Danish punks Iceage and Atlanta garage rockers the Black Lipswill unite for a co-headlining North American tour this fall. The trek launches November 5th at the Rickshaw Theatre in Vancouver and wraps with a two-night stand at the Earl in the Black Lips‘ hometown of Atlanta, November 23rd and 24th. …
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Update, 6:10 p.m. ET: Sen. Ted Cruz announced he plans to introduce legislation this week mandating that families be kept together while their immigration cases are resolved. The separation of immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border is spiraling into a national crisis of policy and conscience, and the leading voices …
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Bebe Rexha alternates between self-loathing and optimism on her glittery new electro-pop song “I’m a Mess.” The singer-songwriter opens with affirmations – “Everything’s gonna be alright; everything’s gonna be OK/ It’s gonna be a good, good life – that’s what my therapist say” – before sliding into anxiety on the …
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Opening with one of the most distinctive drum hits in rock & roll history, Elvis Presley‘s 1957 movie tune, “Jailhouse Rock,” smashed it way to the top of the pop, r&b and country charts, becoming one of the most iconic tunes in the Elvis canon. For all its oddly homoerotic …
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Annie Clark, the artist who records under the name St. Vincent, discusses the nature of creativity and where her ideas come from in a new short film, Disruption by Design, which is premiering here. “One of the ideas in this latest iteration of the tour is, ‘Is this OK?’ and …
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In 2001, French director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the film Murder on a Sunday Morning, about the wrongful murder conviction of a 15-year-old black teenager named Brenton Butler. The documentary offered a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the uphill battle waged by Butler’s …
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Before heading on a trip abroad that will take him to the G-7 summit in Canada on Friday, and then to Singapore to meet with Kim Jong-un early next Tuesday, President Trump hinted that he is likely to support a bill introduced Thursday that would protect state marijuana laws from …
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Beyoncé and Jay-Z launched their second On the Run trek on Wednesday in Wales, and much like their first OTR tour, the new show finds the pair toying with the truth and mythology that surrounds their relationship. But several aspects of the tour indicate that the playing field isn’t quite …
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Phish compiled concert recordings from their massive 2017 run in New York City for a trio of upcoming live releases. The Baker’s Dozen: Live at Madison Square Garden will be issued on November 30th as a three-CDandsix-LP release, both featuring 13 band-curated tracks, and the expansive Complete Baker’s Dozen Box …
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Update:The White House has released a second statement about the event. *** One of the unique perks to winning a major national sports title used to be traveling to the White House to meet the president. This hasn’t been the case since Trump took office, though, and what used to …
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