In the first of several such scenes inMJ, the new Broadway musical about one of the pop’s most explosive and, now, polarizing figures, a fictional MTV reporter tries to get Michael Jackson to open up. Jackson, played by Myles Frost down to the trademark billowy white shirt, curly ponytail, and …
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Only Sebastián Yatra can pack a 17-track album with rock, cumbia, reggaetón, and a Jonas Brothers collab. The Colombian singer’s third studio album, Dharma, is a versatile record that’s sure to bring fans to their feet. The album title reflects Yatra’s own experience of “accepting his reality” without living in …
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This interview contains full spoilers for the season finale of Yellowjackets. The whole first season is now available on Showtime. And then there were six. Throughout its gripping cult phenomenon of a first season, Yellowjackets kept implying that only five characters made it out of the woods a year and …
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Here’s to Ronnie Spector, the loudest noise of the 20th century, the queen of the New York dolls, the ultimate rock & roll goddess. She belted her way into history with the Ronettes’ 1963 hit “Be My Baby,” flexing the bombastic power of her raw young voice, all brash passion …
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Third Man Records‘ Vault Packages have incorporated artists outside of Jack White for some time, from Eddie Vedder to Bob Dylan. Now, the label will spotlight Carole King in the archival live album Home Again. Recorded at Central Park‘s Great Lawn in front of more than 100,000 fans on May …
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Back in 1993, a young songwriter named Liz Phair came out of nowhere to drop one of the Nineties’ defining albums: Exile in Guyville. Liz Phair came from the Chicago indie-rock scene, but she had a new story to tell: the secret life of an ordinary twentysomething woman, grappling with …
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UPDATE 12/25: BTS members RM and Jin have also tested positive for Covid-19, with their diagnosis coming less than 24 hours after it was revealed that BTS’ Suga was infected. The K-pop superstars’ Big Hit Music management announced Christmas morning that both RM and Jin tested positive Saturday; both received …
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A review of the Hawkeye season finale, “So This Is Christmas?,” coming up just as soon as I call you from a Christmas tree… When you add up the individual episode lengths, the Disney+ Marvel shows have each been roughly three times as long as an MCU movie. In theory, …
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In 2006, an international coalition of intelligence agencies were scrambling to prevent Al Qaeda‘s plans for mass murder via explosives made with “Mother of Satan,” the highly volatile chemical triacetone triperoxide. This excerpt from the book Disruption: Inside the Largest Counterterrorism Investigation in History, details how a key member of …
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Nearly two hundred and thirty American dollars. That’s how much former President Trump is charging for a signed copy of his forthcoming picture book, which he is touting as “a must-have for all Patriots.” Leave it to Trump to try to swindle his supporters out of money, and just in …
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