T here have been all manner of supernatural manifestations, many of them quite unpleasant, on HBO’s Game of Thrones, which begins its eighth and final season in April: resurrections, premonitions, psychic time travel, a killer shadow baby, a vast army of dead dudes, a fireproof queen, a zombie dragon, regular …
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Frightened Rabbit have released a live tribute album in honor of late singer Scott Hutchinson. The album was recorded last December when a group of musicians, including Death Cab For Cutie singer Ben Gibbard and The Hold Steady‘s Craig Finn, gathered at Brooklyn’s Rouge Trade to celebrate Hutchinson’s music. Titled …
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Sigrid dances in an empty room in her new video for “Don’t Feel Like Crying.” As soon as the pop singer lays on a mustard yellow rug in shimmering disco pants, the saturated interiors change colors—the mod chairs transition from red to blue, as does the window curtains—signifying a change …
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There’s no denying it: Latin music has never been as popular as it is at this very moment. So when the Recording Academy announced its nominees for the 2019 Grammy Awards, feelings of confusion, frustration, and indignation abound among Latin music’s top-charting artists — the vast majority of whom make …
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Samantha Bee examined Americans’ lethargic response to President Trump’s most recent iteration of the travel ban (or “Muslim ban”) on Wednesday’s Full Frontal, firing up viewers to “dust off your pussy hat” and get back in the protest game. In January 2017, days after entering office, President Trump signed the …
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FKA Twigs, Teyana Taylor, Teirra Whack and Rosalía are among the artists set to perform during Red Bull Music Festival New York, which will run April 30th through May 18th. FKA Twigs will headline two shows, May 11th and 12th, at the Park Avenue Armory. The shows mark her first …
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There will always be the peace, the love and the music, but the legacy of any large music festival will also always include a heap of trash. For 50 years, oceans of waste have washed over fields from Bethel, New York to Indio, California to Somerset, England. And though this …
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Jack White penned a tribute to Dick Dale following the King of the Surf Guitar’s death Sunday. Like a generation of guitarists before him, White was inspired by Dale’s pioneering style. “I spent many moments learning his massive reverbed guitar licks in my bedroom, and still enjoy playing his song …
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The last time the Beastie Boys attended South By Southwest, it was in 2006, when the group was promoting their fan-sourced concert film Awesome; I Fuckin’ Shot That! A lot has changed in the last 13 years. When the Beastie Boys stopped by to deliver a keynote address at the …
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On Wednesday morning, Fox News hosted advertisers at its New York headquarters for the first “upfronts” meeting in the network’s history. The goal was to convince executives to purchase airtime on Fox News programming blocks despite the network’s Trump-fueled descent into abject demagoguery. Though protesters congregated outside the network’s Manhattan …
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