After Arctic Monkeys embarked on a promotional trail that included no singles or music videos prior to the release of their new album Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, the band has now shared their surreal visual for the album standout “Four Out of Five.” The video opens with frontman Alex …
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In a contentiousNPRinterview that aired Friday morning, President Trump’s Chief of Staff, John Kelly, saidthat the “vast majority” of illegal immigrants “don’t integrate well” and “don’t have skills.” Kelly was defending a “zero tolerance policy” for illegal border crossings that was announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in April. Sessions …
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It’s doubtful that all the comic-book noise at the multiplex is making you long for Chekhov, but hey: Here’s the Russian playwright anyway! And unlike Sidney Lumet’s misbegotten 1968 film version of The Seagull, this new take on the 1896 theatrical milestone gets the casting right; ditto the tone of …
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Before I ever heard Liz Phair, I heard about Liz Phair. The Midwestern indie-rock gossip train had made the trip from Chicago, her hometown, to the Minneapolis record store where I worked in high school weeks before an advance copy of her 1993 debut, Exile in Guyville, did. Listening to …
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Post Malone set a new record for most streams in a week and established the best-selling week of 2018 as the rapper’s Beerbongs & Bentleys opened atop the Billboard 200. The album opened with 461,000 total copies in its first week of availability, with the majority of that total the …
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Rachel Maddow declares her a “liberal hero,” right-wing radio pundits refer to her as “this witch, this evildoer, this monster” and her granddaughters call her “bubbe.” To her childhood friends, she’s still the girl they called “Kicky.” Brooklynites claim her as one of their own; Cornell and Harvard Law list …
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Cambridge Analytica and its parent company Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL) announced they are shutting down operations and filing bankruptcy, as Gizmodo reports. The company, which is at the center of the Facebook data scandaland connected to mining social-media profiles that may have been used to deliver targeted ads to likely …
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Those who fear the death of rock & roll won’t be happy to hear that Gibson Brands Inc, the maker of some of America’s most epochal electric and acoustic guitars, has filed for bankruptcy. The Nashville-based company announced Tuesday that it is filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy and working on …
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Stevie Wonder, the Roots, Dave Matthews, Usher and more performed at the Equal Justice Initiative’s Concert for Peace and Justice Friday night in Montgomery, Alabama. The event was live-streamed on Tidal for both subscribers and non-subscribers of the streaming service. The all-star concert, which celebrated the opening of the National …
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Since the birth of country music more than a century ago, the genre has relied on songs that tell stories and allow listeners to share experiences relating to those stories. As technology has advanced, the discovery of new music has become more challenging, although the accessibility of those new songs …
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