The Kinks meditate on lazy days and mortality in “Time Song,” an unreleased track that’s on the band’s upcoming 50th anniversary edition of The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, out October 26th via BMG. “Time lives our lives with us, walks side by side with us/ Time is …
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InSwedish director Bjorn Runge’s film version of the 2003 Meg Wolitzer novel, the brilliant Glenn Close plays Joan Castleman, the wife of celebrated author Joe Castleman (Jonathan Pryce), who’s just won the Nobel Prize for literature. For him, the win is better than sex, which the lusty lion enjoys quite …
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The Struts indulge their glam-rock fantasies in the new song “Primadonna Like Me” as frontman Luke Spiller sings, “Do you wanna be a prima donna like me tonight? Don’t you know it’s all about me tonight?” The song’s everything-but-the-kitchen-sink production features layers of synths, a Rolling Stones–style guitar riff and …
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One of the U.K.’s most addictive and brutal reality shows, Just Tattoo of Us, will be coming to the U.S. Jersey Shore‘s Snooki and Younger‘s Nico Tortorella will host the American version of the series. Now in its third season, Just Tattoo of Us is one of MTV International’s most successful series. On it, …
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Rajuma Begum heard the first gunshots at eight in the morning. She was hauling furniture out of her family home in Tula Toli village, a small community of mostly Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State, on the western coast of Myanmar. She knew Rohingya had been burned out of three nearby …
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Gangsta rap was already a growing genre when N.W.A released their full-length debut, Straight Outta Compton, but none of the group’s peers inspired the same level of public vitriol or interest. Thanks to the notoriety around “Fuck tha Police,” which the FBI condemned, and their single “Straight Outta Compton,” whose …
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Johnny Depp‘s movie about the murder of Notorious B.I.G., City of Lies, has been pulled a month before its scheduled release, Variety reports. The film was supposed to open September 7th, but is now undated, according to a spokesman for the distribution company, Global Road Entertainment. A new release date …
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CBS president Kelly Kahl addressed the sexual misconduct allegations against the network’s CEO and chairman Leslie Moonves at the Television Critics Association press tour Sunday. “Obviously, this has been a tough week at CBS,” Kahl said (via Deadline). “I’ve had many female colleagues come to me this week who’ve been …
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Teyana Taylor looks back on the start of her career as a fated moment. She was a 15-year-old Harlem rose, singing and dancing in her neighborhood and obsessed with skateboard culture and BMX bikes. Entering the music industry at that age was the furthest thing from her mind until a …
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Fresh off Tuesday night’sconspiracy-charged rally in Tampa, President Trump logged onto Twitter Wednesday morning with a vengeance.Over the course of three hours of Executive Time, the president fired off seven liberally capitalized tweets admonishing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. He delivereda bizarre defense of his former campaign chairman Paul …
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