If you’re going by the bare facts alone, Jazz in Detroit / Strata Concert Gallery / 46 Selden is strictly for Charles Mingus completists. The new five-CD set includes nearly four hours of previously unreleased live material by the legendary bassist, all recorded on a single night in February 1973 …
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Rolling Stone cover star Zoe Kravitz talks about being starstruck by the Spice Girls at the VMAs, smoking weed when she was 14 and how she’s often embarrassed by her ultra-cool parents, Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet, in this installment of “The First Time.” Despite having two famous parents, Kravitz admitted …
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Neko Case meditates on the colossal damage human beings have wreaked on Earth –from environmental devastation to animal extinction –with her profound “Last Lion of Albion” video. Using handcrafted puppets and props, director Laura Plansker frames the clip around the tearjerking journey of the titular lion, who glides through a …
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Robyn delivered a powerful rendition of her Honey single “Missing U” during an appearance on Later… With Jools Holland Tuesday.Robyn releasedHoney this month, marking her first album in eight years. Robyn’s rendition of “Missing U” was packed with plenty of tension as she belted the song’s anguished lyrics in her …
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Pharrell Williams sent a legal warning to Donald Trump after the singer’s “Happy” was played at the president’s political event in Indiana Saturday, a rally held just hours after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. “On the day of the mass murder of 11 human beings at the hands of a deranged …
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Sunday afternoon in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and the neighborhood is being its Williamsburgiest self. Outside a gentrified coffee shop under the grimy elevated J-M-Z tracks, a jaywalking Hasidic man darts into the street, making a dude with dreadlocks in an SUV pump his brakes. Inside the cafe, three white twenty-somethings are …
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Jerry Seinfeld opened up about Louis C.K.‘s return to comedy and the downfalls of Bill Cosby and Roseanne Barr in a new interview the comedian conducted with the New York Times. When asked whether C.K. should be allowed to return to stand-up – often unannounced – after the allegations of …
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Troye Sivan had launched his entertainment career as an actor, but once his music took off over the past few years, he wasn’t sure when he would have time to return to acting. He did know, however, the role that would get him back onscreen would have to be something …
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The history of movies is littered with absolutely god-awful adaptations of great novels — and whether you consider Martin Amis’s 1990 book London Fields a “great novel” or simple one of the author’s stronger works is a matter to be settled between you and your respective deity. But the lauded …
Read More »See Jimmy Fallon Spoof Donald Trump's Midterms Message to Voters
Jimmy Fallon spoofed Donald Trump’s attempt to sway voters before the midterms elections with outtakes from a fake campaign ad, featuring the late-night host impersonating the president. “Voting in this erection is very impotent,” Fallon’s Trump said on The Tonight Show. “I’ve been very busy on the campaign trail. Last …
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