So, How Was Your Decade is a series in which the decade’s most innovative musicians answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their decade. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. So you want to make a viral hit: who better to help than …
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Although the majority of tunes on Shelley King’s Kick Up Your Heels shine a light on her fiery guitar and roof-rattling vocals, there’s another artist whose presence bubbles up from the deep, gritty grooves of the Austin-based blues and Americana musician’s ninth album: Levon Helm. The legendary drummer and vocalist …
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Ram Dass — an early proponent of LSD and a spiritual icon of the Seventies who notably inspired George Harrison — died Sunday at his home in Maui, Hawaii. He was 88. Related: Ram Dass Rides the Holy-Man Circus, 1972 Feature Story Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation confirmed his death …
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Young Thug has dropped a new music video for his collaboration with Nav, “Boy Back,” as well as a deluxe edition of his most recent album, So Much Fun, featuring four previously unreleased songs. Directed by Cash XO, the “Boy Back” video finds Thugger joining Nav in the latter’s hometown …
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Jonathan David Washington gets wrapped up in a time-twisting mission to save the world in the new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s new film, Tenet, out July 17th, 2020. Nolan has offered little info about the plot of Tenet, and while the new trailer provides a few illuminating details, much of …
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Daniel Hernandez, better known as the rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, was sentenced to two years in prison plus five years of supervised probation in a gripping hearing in Manhattan on Wednesday, featuring a surprise interruption from a man claiming to be the rapper’s biological father. The 24-month sentence includes the 13 …
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Baby Yoda is still a thing. Like a pretty big thing. The de facto star of Disney+’s The Mandalorian has (5) different related topics on KnowYourMeme.com: Baby Yoda itself, Baby Yoda Drinking Soup, Baby Yoda Turns on the Music, Baby Yoda Tattoo and the obviously questionable Baby Yobama (a Barack …
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Earlier this month, the New York Timesreported that the immensely popular Broadway musical Beetlejuice, an adaptation of the Tim Burton classic movie, would be forced out of the Winter Garden Theater by an incoming revival of The Music Man, starring the immensely popular Hugh Jackman. Many theatergoers were incensed, causing …
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Look, sometimes an entire episode is a big swing and a miss. It happens. It’s somewhat surprising that it happened while Scarlett Johansson hosted, because her previous five hosting gigs have yielded consistently solid episodes. But that’s the nature of the Saturday Night Live beast: Some weeks everything just sorta …
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The day before Taylor Swift’s 30th birthday, she summed up the joy, and turmoil, that comes with being one of the biggest artists in the world. She detailed the backlash and skepticism that came with her success, and how she sometimes gave in to her critics by making music to …
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