Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and his wife Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, will “step back as senior members of the Royal Family” with plans to become “financially independent” and split their time between North America and England. In a statement shared on Instagram, the couple, wrote, “It is …
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Henry Rollins has partnered with Los Angeles Tourism for a five-part YouTube series offering tips and tricks on how to navigate a visit to the City of Angels. “To help travelers coming in and out of LAX in 2020, we enlisted one of our favorite world travelers, Rollins, to share …
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Less than a week into a dangerous, highly sensitive new frontier of relations with Iran, the Trump administration is already showing its ass. The day after the Iraqi government voted to expel all U.S. troops in response to last week’s drone-strike assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani at the Baghdad …
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Miley Cyrus has reached a settlement in the $300 million copyright infringement lawsuit that accused the singer of stealing her 2013 hit “We Can’t Stop.” Cyrus’ lawyers previously revealed a settlement agreement had been made in a December 12th letter that would be filed “pending payment of the settlement proceeds.” …
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Nineties country music nostalgia has reached its peak with the announcement that Hot Country Knights, a faux band fronted by a costumed Dierks Bentley, has signed a record deal with Universal Music Group’s Nashville division. Bentley, who also releases his solo albums through UMG Nashville, started playing one-off gigs with …
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As the end of the decade approaches, our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast takes a look back at the best songs from the last days of the 20th century, via Rob Sheffield’s list of his 99 favorite tracks from 1999. Host Brian Hiatt and Brittany Spanos joined Sheffield in our …
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This story was originally published on December 9, 2015 The legend goes like this: In 1963, producer Lee Mendelson made a documentary about Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, for which he needed music. One night, Mendelson was driving over the Golden Gate Bridge, tuned into a San Francisco jazz station. …
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Ed Sheeran is dropping his New Year’s resolutions early. Tuesday, he announced that he’s planning to take a break from social media — and work — to “take a breather to travel, write and read. I’ll be off all social media until it’s time to come back,” he wrote on …
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While it’s unfair to compare the two, one could make a case that Eddie Murphy returning to host Saturday Night Live created as much anticipation as the final installment in the Star Wars saga. Having both happen on the same weekend is one of those pop culture moments in which …
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Like Baz Luhrmann’s groundbreaking 2001 romantic-tragedy movie before it, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is a poptastic spectacle with a grab bag of famous pop songs. For the stage production, music supervisor, arranger, and orchestrator Justin Levine expanded its sonic landscape, using more than 70 pop songs (credited to 161 writers) …
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