From the moment he snuck out from behind Lauryn Hill’s and Kanye West’s formidable shadows to launch his own career, John Legend has always made it clear he’s an old-schooler at heart. He doesn’t need AutoTune, he takes his piano chops seriously, and he’s overall the embodiment of tasteful (verging …
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John Lydon, who as Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Rotten sneered the anti-royalty anthem “God Save the Queen,” issued a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II following the monarch’s death Thursday. Roughly 45 years after Rotten penned the words “God save the Queen / the fascist regime” and “God save the Queen …
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It started with just a few of them, a random passerby or two milling about Toronto’s King Street in Hawaiian shirts and curly-haired wigs. Then, as if following some primitive instinct, they’d find each other and begin to chat. At one point, four twentysomethings dressed in the same floral printed …
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Eddie Vedder made the incredibly specific choice of doing a quick cover of the Beatles’ “Her Majesty” during Pearl Jam’s show in Toronto on Thursday following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Vedder made absolutely no mention of the late monarch, or her death at the age of 96, before …
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Self-examination has been in the air in country music lately. Luke Combs, the genre’s current biggest superstar, chronicled the sometimes-rocky road to adulthood with his 2022 album Growin’ Up. Maren Morris embarked on her soul-searching Humble Quest. And now, young star Kane Brown’s third album asserts that he’s a Different …
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Brandi Carlile’s new album In the Canyon Haze reimagines the songs on her 2021 LP In These Silent Days through the lens of L.A.’s Laurel Canyon. On release day, Sept. 28, Carlile and her band will bring the album to vivid life with a live performance broadcast to IMAX theaters. …
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A week before Jan. 6, on a Zoom call organized by far-right Christian Nationalists seeking to reinstall Donald Trump in the White House, a man with a booming baritone voice bowed his bald head and began to pray. “We remember the promises of old,” he said, before invoking the book …
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Meghan Trainor has crafted a clever ode to her work-life balance with her new song “Don’t I Make It Look Easy,” the latest single from her upcoming album Takin’ It Back. “When I started recording the album I was learning how to be a working mom,” Trainor said in a …
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On August 28, TikToker @vincemanuele posted a video with the text “Girl at the front of Target in Phoenix keeps saying ‘Marco’ every time a little girl or boy passes her.”In the video, you can faintly hear someone in the background saying what appears to sound like “Marco.” “Human trafficking …
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Patrick Stickles has returned to the bar’s backyard with a Guinness, finished marveling at the absurdity of a Pringles commercial in which a man dies with a chip can stuck on his hand, and is meditating on the interconnectivity of all life on Earth — bound by the will to …
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