EDITORS’ PICK: Christine & the Queens, Chris “Chrisis an LP doubled,”writes Will Hermes. “First, there’s a mostly English-language set, with heavily accented lyrics, charmingly off-kilter syntax, and polyglot asides. ‘Let me taste/On a butch babe in LA,’ she pleads on‘Damn (What A Woman Must Do),’lamenting the extremes of ‘what must …
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In a surprise appearance on Chicago’s WGCI 107.5 Wednesday morning, Kanye West walked back the heel turn he embarked on this summer when he aligned himself with President Trump and posited that slavery was a choice. The rapper spoke unguardedly and issued a long-awaited apology for his infamous slavery comments …
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Louis C.K. performed an unannounced, 15-minute set at the Comedy Cellar in New York on Sunday night, marking his stage return after admitting last year to sexual misconduct against multiple women. C.K. appeared around 11 p.m. ET, with the crowd of roughly 115 offering an immediate ovation, club owner Noam …
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Sharp Objects, the riveting HBO miniseries starring Amy Adams as an alcoholic cutter returning to her Missouri hometown to report on a pair of child murders, was one of the TV highlights of the summer. Much of its creative success can be attributed to the work of Adams and the …
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Pearl Jam promoted their recent Missoula, Montana concert Monday with a poster that depicted the White House on fire and a bald eagle picking at President Donald Trump’s corpse. The band’s bassist, Jeff Ament, designed it with his artist friend Bobby Brown, who is known online as Bobby Draws Skullz. …
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On Thursday night, Kanye West returned to Jimmy Kimmel Live for his first public interview since his disorienting run-up to Ye, in which he endorsed President Trump, called slavery a choice and announced that he was bipolar. Over the course of his interview, West doubled down on many of the …
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Tom Petty‘s family and former collaborators compiled a four-CD box set of previously unreleased material by Petty and the Heartbreakers, for release on September 28th, SiriusXM announced. The release, calledAn American Treasure, marks the first posthumous album of Petty material since his death in October. The SiriusXM broadcast debuted a …
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“Subtle” has rarely been a word used to describe U2. But on July 5th, 1993, the band released Zooropa, a surprise EP-turned-LP that traded bombastic declarations and stadium-ready riffs for introspective lyrics and moody electric grooves.Zooropa went to Number One and was initially a critical success, but these days, it’s …
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