It may sound obvious, but Orville Peck doesn’t particularly go for casual dress. The masked entertainer tends to complement his signature facial fringe with bright colors and rhinestones, nods to a bygone era of country music when the entertainers lived large and wore the clothes to prove it. “That’s what …
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The new HBO miniseries The Third Day begins with a leisurely, God’s-eye view of a verdant English country road, disturbing music, and the unmistakable sound of Jude Law‘s voice in distress saying, “What? Oh, no, no, no, no, no.” It’s early morning, and the character he’s playing, Sam, is already …
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Joe Biden is slamming Trump for a deadly “dereliction of duty,” following the release of taped conversations between the president and the journalist Bob Woodward in which Trump revealed he knew, in early February, that the coronavirus was airborne and much deadlier than the flu, and confessed on March 19th …
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There was a telling stat buried within the financial results of BMG, the recorded music and publishing company with a $670 million-plus annual turnover, last week. According to its German parent Bertelsmann, BMG’s total recorded music streaming revenue in the first half of 2020 was up by 26% year-on-year — …
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Fox News is having a hard time covering the president’s ass following The Atlantic’s reporting that claims Trump harshly disparaged the military — mostly because their own reporter has confirmed much of what the report said. On Saturday morning, following a late Friday night tweet from the president calling on …
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Drake taps Justin Bieber to take his place in the new music video for the rapper’s latest collaboration with DJ Khaled, “Popstar.” The elaborate Director X-helmed clip opens with Khaled hitting Drake with a barrage of video messages, insisting they find some way to make a music video for the …
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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has revealed that he and his immediate family — including his wife Lauren Hashian and young daughters Jasmine and Tiana— have tested positive for the novel coronavirus. He shared the news via a lengthy video on Instagram on Wednesday. He and his family have been suffering …
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David Byrne took to Twitter on Tuesday to apologize for portraying characters of color in a 1984 promo skit for the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense. In the original skit, Byrne portrays a series of different characters who are interviewing him — and wears skin-darkening makeup (blackface or …
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The first teaser for Netflix‘s The Haunting of Bly Manorkicks off with a classic horror movie trope: a child singing a creepy lullaby. From there, it wanders into all places dark and scary — from an ominous well to a living doll to a sodden woman rising from a lake. …
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In many ways, Angel Olsen’s All Mirrors was a quintessential pre-pandemic record: elegant music with vast orchestral arrangements, made for glitzy all-nighters spent wandering the city. Less than a year later, the ballrooms might be shut down, but Olsen has returned with something far more intimate and spectacular. Whole New …
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