Chris Martin performed Coldplay tracks, covered David Bowie and answered fans’ questions on Instagram Live on Monday. The broadcast is the first installment of Together, at Home,in which artists perform virtually on the platform in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. “Maybe 9/11 was the last time I felt like …
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Peter Jackson‘s eagerly awaited The Beatles: Get Back, a new documentary on the band during its final year, will be released in theaters by Disney on September 4. Culled from 55 hours of footage shot in early 1969, as the Beatles were recording what would become Let It Be, the …
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The Dixie Chicks have been unwelcome on country radio for 17 years. It defies common sense that programmers would turn their back on a million-selling, arena-filling, Grammy-winning group, but that was exactly what happened after the band told a London crowd they were against President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq …
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Before reuniting Bikini Kill in 2019, Kathleen Hanna pulled together members of her other band, Le Tigre, to throw their support behind Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016. “I’m with her/To the top/She’s with us /We won’t stop,” Hanna sang, decked out in a red pantsuit. In case you …
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Bob Weir and Wolf Bros performed a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR, covering Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead. Weir and Wolf Bros — drummer Jay Lane and bassist Don Was — kicked off with “Only a River,” a solo track Weir released on 2016’s Blue Mountain. Then they launched …
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A review of the latest episode of Better Call Saul, “50% Off,” coming up just as soon as I learn my sevens on the times table… “Mr. Varga. Long time, no see.” —Jimmy You may remember that the very first episode of Better Call Saul ended with Tuco Salamanca sticking …
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Bob Seger dropped a lyric video for the title track to Against the Wind, which turns 40 years old Friday. The clip follows the lyric video for “Night Moves,” on his newly launched YouTube channel. Classic Seger imagery — animated horses, motorcycles, and vast American highways — flash across the …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF8REpfdiFk Beef House Meet the Beef Boys, TV’s newest (and perhaps strangest) sitcom family with Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim at the helm. While the multi-camera aesthetic and canned laughter give nods to sitcoms likeFull House,the goings-on of the Beef Boys’ household are a far cry from that of the …
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It shouldn’t be difficult to determine who is winning this. Bernie Sanders is the only candidate who has shown the ability thus far to form any kind of firm base within the Democratic electorate —younger voters who may find him personally popular even more so than a platform that Republicans …
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Hagiography usually waits until someone has died, but Mitt Romney is still very much alive. In the Senate’s final vote to acquit Donald Trump of all charges, Romney became the first Senator to vote to convict and remove from office a president of their own party, with the Utah Republican …
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