President-elect Joe Biden and Jill Biden will stage their last interview of the year during the Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2021 broadcast on December 31st. Three weeks before the inauguration, the Bidens will speak with host Ryan Seacrest and send “a special message of hope, unity, and best …
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Taylor Swift, for one, didn’t let this weird, sad year go to waste. With zero warning each time, she released and recorded two great albums, Folklore and Evermore.(At the same time, she quietly embarked on the task of re-recording her entire early catalog, after the rights to the original recordings …
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Promising Young Woman, the feature directorial debut of Killing Eve showrunner Emerald Fennell, is trying to pull off a tricky balancing act. When it starts, it’s a full-throated, implicitly bloody dive into the rape-revenge thriller — that troubled but fascinating and essential genre in which the long arc toward justice …
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Playboi Carti will release his long-awaited second album, Whole Lotta Red, on Christmas Day, December 25th. The rapper announced the news on social media Monday night, December 21st, sharing the release date, album cover, and a preorder link. The album announcement was accompanied by a sizable merch drop. https://www.instagram.com/p/CJFngjxAfDG/ Playboi …
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Vice President Mike Pence’s live and public receiving of the Covid-19 vaccine was the focus of Saturday Night Live’s latest cold open, which also featured the return of Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris and the debut of the series’ new Joe Biden portrayer. “Hello, thank you. I’m sure all Americans are …
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Ahead of Friday’s release of McCartney III, Paul McCartney virtually stopped by The Tonight Show to talk about the creation of his new album. “I just was in lockdown and I had some time on my hands, so I started finishing up songs and stuff, thinking this was just for …
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Bon Jovi rode their 1987 single “Wanted Dead or Alive” — with its power-ballad metaphor about a wandering outlaw, his steel horse, and a loaded six-string — into Eighties jukebox history. And it cemented singer Jon Bon Jovi as a rock-star cowboy in the process. He returned to the Wild …
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Anita White, the Seattle blues singer who performs under the name Lady A, has released a new song about her legal battle with a Nashville country-music trio over use of the name. “My Name Is All I Got” is a rhythmic, stomp-and-clap blues song that finds White detailing the hardships …
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Lindsey Boylan, a former advisor to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo who is running for Manhattan borough president, accused the governor of sexual harassment. In a Twitter thread posted Sunday, Boylan said that Cuomo “sexually harassed me for years” by commenting on her appearance. “I could never anticipate what to …
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So, How Was Your 2020?is a series in which our favorite entertainers answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their year. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. Kelsea Ballerini had the unfortunate timing of releasing her third album Kelsea one week into quarantine, …
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