The media business is built around the fact that your attention is worth money. TV news and other forms of media are incentivized to capture and hold your attention. Whether through scrolling, watching talking heads, perusing clickbait articles or something else, their content is designed to keep you locked in. …
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Joan Baez reflects on her 60-year career in the trailer for the new documentary Joan Baez I Am a Noise. “I don’t think anybody at a young age who gets famous has the slightest idea that it’ll ever end,” she says as footage of her walking through a field now …
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Writer and journalist Hunter S. Thompson’sfabled daily routinewas first published in a stylized account of the writer’s life by E. Jean Carroll. Part biography, part fiction, how much of it is actually true matters little in an account of Thompson, for his part as much man as myth, who was …
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Bob Dylan will mark the 45th anniversary of his famed 1978 concerts in Tokyo — immortalized on the live album Bob Dylan at Budokan — with a reissue boasting two complete gigs from his Nippon Budokan Hall stand. The Complete Budokan 1978 features the entire February 28 and March 1 …
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This has been a year of major self-reflection for Miley Cyrus. Over the past few months, she’s set new boundaries around her personal life, adjusted her perspective on the judgment she received in her early twenties, and registered her own comfort as a priority over returning to a grueling tour …
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The one thing country fans all want is for Post Malone to record and release a country music album. For now, we’ll settle for the next best thing: Posty crooning his way through a set of country covers at the 2024 Stagecoach Festival. Set for April 26 through 28 at …
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When podcaster Julia Mazur posted a TikTok about spending a slightly hungover Saturday learning how to make shakshuka, the initial response to her video was fairly normal. Mazur — whose podcast Pretty Much Done explores relationships and loving your life at every stage — often posts TikToks cataloging her life …
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Always one to balk in the face of convention, RZA this fall will turn the orchestral concept of “chamber music” — small ensembles playing ornate works — into “chambers music”: a symphony orchestra interpreting Wu-Tang Clan‘s blockbuster 1993 debut Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) live onstage. The performances will take …
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When Star Trek: Lower Decks premiered in the summer of 2020 — so long ago that its streaming home at the time was called CBS All Access, rather than Paramount+ — it seemed caught between two potentially incompatible goals. On the one hand, the animated series, run by Mike McMahan, …
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Joni Mitchell has shared her never-heard song “Like Veils Said Lorraine” from the upcoming third volume of her vault-opening Archives series. The two-minute piano demo, recorded in either late 1971 or early 1972 at Hollywood’s A&M Studios, was inspired by “a piece of dialogue that happened with the real-estate woman …
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