better known as the For the People Act, has won praise from many Democrat-friendly pundits. The first proposed legislation of the Democratic House would, among other things, expand voting rights by encouraging same-day registration, force presidents and vice presidents to release tax returns, and ban members of Congress …
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J.R.R. Tolkien distills the essence of The Lord of the Rings in the new teaser trailer for the upcoming biopic, Tolkien, set to open May 10th. Nicholas Hoult stars as the legendary author, and in the clip he explains what his seminal saga will be about: “It’s a story about …
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