Sir Ian McKellen was among the first wave of people to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in the U.K., with the 81-year-old actor stating: “I feel very lucky to have had the vaccine. I would have no hesitation in recommending it to anyone.” In subsequent interviews after receiving the first …
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Tame Impala dropped an animated music video for “Breathe Deeper,” starring a CGI dragonfly. The track is taken from Tame Impala’s latest album The Slow Rush. Like many visuals from the project fronted by Kevin Parker, “Breathe Deeper” has a psychedelic bent to it. We watch the dragonfly have what …
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Singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka has released a new video for “Interlude (Loving the People),” off his most recent album, Kiwanuka. The clip was directed by Phillip Youmans, who crafts a lush, sun-soaked portrait of youthful reverie — complete with body paint, skateboarding, and surfing — that pairs perfectly with the atmospheric, …
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Weekend Update covered the Trump administration’s failed Supreme Court lawsuits as well as the Covid-19 vaccine rollout on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live. “This week, the Supreme Court dismissed two different Trump lawsuits to overturn the election results. They were the first rulings by the Supreme Court that …
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Taylor Swift‘s “‘Tis the Damn Season’ tells the tale of someone returning to their hometown and embarking on a fleeting but intimate relationship with someone from their past. It’s an emotional gut-punch, full of charming gusto that helps Evermore match so much of the fraught nostalgia from its sister record …
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Disclosure have shared their quirky new video for “Watch Your Step,” the Kelis-featuring single from the brotherly dance duo’s latest LP Energy. Keeping true to its title, the visual — directed by Kid Studio, who previously helmed Disclosure’s similarly oddball “Energy” and “Birthday” videos — centers around an extremely large-footed …
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Season Four of The Crown, Peter Morgan’s historical Netflix series about Queen Elizabeth and the British royal family, marks the highly anticipated debut of Princess Diana (Emma Corrin) and covers the first nine years of her marriage to Prince Charles (Josh O’Connor). And, since it’s set in the 1980s, the …
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Kiera Allen stars opposite Sarah Paulson in the new thriller Run (available now on Hulu), in which she portrays the wheelchair-bound daughter of Paulson’s manipulative mother character. As a wheelchair user herself, Allen was encouraged to audition for the role by how thoughtfully her physical disability was portrayed in the …
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For 2020, we’ve teamed up with Kirkus Reviews, the pre-eminent book-review publication, to create a list of the year’s best music books. The 21 titles we came up with include biographies of musicians from Wagner to Kendrick Lamar, memoirs by greats like Rob Halford and Mariah Carey, and deep-dive explorations …
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Liam Gallagher performed — via video — of his new holiday-inspired song “All You’re Dreaming Of” from atop a barge on Friday’s The Tonight Show. The performance served as a preview for Gallagher’s “Down by the River Thames” streaming special, premiering Saturday, December 5th. For that outdoor, crowd-less concert performed …
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