Ian Anderson and his band Jethro Tull have signed an open letter to the U.K. government outlining the realities of the Covid-19 crisis for musicians and suggesting possible solutions for how to bring back live music. In the preface to his letter, Anderson notes that he had privately sent it …
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Covid-19 has claimed the lives of over 175,000 Americans, but you wouldn’t know it from watching the first night of the Republican National Convention. Instead of shying away from addressing the Trump administration’s woeful mismanagement of the pandemic, the RNC painted the response as a success story, trotting out speaker …
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In his seemingly endless efforts to thwart a robust democratic participation in November’s election, on Thursday night President Trump told Sean Hannity that he planned to send law enforcement to polling places on election day. He told the Fox News host, “We’re going to have sheriffs, and we’re going to …
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Metallica have refigured their crushing hit, “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” with the San Francisco Symphony, for their upcoming S&M2 release, due out next Friday. In the intro, Robert Trujillo plays the track’s apocalyptic descending bass line as the string section swells around it, while conductor Edwin Outwater jumps up …
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Wednesday is the fourth anniversary of when the man who is now president went to Dimondale, Michigan, a working-class suburb of Lansing, and, referencing black voters, barked out for the first time, “What do you have to lose by trying something new, like Trump?” Well, how much time did he …
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With the political world focused on the Democratic convention Monday night, President Trump looked to steal some of the limelight by saying that he will seek a third term if he wins re-election. During a rally in Wisconsin, the president lied to a cheering crowd, telling them that he deserves …
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Adam Weiner has just finished doing pushups in his underwear while singing Canadian punk band SNFU’s “Time to Buy a Futon” for 165 paying fans. “Whoo! I’m really schvitzing now,” Weiner, the frontman and songwriter for Philadelphia rock revivalist band Low Cut Connie, tells the camera, as he puts on …
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Before the late-night show and the household fame, the Roots were the pride of Philadelphia’s underground hip-hop scene. The quiet heart of that version of the Roots — an unforgettable part of the lineup that put them on the map, won countless devoted fans, and enabled all the success to …
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Ellie Goulding shared an intimate two-song set, featuring performances of “Flux” and “Power,” for the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s In My Room series. The singer delivered her performance from a studio space in Oxford, England, where she was accompanied by a pianist named James. The simple set-up was particularly …
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CNN anchor Brianna Keilar dissected President Trump’s weekend interview with Fox News, and the number of lies she found is so mind-boggling that at one point she said, “He’s even lying about the lie there.” On the coronavirus, Keilar said that the president is “denying reality” so much so that …
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