A review of this week’s The Deuce coming up just as soon as we measure for drapes… “Don’t forget what you are.” -CC “Seven-Fifty” opens in similar territory to last week’s “There’s An Art To This,” with a pimp visiting a local transportation hub and being revealed as less confident …
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The president of the United States is now directly attacking a woman who has come forward with allegations of sexual assault. He is quite experienced at this. On Friday morning, after a week of media elites damning his “restraint” on the issue with faint praise, President Trump predictably used his …
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Most Aphex Twin music since 2001’s Drukqs has been some amalgam of Richard D. James’ greatest tricks: the tripping-over-a-drum-machine skitter, the gorgeous piano dirges, the blissful ambience, the squelchs of acid techno gone feral. The Collapse EP starts with a spasmodic, flickering updates of classic Aphex – opener “T69 Collapse” …
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As their clever name, a tribute to two all-time greats, suggests, Earls of Leicester pay homage with a powerful bluegrass sound dedicated solely to the music of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs and delivered by six of the genre’s modern masters. The supergroup of pickers — Jerry Douglas, Shawn Camp, …
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Avril Lavigne recounts her battle with Lyme disease on “Head Above Water,” her first new song in five years. The power ballad finds Lavigne belting over a steady-building mix of piano, strings, synths and thunderous drums. In the lyrics, Lavigne searches for hope and faith while her body fights the …
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Billy Idol will stage a 10-date Las Vegas residency in 2019 at the city’s Pearl Concert Theater in the Palms Casino Resort. Idol is joined by his longtime guitarist Steve Stevens along with his touring band for the residency, which will features songs from throughout Idol’s catalog, dating from his …
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On Sunday, Chance The Rapper posted a simple message on Instagram: “Good Ass Job,” in big block letters on a pink background. For longtime Kanye West fans, the three words have special and nostalgic significance, as the rapper has long promised to use the phrase as the title for his …
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Massive Attack will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their landmark 1998 album Mezzanine with a limited edition reissue that boasts unreleased remixes and more. The 3-LP deluxe reissue features the newly remastered Mezzanine alongside a disc packed with eight unreleased Mad Professor dub remixes. The remixes were initially bound for …
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FIDLAR rail against a politically fractured, headline-obsessed, technology-riddled United States in their explosive new song “Too Real.” Throughout the clattering track, the indie-punk band call out government corruption, smartphones and EDM. “I’m sick of being in this stupid place/ I’m sick of being a part of someone’s database,” shouts frontman …
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“I hit the crumbling town,” Kyle Gilbride sings on “Future Hell,” the gripping new song from Philadelphia punk band Swearin’. Gilbride sounds lost and leery as he sings, narrating his own stammering journey through a landscape of mishap and misfortune. “People seemed like they were somewhere else.” In the five …
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