If the Trump White House’s “transcript” of the president’s now-infamous July 25th phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky was the sight of the north Atlantic ice peak sitting above the water, the intelligence-community whistleblower complaint released on Thursday morning was the giant iceberg lying in wait to puncture the …
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Aaron Paul‘s Jesse Pinkman tries to evade the law and get his life back on track in the new trailer for El Camino, the Breaking Bad sequel movie set to premiere on Netflix October 11th. The film picks up immediately after the events of the Breaking Bad finale, with Pinkman …
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Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines gave more details on the trio’s highly anticipated fifth album on the “Spiritualgasm” podcast this week, announcing that the album was tentatively titledGaslighter and that it was in partly inspired by her ongoing divorce from actor Adrian Pasdar. The group’s first studio album in …
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Iggy Pop recruited the Roots, jazz trumpeter Leron Thomas, guitarist Noveller and a shirt to perform his song “James Bond” on Wednesday’s Tonight Show. The Stooges singer warbled, eyes closed, over a compact, noir-ish dual guitar riff and metronomic time-keeping from Questlove. “She walks like him, talks like him too/She …
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Green Day performed their brand new single “Father of All…” during an intimate show at The Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles the same day they released it to the world. The punk band played the small gig in honor of their Hella Mega stadium tour, which kicks off …
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Sheryl Crow released her eleventh – and, according to her, final – album Threads last week, featuring a star-studded roster of collaborations. On Monday night, she appeared on The Tonight Show with Jason Isbell to perform “Everything Is Broken,” a cover of a Bob Dylan song from his 1989 album Oh Mercy. Crow …
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The premiere of Kelly Clarkson‘s eponymous talk show is still a few days away, but it seems pretty clear the singer won’t be holding anything back as host. In a new YouTube Q&A session to promote the show, Clarkson went on an extended rant about the current state of country …
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David Koch, the billionaire conservative activist who helped shape modern American politics, has died. He was 79. “It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of my brother David,” David’s brother Charles Koch wrote in a statement Friday morning. “Anyone who worked with David surely experienced his …
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Conspiracy theories follow a basic formula: They’re what happens when the absence of information meets the absence of verifiability meets the absence of oversight. While the first two are effective in helping plant the seeds of doubt, it’s the lack of a reliable, factual guiding force that really helps conspiracy …
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The president’s flirtation with universal background checks and other popular gun control measures has been predictably brief. (We’ve been predicting the president was running another bait-and-switch on the American public for since basically the moment the latest racket started.) In the wake of the massacres in Dayton and El Paso, …
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