This story was originally published by ProPublica. and was co-published with Texas Monthly. On the evening of May 30th, Brad Parscale, the campaign manager of Donald J. Trump for President Inc., gave a speech to a gathering of the faithful. Parscale is a striking figure: 6-foot-8, with a trademark Viking …
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Los Angeles trio Vivian Girls bring their ethereal fuzz rock to the desert in the new video for “Sludge.” It’s the third single off their highly anticipated comeback album, Memory, out September 20th via Polyvinyl Records. In their latest visual, Vivian Girls teleport like specters between the mountains and the …
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The 13th annual Stand Up For Heroes veterans fundraiser will take place November 4th at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden with a bill that includes Bruce Springsteen, Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Ronny Chieng and Hasan Minhaj. It is presented by the Bob Woodruff Foundation and the New York …
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With a majority of House Democrats now supporting an impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump, the House Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on Wednesday on a resolution that would establish parameters and procedures for future hearings. According to Politico, the coming resolution was discussed by committee Democrats during a …
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On August 26th, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina stewed above the Gulf of Mexico, the Drive-By Truckers played a show at Tipitina’s in New Orleans. It was a two-and-a-half hour set, 27 songs, most of them from the band’s previous three records, Southern Rock Opera, Decoration Day and, their most recent …
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Progressives and environmentalists have been clamoring for a climate debate among 2020 Democratic presidential candidates — seeking snappy, digestible back and forth between the candidates to gauge the differences in their approach to our gravest environmental challenge. Because the Democratic National Committee blocked that effort, banning issue-specific debates, Americans were …
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Taylor Swift‘s Lover is Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums Chart this week — out-selling every other release on the chart by a factor of more than ten to one. Lover topped out close to a million with 991,800 album units for the latest tracking week of …
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Halsey, Lizzo, Shawn Mendes and Tegan and Sara are among the artists taking part in “I’m Listening,” a radio program that aims to raise mental health awareness. The two-hour, commercial-free broadcast special will air on 235 Entercom stations on September 8th – the beginning of National Suicide Prevention Week – …
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Brockhampton have released their latest video for “Dearly Departed,” featuring five members of the Texas rap collective wearing silver suits and getting up close and personal to the camera in someone’s living room. Directed by and featuring Brockhampton leader Kevin Abstract, and filmed by Ashlan Grey, the clip addresses loss …
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Earlier this week, Thailand‘s Royal Household Bureau released more than 60 photos of King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun and his consort, on their website, and quite literally broke the internet — the pictures ended up being so popular that on Monday, the website crashed. But these weren’t your average royal portraits: …
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