James Gunn, following his firing from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, returns to the big screen as producer and co-writer on Brightburn, an upcoming “superhero horror” film. The film borrows many of the tropes from the Superman myth – the rural setting, an asteroid-strapped infant crash-landing in a field …
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Jay-Z won a court battle on Wednesday in a lawsuit against his company Roc Nation, on somewhat unusual grounds: The rapper-entrepreneur argued that the lack of African-American arbitrators presiding over the case left him susceptible to unconscious racial bias. The suit has to do with Jay-Z’s Rocawear clothing brand, which …
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Bob Dylan‘s More Blood, More Tracks landed on shelves earlier this month, finally letting fans into the creative process that produced Blood on the Tracks across just six days in 1974. Previously unheard solo acoustic renditions of the tunes are a revelation, as are the numerous attempts to record the …
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For his third appearance as a musical guest onSaturday Night Live, Lil Wayne took over Studio 8H to performtwo hits from his 2018 album Tha Carter V on the Liev Schreiber-hosted episode. To kick-off his set, Wayne brought an empowering performance of “Can’t Be Broken,” withHalsey making a surprise appearance …
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Florida Governor Rick Scott appeared to have won his race to replace incumbent Bill Nelson in the U.S. Senate. He gave a big victory speech on Tuesday night. President Trump even called to congratulate him. But Nelson knew not to concede. The race was close, there were still votes to …
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‘Fess up: You wanna see some Nazis get good and fucked up, don’t you? No, we’re not talking about the current plague of willfully ignorant racists and dangerously unstable, wild-card chuckleheads, though we’d be all too happy to see that collective pox on society fall off the face of the …
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There’s a famous episode of South Park called “Simpsons Already Did It,” where Butters proposes various schemes that he then has to abandon upon being reminded that someone on The Simpsons had previously tried it. It was a reflection of the innovation and influence of Bart, Homer and friends, and …
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Chris Gethard‘s new book Lose Well is a guide written from the trenches for anyone trying to make something happen. And –spoiler alert –whatever that may, you will fail at it. You will eat dirt in small ways and miserably large ways. Some flameouts will be spectacular, demoralizing, publicly humiliating …
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Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack held firm to the Number One on the Billboard 200 for the second straight week as the album added another 143,000 total copies to its tally. As Billboard notes, A Star Is Born is now the second Lady Gaga album …
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EDITORS’ PICK: Cat Power, Wanderer “Chan Marshall, aka: Cat Power, lays full claim to the title of her tenth album,Wandererwith the authority of a blueswoman who’s seen some shit,” writes Will Hermes, “alternately conjuring trances and slapping you out of them, projecting clear-eyed, uncompromising strength on one of the most …
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