It’s been an extremely quiet year for U2, but that will change on November 8th when they resume their Joshua Tree tour at Mt. Smart Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand. The tour will then head to Australia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines before wrapping up December 15th at …
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Two years after Ministry released their debut album, the major label synthpop LP With Sympathy, they attempted to return to their roots with 1985’s “(Every Day Is) Halloween” a single that celebrated all things goth. It’s a fairly straightforward New Wave number on which frontman Al Jourgensen ruminates on how …
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A little more than an hour after Elizabeth Warren wrapped up a speech in front of an estimated 20,000 people in Manhattan’s Washington Square Park on Monday night, it took me 276 long strides to reach the end of a line to get a photo taken with the senator from …
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Ric Ocasek, the oddball-pop wizard who died on September 15th at age 75, knew how to get the best out of a rock band in the studio. That was true when he was making one timeless radio gem after another with the Cars, and it was true when he gear-shifted …
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Matt Damon and Christian Bale attempt to upheave the race car industry in the new trailer for Ford v Ferrari, a retelling of the Ford Motor Company’s efforts to end Enzo Ferrari’s racing stranglehold in 1966. The James Mangold-directed film – which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and recently …
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Conservatives have long contended that social media giants like Facebook harbor an anti-right-wing bias. And even though there’s basically zero evidence to support that, that hasn’t stopped the social platforms from taking these concerns seriously — often, to the detriment of acting on its other stated goals, such as curbing …
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There are many things we, as a culture, collectively love to do: Buy seasonal flavored beverages, get irrationally angry at our WiFi providers, enthusiastically debate the merits of Jimmy Fallon. Perhaps on the top of that list is engaging in schadenfreude over the downfall of Instagram influencers — especially if …
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President Trump kicked off the 18th anniversary of 9/11 by tweeting a picture of himself and Melania standing side-by-side during a trip to survey the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania. The image is a reminder of Trump’s tasteless, self-serving relationship with the attack and its aftermath, and also that …
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As the 1990s were coming to a close, musician Marty Stuart was newly married – to fellow Grand Ole Opry member Connie Smith – and looking back on a 10-year period that would afford him his greatest commercial success. His final record of the decade, The Pilgrim, while among his …
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Luke Combs‘ latest single “Even Though I’m Leaving” is one emotional listening experience. Written by Combs with Wyatt Durrette and Ray Fulcher, the narrator pleads with his father to not leave him behind at various stages of his life. At first, he’s a young kid, worried about monsters under the …
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