Lenny Kravitz celebrates his island getaway in the new video for “Raise Vibration,” which appeared on his 2018 album of the same name. The video was filmed in the Bahamas — where the guitarist had been living during the Covid-19 pandemic — and directed by famed photographer Mark Seliger. It …
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Gloria Estefan, Sting, Josh Groban, and more have signed on to Vax India Now, a fundraising livestream event to raise awareness of the ongoing Covid-19 vaccine shortage in India. Hasan Minhaj will host this year’s event, while Liam Neeson, Annie Lennox, A.R. Rahman and Fareed Zakaria will participate as well. …
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Thanks to the popularity of shows likeThe Masked SingerandLove Is Blind,there’s been an explosion of content in the genre that can best be summarized as “people hiding their faces and doing things.” The latest entry is Netflix‘sSexy Beasts,a dating show in which the contestants don prosthetics and makeup to conceal …
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The Go-Go’s have announced five North American tour dates on the West Coast for winter 2021-2022. The shows will be in celebration of the band’s recent induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, as well as the release of their new documentary filmThe Go-Go’s last year. “We really …
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Quentin Tarantino shared some previously unreleased footage from Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood in a new trailer for the upcoming novelization of his 2019 film. The clip boasts its own distinct late-Sixties feel, with a deep-voiced narrator stating at the start, “You’ve seen the Columbia pictures, now read the …
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When University of Chicago scholars Michael Dawson and Rovana Popoff took a survey of American attitudes in 2000, they found that only four percent of white Americans endorsed black reparations. By 2016, a Marist Poll indicated that the proportion had increased to 15 percent. A 2018 survey taken by Data …
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At some point, you’ve probably made fun of one of those cheesy sitcoms about an oafish man with a beautiful, impossibly patient wife. That’s because those kinds of sitcoms have been around for our entire lives, going back practically to the start of television itself. Some of these shows have …
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“It’s times like these you learn to live again,” Dave Grohl sang Tuesday night, with clenched emotion, at the beginning of Foo Fighters’ first concert since a global pandemic snuffed out live music last March. He was backed, at first, only by church-like organ chords from keyboardist Rami Jaffee. As …
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Turns out bipartisanship isn’t dead, it’s just rare. Unfortunately, for tech titans Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Apple, members of both parties seem to have agreed that it’s past time to crack down on the anti-competitive practices that have flourished in the industry. Exhibit A: Last week, Democrats unveiled five bills, …
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This story appears in Rolling Stone‘s 2021 Future of Music issue, a special project delving into the next era of the multibillion-dollar hitmaking business. Read the other stories here. The first time Nwaka Onwusa toured the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, she was blown away by everything …
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