Miley Cyrus marks Pride Month with a new Peacock special. The pop star returned to her hometown of Nashville earlier this month to record a concert at the Ryman Auditorium that was heavy on LGBTQ anthems and country-music guests. Streaming June 25th, the hour-long concert includes appearances by Orville Peck, …
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No space is safe from the heaviness of our times — even, it appears, a Maroon 5 record. The tone of Adam Levine and company’s seventh LP is downright elegiac. “Toast to the ones that we lost on the way,” Levine offers on “Memories,” a sweet, somber, genuinely felt ballad, …
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While campaigning last year, then-candidate Joe Biden didn’t seem very enthusiastic about his prospective Justice Department prosecuting prospective civilian Donald Trump. It’s “a very, very unusual thing and probably not very … good for democracy, to be talking about prosecuting former presidents,” the future president said in August. But it …
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Patti Smith, Dave Matthews, and Michael Stipe are among the artists set to take part in the World Environment Day livestream concert happening on June 4th at 3 p.m. ET. The virtual concert was organized by Pathway to Paris, 350.org, and the United Nations Environment Program North America Region, and …
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R.E.M. will reissue their classic 1981 debut single, “Radio Free Europe,” this summer, making it available in its original form for the first time in 40 years. “Radio Free Europe (Original Hib-Tone Single)” will be available as a 45-rpm seven-inch on July 23rd, pressed in Athens, Georgia, with the original …
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Miley Cyrus covered her godmother Dolly Parton’s song “Light of a Clear Blue Morning” for Saturday Night Live’s cold open the night before Mother’s Day. Eschewing the usual topical opening sketch, SNL instead to have its cast members give thanks to their moms on the musical cold open. “Tomorrow is …
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https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/no-apologies-all-102-nirvana-songs-ranked-175683/ In the past month, Kurt Cobain and Nirvana have snuck back into the headlines. April 5th marked the 27th anniversary of Cobain’s death, an NFT of Cobain’s last photo shoot was put on the market, and Nirvana as a group were hit with a copyright-infringement lawsuit for alleged unauthorized …
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A German entomologist and a research associate at Yale University, with some help from R.E.M.‘s Michael Stipe, have named a new ant species Strumigenys ayersthey, after Charles “Jeremy” Ayers, the artist and political activist who was part of Andy Warhol‘s legion of “Superstars” as the gender-bending Silva Thin. The story …
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Lars Ulrich, Annie Clark (St. Vincent), Flea, The Edge, and more appear in an exclusive clip fromWhat Drives Us, a new documentary directed by Dave Grohl that pays tribute to the power of live performance. In the video, the musicians discuss why they love playing live as a montage of …
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Anthony Hopkins paid tribute to Chadwick Boseman in his belated Oscar acceptance speech, which was posted on Instagram this morning. The actor pulled off the upset of the night when he won Best Actor for his performance in The Father, even though he wasn’t on-hand (either virtually or in-person) to …
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