The world is pouring out some cold gin for the late, great Ace Frehley, the guitar spaceman of Kiss. Frehley died last night from complications after a fall, at 74. He summed up the archetypal Seventies guitar hero if anyone did — the space cadet from the planet Jendell. He …
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Haim haven’t thrown in the towel just yet, with the trio dropping a deluxe edition of their latest album, I Quit, featuring three new songs. The group teased the expanded LP last week with the release of “Tie You Down,” a new collaboration with Bon Iver. One of the other …
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There has probably never been, and almost assuredly never will be, someone who’s watched Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders’ transcendent 1987 film about an angel who watches over lonely citydwellers and lost souls, yearning to give up the divine in order to be human, and said: “This movie really needed …
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Britney Spears has issued another social media statement in response to the latest allegations made by her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, inhis upcoming memoir. “To be loved unconditionally and with a naive heart like mine, always being threatened or made to believe I’m the bad one as they profit off my …
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Christopher Landau was confirmed as President Donald Trump’s deputy secretary of state earlier this year, with a relatively strong amount of Democratic support and a reputation as a serious diplomat with bonafides. Now, Landau is creating memes on his official government X account about revoking the visas of a range …
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“This is, like, our 15th time in New York,” MJ Lenderman told the crowd at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre on Thursday night. That’s only a slight exaggeration. This time last year, the North Carolina guitarist kicked off three nights at the 650-capacity Music Hall of Williamsburg in support of his breakthrough …
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In case Bad Bunny headlining the 2026 Super Bowl wasn’t indication enough, Latin music continues to grow at an exponential rate in the United States. On Friday, the Recording Industry Association of America revealed that Latin music generated $490.3 million in revenue during the first half of 2025 — marking …
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Thomas Rhett has righted a honky-tonk wrong with Niall Horan by enlisting him to sing on a new version of “Old Tricks.” “Old Tricks” was originally a duet with Blake Shelton recorded for the deluxe edition of Rhett’s 2024 album, About a Woman (out today, Oct. 17). Rhett happened to …
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F orty-two years ago, Cyndi Lauper told the world that “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” on her debut single. And right now, she’s sitting in a north Brooklyn studio with Gracie Abrams and doing just that. They’re bopping their heads to Rickie Lee Jones’ “The Last Chance Texaco” and …
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The story of Tupac Shakur has been told many times since his tragic death at just 25 following a drive-by shooting in 1996. Yet a life so big and complicated is always ripe for further exploration. Jeff Pearlman’s new biography, Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac …
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