Eddie Vedder, Roger Waters, Dave Matthews and Pharrell Williams were among the artists to “take a knee” onstage Sunday in solidarity with NFL players staging a similar demonstration during the National Anthem. Following Donald Trump’s comments Friday night condemning athletes who stage protests during “The Star Spangled Banner” – as …
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Transparent star Alexandra Billings recognizes that television has come a long way in telling authentic transgender stories – but, she says, there is still a long way to go. “I think that we have taken a step in the right direction, though we’re at a pause right now with the …
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Niall Horan unveiled a melancholy video for his new ballad, “Too Much to Ask.” The track will appear on the former One Direction singer’s upcoming solo debut, Flicker, out October 20th. The Malia James-directed clip finds Horan grappling with lost love as he sings the poignant and nostalgic lyrics in …
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Former boxing champion Jake LaMotta died on Tuesday at the age of 95. According to the Associated Press, which confirmed the boxer’s death with fiancee Denise Baker, LaMotta endured “complications of pneumonia” and died in a Miami-area hospital. LaMotta, born on July 10th, 1921, competed in 106 professional bouts during …
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Alex Williams’ new LP Better Than Myself was already a stripped-down slice of Seventies country when it was released in August. Now the Indiana-born artist has stripped it down even further for an acoustic version of “Pay No Mind” that he recorded for the new Bud Light Basement acoustic performance …
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WWE Hall of Famer Bobby “The Brain” Heenan died on Sunday, the WWE confirmed, at the age of 73. No official cause of death has been confirmed, though Heenan had previously been diagnosed with throat and tongue cancer.Heenan, born Raymond Louis Heenan, is considered by most experts to be the …
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Jon Cooper felt the wrath of a thousand Freaks and Geeks fans, as well as actress Busy Philipps herself, when he mistakenly identified a photo of her younger self in character as White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. The mishap took place Thursday afternoon, when Cooper, the chairman of …
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Three microphones used to record Nirvana‘s final album, In Utero, will be auctioned off via Reverb, with the sale set to run between September 21st and September 30th. The album’s producer, Steve Albini, provided the microphones, an Electro-Voice PL20 and two vintage Lomo 19A9’s. “They’re irreplaceable,” Albini said. “They stopped …
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It’s long past time to talk about climate change. I wrote my first feature for Rolling Stone, about the already observable impacts of global warming, back in 2004. The piece, “Diary of a Dying Planet,” leads with a heatwave that killed tens of thousands of Europeans in the summer of …
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Larry David discussed the drastic changes coming toCurb Your Enthusiasm as the show prepares for its first new season since 2011. OnJimmy Kimmel Live, David cracked that the biggest difference was the way his cast mates insulted him. “Now, instead of a ‘bald bastard’ they’re calling me an ‘old bastard!” …
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