Since forming in 2000, the Bad Plus have grown from upstart into institution, one of the few contemporary jazz acts to show up on the mainstream radar in the years before the To Pimp a Butterfly watershed. The trio’s early buzz centered on their sometimes radically reworked covers of rock …
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More than 4,000 days have passed since Tool released their most recent album, 2006’s prog-metal odyssey 10,000 Days. It’s a fact that the band is highly aware of, as they’ve labored on a follow-up and humbly answered questions about the would-be record’s progress during the past 12 years. Now it …
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One of the fundamental challenges facing new country artists like the duo Muscadine Bloodline is the simple act of getting someone to pay attention for an entire song. The solution for Alabama natives Charlie Muncaster and Gary Stanton, who make up Muscadline Bloodline, is to keep introducing musical ideas, which …
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News ofCranberries lead singer Dolores O’Riordan’s death on Mondayshocked fans, with the 46-year-old’s death initially classified by London police as “unexplained.”The Irish group hadn’t had a big profile in America for many years, but in the mid-1990s they scored massive hits with “Dreams,” “Linger,” Zombie” and “Salvation.” They were so …
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Only 20, Camila Cabello is already a seasoned veteran of the pop-star wars. Born in Havana, raised in Miami, she blew up with the girl group Fifth Harmony, who formed on The X Factor before scoring superb hits like “Reflection” and “Work From Home.” Although Cabello was the most high-profile …
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Ronan Farrow’s game-changing New Yorker feature, which ran last October following The New York Times’own explosive piece, helped to bring accusations of sexual harassment by media mogul Harvey Weinstein to light. In a new cover story for The Hollywood Reporter, the journalist opened up about the hurdles he faced in …
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At the Golden Globes Sunday night, Oprah Winfrey delivered an electrifying speech on behalf of the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment that touched on the empowerment of women at all levels of society. For many, it was a moment of desperately needed catharsis in response to a lifetime of predation …
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Rose McGowan praises the #MeToo movement and references her experience speaking out against Harvey Weinstein in the first clip for her upcoming E! docu-series,Citizen Rose. “I was in the middle of my second movie for his company, and I get assaulted,” the actress says in the teaser. “And I decided …
Read More »Watch Lena Hall's Stirring Rendition of 'Hedwig' Classic 'Origin of Love'
Lena Hall received a Tony Award for her powerful performance as Titzhak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and the singer and actress is revisiting that musical and several of her influences in the forthcoming year-long Obsessed project. She kicks off Obsessed with an EP of Hedwig covers, released today, …
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Logan Paul was blasted on social media this New Year’s Eve after he posted a YouTube clip of himself visiting the famous Aokigahara “suicide woods” in Japan – a video that included footage of a man who had recently hanged himself. The “shock and awe” that Logan later apologized for, …
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