On July 15th, Paul Simon will play a massive gig in London’s Hyde Park billed as Homeward Bound: The Farewell Performance. It’s unclear at the moment if he intends for this to be the final gig he ever plays, the last time he plays in London or simply the beginning …
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James Corden auditioned a group of celebrities – including Cardi B, DJ Khaled and Hillary Clinton– for the chance to make a spoken-word version of Michael Wolff’s Trump administration tell-all Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White Houseduring an amusing skit at the Grammys on Sunday. Corden set up the …
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“I wrote this song a year ago, which means it’s not from the Sixties,” singer and mandolinist Chris Thile joked at Carnegie Hall on Thursday. Thile was referring to the theme of the night – an evening of durable protest songs, pegged to a city-wide festival devoted to the legacy …
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Ice-T added bawdy voiceover lines to children’s cartoons – The Magic School Bus, Arthur and Scooby-Doo – in an amusing sketch on The Tonight Show on Wednesday. Ice-T used to supplement his rap income with voiceover work on the side. “Gotta hustle, man,” he told Jimmy Fallon. “That was just …
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There’s pretty much one thing giving the Trump resistance hope these days – November 6th. That’s the day America goes back to the polls to vote for every member of the House of Representatives and one-third of our Senators. We don’t get to vote President Trump out of office until …
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East Nashville club the Basement East has developed a reputation for its regular tribute shows – usually an army of artists takes the stage to play the hits of a legend. During the venue’s most recent tribute night, however, it was a salute to the icons who died last year. …
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On a day like Friday, with a shutdown looming and DACA in the balance and Chuck Schumer huddling with President Trump in the White House, you might logically expect right-wing Twitter to be blowing up – but not, necessarily, with the seemingly unaccountable hashtag that’s dominated the platform since Thursday …
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Like Brits did with U.S. punk, Swedes Klara and Johanna Söderberg repurposed Davis Sisters-style country harmony on their 2012 breakthrough “Emmylou” into a bright new thing, laying into notes like they were tunnel-boring through glaciers. Producing their fourth set, folk-rock impressionist Tucker Martine (Neko Case, My Morning Jacket, Sufjan Stevens, …
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George Harrison‘s estate will celebrate the late Beatles legend’s 75th birthday with a massive vinyl reissue of the all-star Concert for George tribute. Held on November 29th 2002, the one-year anniversary of Harrison’s death, the concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall brought together Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Tom …
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Jack White will embark on a North American tour this spring in support of his new solo album, Boarding House Reach. The headlining trek kicks off April 19th at the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan and includes stops in Milwaukee, Omaha, Austin, Dallas, Houston, St. Louis, Washington D.C. and …
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