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Questlove was skeptical. In early 2019, the Roots’ drummer was approached by two Hollywood producers who claimed to have 45 hours of footage from a long-forgotten music festival in Harlem that had included performances from Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, and more. …

On the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, Bun B has released “This World,” whose video serves as a capsule of intense, historic protest against anti-black racism. “They’ve been treating my people like they unequal since the slave ships,” the …

A group of immortal heroes are reunited in the new trailer for Marvel’s Eternals, which is set to arrive on November 5th. Eternals was directed by recent Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao and is centered around the titular group of superheroes, who have been secretly living on Earth for thousands of years …

Nicki Minaj‘s Beam Me Up Scotty mixtape is now available for the first time on streaming services. Originally released in 2009, the new streaming version is expanded with new tracks, including “Seeing Green” featuring Drake and Lil Wayne, “Fractions,” and her remix of Skillibeng’s “Crocodile Teeth.” “Bitches act like they …

Before “country music outlaw” became just another outfit for would-be badasses to try on, Johnny Cash made it a job description. But among the seven arrests he accrued during his most tumultuous years, from the late 1950s to 1967, none was quite like the time he was arrested in Starkville, …

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has officially announced this year’s inductees: Foo Fighters, The Go-Go’s, Jay-Z, Carole King, Todd Rundgren, and Tina Turner will join the class of 2021 in the Performers category. Additionally, LL Cool J, Billy Preston, and Randy Rhoads will receive the Musical Excellence Award. …

John Oliver did his best to combat Covid-19 vaccine skepticism and misinformation on Last Week Tonight Sunday, May 2nd. Noting that the United States is still a long way from herd immunity, and that there’s been a significant dropoff in vaccine demand despite plenty of supply, Oliver stressed the importance …

There she is, stepping out from behind a screen and seen in glorious close-up: the vibrant red dress, the half-shadowed face, the untamed tangle of ginger hair. (We stan an icon.) For the next half-hour, you’ll see Tilda Swinton‘s spurned woman — she is merely referred to as “Woman” — …

It only took one instance of public shaming for me to never leave my home maskless again. In April 2020, I went for a jog, bare-faced, along a wide boulevard in my Brooklyn neighborhood. “Wear a mask!” a man shouted, scandalized, as I passed him several feet away. He’d been …

Earlier this week, Action Bronson released his third book F*ck It, I’ll Start Tomorrow: A True Story, which delves into the rapper’s weight-loss journey as well as a period of self-discovery sparked in part by the Covid-19 pandemic. In these excerpts from the book — part-self-help guide, part-memoir — Bronson …