After years of anticipation, Geddy Lee will release a memoir slated for fall 2022. In an Instagram post, the bassist explained that the idea for a memoir came from his lockdown in Toronto during the pandemic —the longest he’d ever spent there since he was 19 and playing the Northern …
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Human pop stars? That’s so pre-pandemic. I was skeptical, a few weeks ago, as I approached the doors to a taping of Alter Ego, Fox’s new singing competition with a high-tech twist, but itfelt the same as entering any old sound stage —at least for the first minute or so. …
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Cedric the Entertainer opened the 2021 Emmy Awards with a salute to the late Biz Markie’s classic track “Just a Friend” — with some reworked lyrics sprinkled with nods to HBO Max, Sesame Street, and Black-ish. LL Cool J, Rita Wilson, and rapper/Dave star Lil Dicky joined in for the …
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The Roy family returns in all their conniving, backstabbing glory in the new trailer for Season Three of Succession, set to premiere October 17th on HBO. The trailer captures the chaos following Kendall’s betrayal of his father, Logan, at the end of Season Two, with all sides scrambling to wrest …
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Domestic extremists used TikTok, an app best known for short videos and viral dances, to spread information about bringing guns to the January 6th Capitol attack and accessing the White House through tunnels, according to a Homeland Security briefing. The briefing document reveals domestic extremists have been using the social …
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When Hank Williams Jr. began his music career in the Sixties, he did little to distance himself from the shadow cast by his monumental father. He released albums with titles like Songs My Father Left Me, sang “Your Cheatin’ Heart” and “Hey Good Lookin’” in the same lonesome style, and …
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Netflix has released a new trailer for its upcoming limited series, Maid, which is set to premiere on October 1st. The new series is based on Stephanie Land’s memoir, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive. It stars Margaret Qualley as Alex, a single mother who …
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Don Diablo can’t sit still. The Dutch DJ, who was doing around 200 shows a year before the pandemic forced him to press pause, recently became one of the highest-averaging NFT artist in the world. Diablo claims to sleep two to four hours each day starting at 5 a.m., and …
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I fell in love with a shambling corpse, the day the towers fell. I was fourteen years old, in small-town Colorado. We clustered around a television that showed, again and again, a commercial jet flying into the World Trade Center. The broadcast footage, a mere 45 minutes old, was already …
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Buffy Sainte-Marie, the Indigenous folk singer known for the story-of-life hit “The Circle Game,” wrote “Until It’s Time for You to Go” back in 1965. It’s a heartbreaker of a song about loving someone before you part ways forever, and it caught the ear of Elvis Presley, who released his …
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