Hamiltonis back.Surrounding the premiere of Hamilton on Disney Plus on July 3rd, sales and streams for the soundtrack to the hit Broadway musical have soared over the past two weeks, launching the album to Number Two on this week’s Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. From July 3rd through July …
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In this week’s quarantine episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Adolph Reed, political science professor from the University of Pennsylvania. Before getting into the details later, at the top of the show our hosts allude to Matt’s recent Substack piece. “I sort of got …
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Retired detective Paul Holes has never read his friend Michelle McNamara’s New York Times-bestselling book I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, about the hunt for the Golden State Killer — despite factoring heavily into its contents. First, he was too busy tracking down the man he and McNamara had teamed …
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Kris Kristofferson turns 84 on June 22nd, and SiriusXM’s Outlaw Country channel is gearing up for the occasion with two programs celebrating the Country Music Hall of Fame songwriter. For the Good Times: An Outlaw Country Cruise Tribute to Kris Kristofferson is a 90-minute live tribute concert recorded earlier this …
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The first LGBT Pride parade — officially known as the Christopher Street Liberation Day March — took place 50 years ago to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall Riot, an uprising against police brutality and harassment led by Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera at the Stonewall Inn. This year, amid the …
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Lady Gaga and Blackpink put you in a faux-VR headset in the new lyric video for “Sour Candy,” their collaboration from Gaga’s latest album Chromatica. Set in a candy-coated and surreal digital landscape, the lyric video places the viewer inside a virtual-reality headset, with lyrics from Lady Gaga and the Blackpink …
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Lil Baby‘s My Turn returned to Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart — an impressive feat for an album in its 15th week. The songs on My Turn amassed close to 74 million streams. Lil Baby’s robust streaming total enabled My Turn to eclipse Lady Gaga‘s …
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Brian Wilson delivered solo renditions of the Beach Boys classic “God Only Knows” and his own “Love and Mercy” during a #PlayAtHome performance for Thursday’s Late Show With Stephen Colbert. “I just want you guys to know that we’re all in this together,” Wilson told the audience from his piano. …
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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison will charge the three other ex-police officers involved in George Floyd‘s death and upgrade the charges against Derek Chauvin — the officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck — to second-degree murder, the Star Tribune reports. All four officers — Chauvin, Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng …
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Rising rapper and singer the Last Artful, Dodgr delivered a boisterous performance both inside and outside her house in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s In My Room, a series in which artists perform from home while in quarantine. Dodgr opened her set in the backyard, crafting a cozy vibe …
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