On May 17th, 2017, former FBI Director Robert Mueller was named to lead a special Justice Department investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and any ties between the Russian government and Donald Trump‘s presidential campaign. After nearly two years and hundreds of protestations from the president, that investigation …
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Mumford & Sons, Kings of Leon and Dave Matthews Band are among the artists announced to perform at San Diego’s annual outdoor Kaaboo Del Mar Festival. The lineup of the fifth incarnation of the three-day festival also includes Duran Duran, Black Eyed Peas, Sublime with Rome, OneRepublic, Sheryl Crow and …
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Comedian Aparna Nancherla vented about social media anxiety and the absurdities of therapy sessions in her stand-up set from Wednesday’s Late Show With Stephen Colbert. “I am on my phone too much,” she said as an overture. “I don’t think I am the only one. But I had a rock-bottom …
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Few musicians have lived — and died and lived again — quite like Nikki Sixx. In the three-and-a-half decades he spent playing bass in Mötley Crüe and serving as the group’s primary songwriter, he mainlined heroin, indulged any groupie’s whims and helped the band become Top 10 hitmakers. Outside of …
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Sharon Van Etten turned up the intensity of her single “Comeback Kid” during her performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday. Backed by her four-piece band and bathed in warm red and yellow lighting, the singer took a more blistering, gritty approach than on the recorded version …
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Adam Ant will deliver a full album performance of his 1982 LP Friend or Foe on a North American trek this fall. The month-long, 18-date trek begins September 4th in Milwaukee and concludes October 1st in Miami. At each stop, Ant will run through Friend or Foe – his most …
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Music streaming has always been a cutthroat market, with the leading companies not having many positive things to say about one another. But things became particularly heated this week when a small tweak to U.S. copyright rules — which actually happened a whole year ago and is resurfacing now because …
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A terrorist attack left 49 people dead on Friday at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The attack, which took place around the time of congregational prayer, was streamed live on Facebook and then posted to YouTube. A 74-page manifesto released by a man claiming responsibility makes clear that the …
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Ozuna dropped his brand new track, “Vacía Sin Mí,” with an accompanying video on Thursday. Co-starring Puerto Rican rapper and “Te Boté” collaborator Darell, the song, which translates to “Empty Without Me,” will be featured in Ozuna’s upcoming third album, Nibiru. In the electrifying new clip — devised by Ozuna’s …
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At Snarky Puppy shows, Michael League never knows what kind of music head will be sitting in the front rows. “There are people in Slayer or Biggie Smalls T-shirts,” he says. “Sometimes it’s folkloric musicians. There are people who were around when Weather Report was doing its thing and see …
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