The music industry seems near-unanimous in its delight over Joe Biden’s ascension to president-elect and Kamala Harris’ rise to vice president-elect. Rolling Stone recently heralded Biden and Harris as offering “progressive solutions to every major problem facing the country”. It appears a majority of music’s most successful superstars agree. (No, …
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It’s time to make “Y.M.C.A.” great again. People in the streets of Philadelphia are dancing to “Y.M.C.A.” in celebration of the news that Joe Biden has taken the lead in Pennsylvania. That means he’s nearly clinched the presidential race — hopefully to be called tonight. The Village People’s Seventies disco …
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Earlier this summer, Rufus Wainwright released Unfollow the Rules, his first full-on pop album since 2012’s Out of the Game, after a three-month delay due to the Covid-19 shutdown. Although he hasn’t been able to go out on the road to share his songs with fans on a tour as …
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, the GOP congressional candidate who has endorsed the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon, has won the 14th congressional district of Georgia, making her the first congressperson to officially endorse the conspiracy theory. Taylor Greene, the projected favorite, won in an overwhelming victory against Democratic candidate Kevin Van Ausdal, …
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President Donald Trump spent the day before the election insulting some of the biggest names in music, thereby ensuring that — should he win — his inauguration will once again be utterly bereft of talent. Per Forbes, Trump held a rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Monday during which he lit into …
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Jim Carrey’s Joe Biden read an Election Day retelling of The Raven — and welcomed back Kate McKinnon’s Hillary Clinton, who delivered a dire warning — during Saturday Night Live‘s Halloween cold open, the series’ last pre-Election Day episode. “Greetings America, it’s a spooky time filled with demons and darkness. …
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On the 27th anniversary of River Phoenix‘s death, his sister Rain has dropped a lyric video for his band Aleka Attic’s “Alone U Elope.” The track features Flea on bass and Dermot Mulroney on cello. Animated by Chris Tucci, the video opens on a theater that reveals a ladder leading …
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In 1969, Jeff Wolfram was carried into the Red Chimney — a Los Angeles restaurant his father had bought two years earlier — and placed on the bar. He was two days old. His father Horst had arrived in America from Germany in the 1960s. Horst wasn’t planning on staying …
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LoveRenaissance, also known as LVRN, only has 10 acts on its roster. The tight-knit, black-owned music company — run by first-generation immigrants from Ghana, Nigeria, Trinidad, and Jamaica — dedicates time to a small group of rising artists instead of going after superstars. “It’s just more fun that way,” says …
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Busta Rhymes previewed his soon-to-be-released albumExtinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of Godon Thursday with a new song, “Look Over Your Shoulder,” featuring Kendrick Lamar. Built around a sample of the Jackson 5’s “I’ll Be There,” the track sees the two hip-hop titans trading bars about their respective successes. Lamar …
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