Two black men walk into a bar. “It was a dark and stormy night,” Open Mike Eagle says in an old-timey British accent, setting the stage. “A man with a double-breasted blazer and a smoking pipe walks in,” Baron Vaughn says, picking up his friend’s story. Then the punchline arrives. …
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New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain revealed that he has been battling cancer for the past year and has launched a GoFundMe to help pay for an upcoming surgery and recovery. Sylvain didn’t offer many details about the cancer, but said he hoped his upcoming surgery would “do the trick.” …
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Three years after its release, Beyonce’s Lemonade album has been added to streaming services, including Spotify, Deezer and Apple Music. Previously, in order to hear the album or watch the accompanying film fans to be subscribers to TIDAL, the music service co-owned by Beyonce and Jay-Z. The streaming version of …
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Saturday Night Live star Leslie Jones has some strong opinions about Game of Thrones. In a recurring feature called “Game of Jones,” Seth Meyers invites Jones to watch and react to episodes of the HBO show, which the pair are continuing for the eighth and final season. In a new …
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Meet Ramy Hassan. He’s 27 years old and lives in Rutherford, New Jersey, with his parents and his younger sister; he was going to get a place of his own, but then the start-up he worked at went belly-up. Now he schleps for his uncle in New York’s diamond district …
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Revered progressive electronic act Tangerine Dream have collected previously unheard outtakes, live footage, 5.1 surround sound versions and newly remastered studio tracks for the upcoming box set In Search of Hades: The Virgin Recordings 1973 – 1979, out June 14th via UMC-Virgin. The 16-CD/2-Blu-Ray Ultra Deluxe version collects the band’s …
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UPDATE: Mary J. Blige and Nas have extended their co-headlining summer tour with five new U.S. dates. The duo will now perform August 28th in Brooklyn; August 29th in Baltimore, Maryland; September 8th in Newark, New Jersey; September 12th in Indianapolis, Indiana; and September 17th in Los Angeles. General tickets …
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Backstage at a club in Sheffield, England, Priests singer Katie Alice Greer and guitarist G.L. Jaguar were arguing at the top of their lungs about the future of their band. It was the fall of 2017, and they had just started a European tour that was rapidly unraveling. “Gideon and …
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Jennifer Lopez throws a very chic carnival in her music video for new single “Medicine,” creating a dynamic freak show in monochrome white (and glitter). In the clip for the track, which features French Montana, Lopez takes on various roles, first as a fashionable fortune teller, then in a glittering, …
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On April 6th, 2016, his 79th birthday, country music icon Merle Haggard died at his home in California’s San Joaquin Valley after a battle with pneumonia. In the three years since his passing, Haggard’s already sizeable legacy continues to inspire country artists and others touched by his image as the …
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