iLoveMakonnen has always had a knack for melodies; his shaky falsetto and quivering vocal runs only added to the charm of his breakouts, “Tuesday” and “I Don’t Sell Molly No More.” Makonnen’s music didn’t get worse, but the young singer still saw the spotlight dim for a variety of reasons …
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Remember back in 2003 when everyone thought that SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) was going to wipe out the entire planet? The disease reached Toronto that year and 5,000 people were quarantined, bringing Canada’s tourism industry to a complete standstill and draining untold millions out of the economy. Things cooled …
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Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson will return to HBO on February 8th with four more 2 Dope Queens specials. It follows the first run of four specials last year, which were based off their now finished podcast of the same name. Filmed at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre, the forthcoming specials will …
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Less than a week after Future dropped his “Crushed Up,” the rapper returns with a new video for “Jumpin on a Jet,” the second single off his soon-to-be-released LP The WIZRD. True to its title, Future gloats about the joys of private jets on the Southside-produced cut. The Colin Tilley-directed …
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Retro-country newcomer Dillon Carmichael salutes the King of Rock & Roll with an intimate cover of Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” posted in honor of the late icon’s birthday. Presley would have turned 84 on January 8th. Dedicating the performance to his grandfather Harold, who he says “taught …
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) took a break from clapping back against conservatives on Twitter to sit down for a 60 Minutes interview with Anderson Cooper. The freshman congresswoman’s appearance on America’s highest-rated news program, which aired Sunday night, was the first extra-Internet opportunity for Ocasio-Cortez to broadcast some of her …
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When Kristen Roupenian wrote “Cat Person” in the spring of 2017, she didn’t expect the premise — a young woman’s brief relationship with an older man, the uncomfortable sex they share and the vitriol he spews at her after she ends things — to hit a nerve. But when the …
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Netflix comedy series Friends from College will return for its second season on January 11th. The show, which stars Keegan-Michael Key, Cobie Smulders and Fred Savage, first premiered in 2017. The series follows the platonic and romantic relationships of a group of friends who met while attending Harvard. The once tight-knit group …
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Watching guitarist Billy Strings onstage is akin to observing a hummingbird in its natural state. Strings’ fingers zoom up and down the fretboard of his acoustic in an intricate and calculated frenzy. The scene may appear haphazard at first, but he’s in complete control, determinedly chasing that cosmic moment of …
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Danish soul-pop trio Lukas Graham may be the toast of Top 40 radio, but in his latest interview with Rolling Stone,frontmanLukas Forchhammer comes off as down-to-earth as ever. The 30-year-old singer-songwriter and his band first catapulted to global fame with their 2015 smash single, “7 Years” — which not only …
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