Got a few seconds? Then lend your ears — you might just have the answer to a question that has perplexed forensic audio obsessives for years. Before the days of apps like Shazam, trying to identify an unfamiliar song was a team effort. WatZatSong, a social network dating back to …
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T HE GREATEST BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU fighter in the world is looking to fight me. “Put your hands up,” Rickson Gracie tells me as he advances. “Like you’re talking like an Italian.” I raise my hands as he lunges toward my head. “Don’t let me touch your face.” Gracie — the …
Read More »Joni Mitchell's Legacy Is Just Beginning
If you want a refresher course on the incredible, unique power of Joni Mitchell‘s music, take a trip back to Gordon Lightfoot’s living room. It’s 1975, and Mitchell is traveling with Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue tour, wearing a black beret and strumming an acoustic guitar on a new song …
Read More »Underground Rap Veterans Paul Wall and Termanology Are Still Full of Surprises
Paul Wall and Termanology are back where they first met, at Brooklyn’s Hub Studios. Before our hourlong conversation starts, various people in their circle shuffle by Termanology’s studio room to greet Wall, the amiable Texan who’s visiting the city to promote the deluxe edition of Start Finish Repeat, their second …
Read More »'SNL': Timothée Chalamet's Troye Sivan Flashes Undies With BoyGenius
During his second stint as host of Saturday Night Live, Timothée Chalamet portrayed a wide range of musicians, from Willy Wonka during his singing monologue to the godawful SoundCloud rapper Smoke Chedda Tha A$$ Getta during a “Rap Roundtable” sketch. And then, seemingly out of nowhere, he popped up in …
Read More »Boygenius Rocks 'SNL' Stage in Suits, Channeling The Beatles
It was a very musical Saturday Night Live this week, as host Timothée Chalamet celebrated the end of the 118-day actors’ strike by singing a portion of his opening monologue as Willy Wonka and then brought back his obnoxious SoundCloud rapper Smoke Chedda Tha A$$ Getta during a “Rap Roundtable” …
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Two years ago, Timothée Chalamet and Pete Davidson went viral for their Saturday Night Live sketch portraying a pair of clueless SoundCloud rappers — Smoke Chedda Tha A$$ Getta and Guap Lord, respectively — otherwise known as Xan Mob, who perform their unbearable song “Yeet” during the show “Rap Roundtable” …
Read More »'SNL': Timothée Chalamet Sings About Actors' Strike Ending as Wonka
Live from New York on Saturday night, Timothée Chalamet took the stage as host of Saturday Night Live and, during his opening monologue, celebrated how the union SAG-AFTRA reached a deal with the Hollywood studios this week, putting an end to the 118-day actors’ strike. “I do feel lucky to …
Read More »Taylor Swift Changes 'Karma' Lyric in Sweet Nod to Boyfriend Travis Kelce
Taylor Swift had a lot to celebrate during her Saturday show in Argentina. Not only does she have six Grammy nominations to be excited about, but her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, was in attendance. To mark the occasion, she changed the lyrics to “Karma,” giving him …
Read More »Former Slipknot Drummer Jay Weinberg 'Heartbroken and Blindsided' After Split
Slipknot split with drummer Jay Weinberg, announcing last weekend that they had decided “to part ways” with the percussionist. On Saturday, Weinberg revealed that he had not anticipated their decision to let him go. “I was heartbroken and blindsided to receive the phone call that I did on the morning …
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