The Magnetic Fields will celebrate their 25th anniversary of their indie rock epic 69 Love Songs with a 2024 tour where the reunited band will perform the album in its entirety. Yes, all 69 songs, over the course of two nights. The Stephin Merritt-led outfit will bring back the album’s …
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Lauren Boebert’s resolution to impeach President Joe Biden caused drama with fellow MAGA representative Marjorie Taylor Greene on Wednesday, and now Republican leadership has thrown a bucket of ice water on the ploy. Republicans punted the resolution to the House Judiciary and Homeland Security committees in a party-line vote on …
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It’s a week after producer EvilGiane got the biggest placement of his career with Kendrick Lamar and Baby Keem’s “The Hillbillies,” and he’s ready to stop talking about it and get back to making beats. While sitting down for lunch at Brooklyn’s Seawolf, he tells me he hasn’t been able …
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The Titan submersible implosion was heard by a top secret U.S. Navy acoustic detection system, officials told the Wall Street Journal. The system, designed to detect enemy submarines, first heard the sub implosion hours after the craft began its journey, per the report. “The U.S. Navy conducted an analysis of …
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The musical seed Justin Vernon planted that eventually sprouted into Bon Iver is now available on streaming. The record, an original song titled “Hazelton” and recorded in the mid-2000s for the musician’s third solo album, functioned as the starting point for “Holocene,” the pivotal single from Bon Iver’s second studio …
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The legal battle between Dr. Luke and Kesha that has lasted nearly a decade is over. On Thursday, Kesha announced that she and the producer had reached a “resolution” of the defamation lawsuit against her that was set to go to trial next month. She had accused Luke of drugging …
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On Wednesday afternoon in Denver, four-time NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers sat down for a conversation with author and podcaster Aubrey Marcus at Psychedelic Science 2023, a conference on the applications of drugs including psilocybin, ketamine, and MDMA that has drawn over 12,000 attendees. In this particular event, titled “How Psychedelics …
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The story of Stax records has long been smoothed over andsculptedinto a neat bundle of Southern aphorism and marketing copy: The Memphis home of “Soul Man” andShaftand the Staple Singers was the more authentic (insert adjective like “gritty” or “greasy” or “Southern-fried” here), counterpart to the pop-oriented Motown; a rare …
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Four years ago, 15-year-old Victor Wembanyama celebrated his appearance in the FIBA Europe U16 European Championship tournament by opening an official Instagram account, one that he or his people (or both) maintain to this day. The first post was a small collage of him and his teammates playing for Team …
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Less than a month after announcing a short September trek dubbed “the Getaway Shows,” Gorillaz have called off all the shows, per an e-mail sent to those who had already bought tickets. The shows were meant to support the band’s latest album Cracker Island, which came out earlier this year. …
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