The second season of the FX soccer docuseries Welcome to Wrexham poses an implicit question: Can a formerly floundering team recently purchased by two showbiz stars, a team that has made legions of new fans through a breakout TV hit, still be considered a group of scrappy, lovable underdogs? The …
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Oliver Anthony, Papa Roach, and Shinedown unexpectedly linked up for a fully acoustic show — and a joint cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Simple Man” — after the Blue Ridge Rock Festival was upended by severe weather. Blue Ridge Rock was supposed to take place this weekend (Thursday, Sept. 7 through …
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Three years ago, Margo Cilker was starting to struggle. “To paint the picture,” she says, “I was in a super-weird place.” Living in rural Eastern Oregon, the singer-songwriter had spent the better part of the previous year trying to find a label to release Pohorylle, the debut album that she’d …
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Music video director François Rousselet had to fake nearly 40 billboards on the Sunset Strip to create the Rolling Stones‘ new clip for “Angry,” the first single off their upcoming Hackney Diamonds album. Inspired by photographer Robert Landau’s 2016 book Rock ‘n’ Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip — which …
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In February, Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene called for a “national divorce” between red and blue states. Now, she’s taking her call for a schism even further by encouraging states to outright “consider seceding from the union.” On Monday, Greene (R-Ga.) wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that “if the Biden …
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Last year, Tommy Hilfiger returned to New York Fashion Week in Brooklyn after a three-year hiatus — and hasn’t taken the foot off the gas since. This year, head honcho Tommy Jacob Hilfiger and SZA hosted a brunch to celebrate the brand’s Fall 2023 campaign, which stars the Grammy-winner, her …
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TikTok has fixed a mistake that temporarily prevented users from searching for videos related to the Writers Guild of America strike —saying the phrase was accidentally flagged by the app’s filters against QAnon. News of the block was first reported by Media Matters. When the phrase WGA was put into …
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In a simple twist of fate, when Warren Haynes was toying around with what to call the new Gov’t Mule album, the singer, guitarist, and former member of the Allman Brothers found himself in a conversation about Paul Simon with Evan Bakke, chief engineer at the recording studio Power Station …
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The zombieverse was a much different place when AMC’s The Walking Dead jerked and growled to life back in 2010 at what seemed like the crest of a wave for the genre. There was still ample room to grow, with takes both serious (28 Weeks Later) and comedic (Zombieland) in …
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Think about some of the weirdest dreams you’ve ever had. Maybe you were perched on a dining room table while hungry alligators slithered toward you. Or the one where you’re sitting by a swimming pool as various objects fall from the sky. Or that nightmare where a tall, terrifying man …
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