Dhani Harrison released another cinematic song, “Summertime Police,” from his upcoming debut solo LP, IN///PARALLEL. The arrangement unfolds in two parts. It opens in an ambient calm of glacial guitars that become stabbing synths, distorted bass and an elastic bent-note guitar solo. The lyrics conjure an unnerving police state that …
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On October 6th, Rhino Records will release the Replacements‘For Sale: Live At Maxwell’s 1986, recorded at the storied Hoboken, New Jersey club just as the band was beginning an East Coast tour to support their major label debut,Tim. The ‘Mats were famous for their self-destructive onstage hi-jinx. But For Sale …
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As Lara Croft, Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl) storms through a forest, leaps across a collapsing bridge and stares down a ravaging storm in the action-packed first trailer for the adventure film Tomb Raider, a reboot of the franchise launched in 2001 with Angelina Jolie in the title role. The …
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Andrew W.K. will release his first studio album in nine years on March 2nd, 2018 via Sony. “I’m going for the sound of pure, unadulterated power,” the musician/motivational speaker/longtime party champion said in a statement. “Every emotion, every thought, every experience, every sensation, every fear, every joy, every clarity, every …
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“When I die,” Harry Dean Stanton told me once, “people are going to say, ‘I thought he was dead already.’” Typical Stanton – and atypically wrong. Though reports insist that the man actually has died at 91, avid moviegoers know he’s always been around when we needed a Stanton fix …
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Lady Gaga canceled her appearance at the Rock in Rio Festival in Brazil after being hospitalized. A note posted on the singer’s Twitter said she is “suffering from severe physical pain that has impacted her ability to perform.” Gaga followed up that note with the message, “I was taken to …
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Amber Tamblyn had no qualms calling out James Woods for his recent proclamations on Twitter in an open letter she published to Teen Vogue Wednesday. The actress first joined in a fiery exchange between Woods and Call Me By Your Name actor Armie Hammer on Monday after Woods tweeted about …
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With an Americana Awards Album of the Year nomination for Freedom Highway, a recurring role on Nashville, and a feature appearance on a Number One country song with Eric Church (“Kill a Word”), Rhiannon Giddens has had a pretty impressive year so far in 2017. This fall, she’ll maintain the …
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Richard Branson was among the thousands of individuals caught in the pummeling wind and rain of Hurricane Irma over the weekend. The billionaire founder of Virgin Group took shelter with his family in a wine cellar in Puerto Rico to ride out the storm, and he took to social media …
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People only pay attention to content moderation when it goes wrong. On Easter Sunday, Steve Stephens jumped out of his car and shot a 74 year old man, killing him. They had never met, but Stephens filmed the murder on his phone, and posted it to Facebook. In late April …
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