In celebration of his 80th birthday, Ringo Starr is putting on Ringo’s Big Birthday Show, a charity livestream that will feature performances by Paul McCartney, Joe Walsh, Ben Harper, Dave Grohl, Gary Clark Jr., Sheila E., Sheryl Crow and more. To watch the special, tune into the official Ringo Starr …
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Italian composer Ennio Morricone — known for scoring spaghetti Westerns and more than 500 films — died Monday in Rome at the age of 91. His lawyer, Giorgio Assumma, confirmed his death after Morricone fell and fractured his femur last week, according to the New York Times. Morricone had a …
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Last month, Aloe Blacc joined a coalition of artists, managers and lawyers looking to push for meaningful change and reform as protests against police brutality and racial injustice swelled across the country in response to the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and others. That coalition produced an …
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In 1990, Richard Shannon Hoon started filming himself. He seems like he might be any young dude killing time in Lafayette, Indiana — backwards baseball cap, sandy-blond stubble, a slight hint of a Southern twang — an all-American early-Nineties everybro, in other words. Hoon has a girlfriend named Lisa, a …
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In a blow to transgender civil rights, the Trump administration finalized a regulation that removed health care discrimination protections for transgender patients. Adding insult to injury, the rule was finalized in the middle of a global pandemic – when health care access is paramount – and on the fourth anniversary …
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Seattle blues singer Lady A had just gotten off of work on Thursday when a bombardment of phone messages from friends, fans and producers came in all shouting the same thing: Her name had been stolen. Earlier that day, Grammy-winning country trio Lady Antebellum — whose name had been criticized …
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The past few months haven’t seemed that different from the darkest days of 1968 to David Crosby. The biggest difference was that Nixon was a villain he was able to largely understand. Trump is a very different story. “I would paint the villain in darker colors this time,” he tells …
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Barack and Michelle Obama both participated in YouTube’s four-hour livestream commencement event, Dear Class of 2020, held for graduating seniors who cannot participate in in-person commencement ceremonies due to COVID-19. In a clip from Barack Obama’s speech, courtesy of YouTube Originals, the former president highlighted the challenges that the Class …
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In 2017, Kenneth Coby played a bad show and decided to quit music. As Soundz, he had co-written and co-produced hit singles for Rae Sremmurd, Justin Bieber, and Trey Songz. But like many songwriters, Coby harbored dreams of being a solo artist, and he was on the road opening for …
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The long-anticipated collaboration between Lady Gaga and mega-popular K-pop group Blackpink is finally here. “Sour Candy,” from Gaga’s upcoming albumChromatica, dropped on Thursday morning, providing a sugar-sweet club track for all our at-home parties. “I’m sour candy, so sweet then I get a little angry,” Jennie and Lisa of Blackpink …
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