Julien Baker stops herself to apologize. “I don’t know why I’m now telling you the footnotes of my thesis,” she says, with a typical dose of self-consciousness. It makes perfect sense that Baker has slipped into full academic mode, talking about jazz and “the subjectivities of language” — because, lately, …
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In the great 1993 chess movie Searching for Bobby Fischer, elementary-school-age prodigy Josh finds himself caught between two mentors: Bruce Pandolfini, an aloof master of the game who favors a slow and risk-averse approach to the board, and Vinnie, who hustles tourists in the park and is always encouraging Josh …
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“Sometimes you gotta trust yourself,” Tom Petty sings on “California,” one of the many alternative tracks that never made the original release of Petty’s 1994 masterpiece Wildflowers. “California” is no new revelation: it’s one of several songs from the Wildflowers sessions that, strangely enough, would appear two years later on …
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Gorillaz will launch a new four-part Apple Music show, Song Machine Radio, to support their upcoming collection, Strange Timez, out October 23rd. The first episode will air October 19th at 5 p.m. ET, the second on November 6th at 3 p.m. ET, the third on November 23rd at 2 p.m. …
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Rapper Common, Sudanese-American artist Dua Saleh, and the Southern California band Asiatica are among the artists who’ve been added to AfroPunk’s 2020 virtual festival, Planet Afropunk, taking place October 23rd through 25th. The new additions to the lineup also include the North Carolina experimental outfit Black Haüs, Kenyan rapper MC …
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The promoters behind a Chainsmokers concert in the Hamptons in New York this summer — which drew criticism for seeming to violate social distancing and other Covid-19 guidelines — have been fined $20,000. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the fines for In the Know Experiences and Invisible Noise on …
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Metallica will show off their lighter side this fall when they livestream an acoustic concert that will benefit their charitable foundation, All Within My Hands. The group’s Helping Hands Concert and Auction will take place at 5 p.m. ET on November 14th. Tickets to watch the performance cost $15 and …
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As detailed in his new memoirLet Love Rule, Lenny Kravitz made some notable friends attending Beverly Hills High School in the early 1980s. One of his first friends was Kennedy Gordy — Berry’s son — who would invite Kravitz to his Bel Air mansion to hang out and listen to …
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The Flaming Lips are plotting what they hope will be a coronavirus-safe concert in Oklahoma City where the audience will be placed in the giant bubbles favored by frontman Wayne Coyne. Coyne posted a picture of the potential set-up on Instagram earlier this week, with rows of un-inflated bubbles spread …
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The cast of The West Wing reunites in the upcoming special to benefit When We All Vote, airing October 15th on HBO Max. The special will feature a theatrical recreation of the Season Three episode, “Hartsfield’s Landing,” with original cast members Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe, Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford, Dulé …
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