During the past few years, Kamasi Washington has found himself in places a jazz musician never would have expected to be. With the release of his aptly named 2015 triple LP, The Epic, the L.A. saxophonist and bandleader was deemed the genre’s next big thing. So there he was, in …
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The debut album from late Brooklyn rapper Pop Smoke will be posthumously released June 12th via Victor Victor Worldwide. While the release date was shared, no other details about the album were made available, including a tracklist, title or possible guest features. Although the record marks Pop Smoke’s debut album …
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Early in The Great, Hulu‘s new satire about the younger years of Russian empress Catherine the Great, her husband, Peter III, insists, “People underestimate the joy in suffering.” The Great for the most part finds Peter to be an utter buffoon of a failson, but it agrees with him on …
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In 2020, disbelief is rare: Once-in-a-lifetime pandemics have a way of making even the most outlandish news seem unimpressive. Yet when Westside Gunn — a Buffalo rapper who channels 90s New York hip-hop of yore — released the tracklist for his latest album, Pray For Paris, fans were bewildered. In …
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Veteran country star Kenny Chesney beat Drake on the latest Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. Chesney’s Here and Now was boosted by an impressive sales total, more than 218,000 copies, most of which came through ticket-album bundles. But the album didn’t fare nearly as well on streaming: The 12 …
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Dr. Anthony Fauci will go into “modified quarantine” after coming into contact with an unnamed White House staffer who tested positive for the coronavirus. A member of the White House’s coronavirus task force told CNN that the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ contact with the …
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Unheard recordings from Frank Zappa’s short-lived but beloved 1970 lineup of the Mothers feature in the upcoming box set The Mothers 1970, a four-disc set featuring 70 unreleased studio and live tracks out of the legendary guitarist’s Vault. The Zappa Trust announced the June 26th-bound release with the newly unearthed …
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Norah Jones has unveiled her melancholic video for “Tryin’ to Keep It Together,” a bonus song from her upcoming album, Pick Me Up Off the Floor, which will be released on June 12th via Blue Note. The clip reflects the pensive lyrics, which hauntingly repeat the song title’s of-the-times sentiment …
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Annette Bening lets it rip as Grace, a bile-spewing wife who keeps coming so hard at her reserved husband Edward (Bill Nighy) that she’s practically daring him to leave her. When, after 29 years, he finally gets up the nerve to do just that, all hell breaks loose. Edward and …
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The 2018 Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody may not seem like an obvious candidate for a sequel, especially since it ends in 1985 with frontman Freddie Mercury learning he’s contracted HIV. But after the film grossed over $900 million worldwide and won four Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Rami Malek, …
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