Jack Dorsey, the billionaire CEO of Twitter and mobile-payment company Square, is giving $5 million to Humanity Forward, a group launched by former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, to build the case for a universal basic income. Dorsey, who plans to give away $1 billion of his wealth through a …
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The Smashing Pumpkins‘ Billy Corgan shared a stripped-down performance of his solo song “Hard Times” on The Tonight Show Monday. The original version of the song, from Corgan’s 2019 record Cotillions, is a lonesome but lush country tune that lends itself nicely to a fully acoustic rendition. And the lyrics …
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Dawes‘ Taylor Goldsmith shared a charming set of unplugged tunes, including an extremely apt Willie Nelson cover, in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s In My Room, a series in which artists perform from home while in quarantine. Goldsmith set up in what he described as his “weird office, guitar, …
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Millions of listeners have been coping with the loneliness, moral fatigue, and existential boredom of a global pandemic to the beat of Megan Thee Stallion’s “Savage,” so many that the song took the top spot on the RS 100. Yet overall, Americans have been seeking solace not in synthetic beats, …
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Fred Willard, the prolific and beloved comic actor and master of the mockumentary genre who stood out in ensemble comedies like Best in Show, For Your Consideration and This Is Spinal Tap, died Friday at the age of 86. Willard’s rep Glenn Schwartz confirmed his death toRolling Stone,adding that the …
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The Rolling Stones teamed up with Brazilian DJ Alok for a bouncy remix of their surprise new song, “Living in a Ghost Town,” their first original track in eight years. Although the bluesy song was released in response to the coronavirus quarantine, Alok applied a buoyant dance-music sheen and propulsive …
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Brad Paisley was supposed to launch his 2020 World Tour on Friday in Concord, California; instead, he’ll be performing inside an empty rehearsal hall in Nashville. It’s still reason to cheer, however. Paisley will be joined by his full band all in the same room, providing a welcome break from …
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The Go-Go’s, a new documentary about the all-female New Wave band, will air on Showtime on August 1st at 9 pm E.T. The documentary chronicles the Los Angeles band’s rise to fame in 1981 with the release of their debut Beauty and the Beat and examines their career, history and …
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On Monday night, Billy Joel was one of the few faces lingering in the otherwise largely deserted Times Square. His face appeared high in the sky, beamed onto 12 giant digital billboards in the famously chaotic midtown Manhattan neighborhood. It simultaneously beamed into TVs and internet livestreams as part of …
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Former Black Crowes drummer and current Trigger Hippy member Steve Gorman appears as the latest guest on Chris Shiflett’s Walking the Floor podcast, recorded, as all of the recent episodes have been, during quarantine. Gorman talks at length about his tenure with the Black Crowes, as well as the process …
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