Joeboy’s “Baby,” released earlier this year, is a beam of contentment. “I’m always making really happy music,” Joeboy says, and it has worked for him — “Baby” is a breakout hit, with over 20 million streams this year spread across YouTube and Spotify. But Joeboy changes course on “Don’t Call …
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Nick Cave‘s and PJ Harvey‘s music have always shared a similar gloomy sensibility, but where his was often stark and gothic, hers was ethereal and impressionistic. The two artists’ worlds collided in the mid Nineties; they collaborated on the morose “Henry Lee” for Cave’s album Murder Ballads and dated for …
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“On the second LP, you can really hear the group identity coming together,” Jimmy Page recalled years after the release of Led Zeppelin‘s second LP. While the group recorded itsfirst album in three weeks after a single, two-week Scandinavian tour, Led Zeppelin II was cut over six months on tour …
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After a handful of delays, Kanye West will release his new album, Jesus Is King, this Friday, October 25th. West tweeted the release date early Monday morning alongside a photo of Jesus Is King pressed on blue vinyl. The album’s arrival will coincide with the release of West’s accompanying film, …
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Even with the deaths of our elders today and the 400th anniversary of chattel slavery, we are often reminded that this terrible American past is within the reach of our oral, recorded history. Elijah Cummings, who died Thursday at 68, was the grandson of sharecroppers, the black tenant farmers who …
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A review of this week’s The Good Place, “Tinker, Tailor, Demon, Spy,” coming up just as soon as you get me a glass of hot pig urine… As the John Le Carré-referencing title suggests, “Tinker, Tailor, Demon, Spy” is a Good Place-style espionage thriller. Glenn from the Bad Place pops …
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Elton John did not mince words. In fact, he decided to throw down the hammer regarding the 2019 remake of The Lion King and its subsequent soundtrack, which featured modern pop stars like (Beyoncé, Donald Glover) and actors with varying degrees of vocal talent (Seth Rogen, Billy Eichner) seeking to …
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Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen landed on comic book fans in the fall of 1986 with the force of a thunderbolt, if not that of a giant psychic interdimensional squid. (You kind of had to be there.) The series was, among other things, a murder mystery, an alternate history …
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HBO‘s Succession is about many things: power, privilege, family, kinky May/December relationships, metaphorically laden bed-shitting. But a parody that’s currently going viral on Twitter elegantly boils down the Shakespearean comedy-drama to one simple premise: at the end of the day, everyone just wants a taste of Daddy’s M&Ms. In the …
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Just days after releasing her first new music in five years, Liz Phair visited CBS This Morningto perform three songs in a “Saturday Sessions” mini-concert. The alt-rock singer, who just released her debut memoir Horror Stories and shared an exclusive audio excerpt of her reading it, performed her new single …
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