After a year’s hiatus, New York hip-hop radio station Hot 97 is bringing back Summer Jam. This year, the flagship station’s annual music festival will bring rap and R&B acts to East Rutherford, New Jersey’s MetLife Station on August 22. The artist lineup is yet to be announced. Summer Jam …
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Slipknot will headline their own Knotfest in their home state of Iowa this fall with a lineup that also includes Faith No More, Megadeth, Lamb of God, Gojira, and many others. The event will take place at Indianola, Iowa’s National Balloon Classic Field on September 25th. Tickets will be available …
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Weekend Update covered the week’s big news and gave the spotlight to two potentially departing cast members during Saturday Night Live‘s Season 46 finale. “Well, it’s last Weekend Update, and I have to say, I think the country is in a better place than when we started this season,” co-anchor …
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Pet Shop Boys have released their new song “Cricket Wife,” a 10-minute track the duo recorded while under lockdown in 2020. The track was originally conceived as an instrumental work composed by Pet Shop Boys’ Chris Lowe, with Neil Tennant adding the lyrics — based on a poem he had …
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Little Steven, a.k.a. Steven Van Zandt, has announced that he’ll be releasing a new concert film, Summer of Sorcery Live! at the Beacon Theatre, on July 9th via Wicked Cool Records/UMe. Filmed on November 6th, 2019, at New York City’s Beacon Theatre in front of a sold-out crowd, the two-and-a-half-hour …
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Lucy Dacus takes us back to the summer of 2007 in “VBS,” the latest single off her upcoming album Home Video. The track kicks off with a steady drumbeat, as Dacus recalls her teenage romance at Bible camp: “Back in the cabin/Snorting nutmeg in your bunk bed/You were waiting for …
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By day — or at least what constitutes day on Mars time — Brendan Chamberlain-Simon is a member of a group called the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which currently is among a larger team overseeing the Mars Perseverance rover mission; stargazers likely read of Chamberlain-Simon’s recent exploits, as — in …
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& ldquo;We’ve known each other for so long,” J-Hope recently told BTS‘ youngest member, Jung Kook, 23. “And I love how you haven’t changed at all.” More than any other member, Jung Kook grew up in BTS; he was only 15 when the group debuted in 2013, and he’d been …
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House Republicans elected Rep. Elise Stefanik to replace Rep. Liz Cheney as their House conference chair, the third top-ranking member of the caucus. Once a fierce Trump opponent known for bipartisanship, Stefanik pivoted during Trump’s impeachment to become one of his most avid defenders and a “rising star” in the …
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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame righted a lot of past wrongs yesterday by finally inducting Tina Turner and Carole King separate from their former partners, and bringing in LL Cool J, Kraftwerk, and Todd Rundgren years after they should have, considering those artists’ vast accomplishments. “I never put …
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