After her iHeartRadio Music Festival cover of Blondie‘s “Heart of Glass” went viral last week, Miley Cyrus has dropped it on streaming services. This year’s iHeartRadio Festival took place virtually, with Cyrus joining BTS, Coldplay and Migos for the two-day event. Her cover of “Heart of Glass” transformed Blondie’s disco …
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The first half of 2020 was an intense whirlwind, but one that “clarified and in some ways accelerated cultural trends that Gen Zs and millennials have been shaping for years,” Dawn Ostroff, Spotify‘s Chief Content & Advertising Business Officer, says. Ostroff and the audio-streaming platform released “Culture Next” this morning, …
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The Beatles: Get Back —Peter Jackson‘s eagerly awaited documentary about the making of what came to be theLet It Be album and movie — has been pushed back to August 2021. To help soften the blow, the Beatles have announced the publication of a new companion book to the film. …
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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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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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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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Samantha Bee tackled the lack of diversity in journalism on the latest episode of Full Frontal, where the host was joined by a trio of journalists — including Rolling Stone Senior Politics Writer Jamil Smith — to discuss the issue. “Unfortunately, like most things, there’s a race problem in journalism, …
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John Ratzenberger — the actor best known for playing the affable mailman Cliff Clavin on Cheers —was enlisted to record a Cameo video urging people to support the United States Postal Service. The video happened to be commissioned by Tim Kasher, the punk stalwart best known for fronting bands like …
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