Karen O and Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton released “Turn the Light” ahead of their collaborative album, Lux Prima (out March 15th). The song features an upbeat groove that pairs Karen O singing about “starry, starry nights” in silky falsetto with Burton’s minimalist synth-and-bass sound. Astute listeners will recognize that funk throttle …
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It appears as though the divorce is final. President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Saturday and blasted former ally and extreme right-winger Ann Coulter. Trump reverted back to a tried and true diss method of his that has come to signal there is no going back–the dreaded demeaning nickname. …
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“I cried,” said Helado Negro about the process of working on his latest full-length release, This Is How You Smile. “It was hard… and I never want to make a record like that again. Not because it was hard, but because I felt the way that I needed to feel …
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A review of this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, “The Golden Child,” coming up just as soon as I give myself a Dickensian backstory… During that dark and strange two-day period last spring after Fox had canceled Nine-Nine, but before NBC rescued it, the show’s celebrity fans came out in force, none …
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Brandi Carlile is cruising down a steep road on her four-wheeler, her teal jacket flapping in the wind as she makes a sharp turn to her home in Maple Valley, Washington, a rural mountain town about 45 minutes outside of Seattle. It’s not an easy house to find — even …
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Hozier delivered a snappy rendition of “Almost (Sweet Music)” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Tuesday. The stripped-down cut is centered around prickly guitar lines and an energetic beat of claps and snaps that steadily builds to a soulful peak tinged with organ and choral vocals. “Almost” is a …
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The armies of Westeros and Esteros prepare for one last fight in the chilling new trailer for the final season of Game of Thrones. Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) sets the tone for the trailer, which opens with footage of her running through a castle while she says in a voice …
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Luke Perry‘s first appearance on Beverly Hills, 90210 as West Beverly bad boy Dylan McKay aired on Perry’s 24th birthday. That was relatively young compared to some of his co-stars (Gabrielle Carteris turned 30 midway through that first season), but Perry had a lived-in face and physicality. And as the …
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The two police officers who shot and killed Stephon Clark while he was unarmed will not face criminal charges. In a statement on Saturday, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said the officers “acted lawfully under the circumstances.” Schubert said the officers, Terrence Mercadal and Jared Robinet, who shot …
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Few producers had a better 2018 than Tainy, who, over the course of a remarkable eight-month stretch, helped steer three distinct, formidable projects — Cardi B, J Balvin and Bad Bunny’s “I Like It,” Balvin’s Vibras and Bad Bunny’s X100Pre — to Number One on their respective charts. Tainy is …
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