Ahead of Sunday night’s Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, nine-time Grammy winner Dolly Parton was featured in a segment on CBS Sunday Morning, opening up about early adulation, the hidden benefit of songwriting and her personal view on feminism. “It’s my therapy,” Parton said of songwriting. “My ol’ guitar is …
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Virginia Governor Ralph Northam held a press conference Saturday to apologize for the racist photo that appeared on his tribute page in his medical school yearbook, while at the same time saying he is neither the man wearing blackface nor the man in the Ku Klux Klan hood in the …
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SoundCloud, the Berlin-based streaming service whose launch of so many young rap careers spawned its ownmusic genre,upped its global revenue from 2016 to 2017 by more than 80 percent, according to its latest financial reports. The company, however, has been troubled recently byfinancial upheaval. The company’s 2017 accounts, recently filed …
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Samantha Bee delved into the latest developments – or lack thereof – in the ongoing government shutdown and cleverly compared the catastrophic situation to Fyre Festival on Full Frontal Wednesday. In the segment, Bee touched on the back-and-forth between President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the State …
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It’s been six years since Pearl Jam released Lightning Bolt, and they’re feeling the need to write new music again. It’s just been slow going. “It’d be fun to record or even just write a song together,” bassist Jeff Ament says. “I think when Chris [Cornell] passed, that’s really been …
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President Donald Trump announced that he will give an address from the White House at 4 p.m. on Saturday. According to Axios, the president’s speech is expected to include an offer to prolong protections to for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders in …
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Michael Cohen: so hot right now. On Thursday, theWall Street Journal reportedthat Donald Trump‘s former attorney and fixer paid the owner of an IT firm to rig an online poll in favor of Trump as he considered a run for president. According to the WSJ, in early 2015 Cohen agreed …
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One of many unanswerable questions from the past year in Trump’s funhouse is why Rudy Giuliani continues to go on TV and incriminate the man for whom he’s supposed to be providing legal defense. Whenever news about the president’s potential criminality begins to bubble up, you can bet Giuliani is …
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Kanye West reportedly pulled out as Coachella headliner just days before the festival announced its 2019 lineup after organizers would not meet the rapper’s demands that a dome be built on the festival grounds. Billboard reports that on New Year’s Day, Coachella organizers were set to reveal West as one …
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Phoenix have apologized for collaborating with R. Kelly in 2013, writing on Twitter, “We are deeply horrified by the stories of abuse surrounding R. Kelly.” R. Kelly and Phoenix partnered twice in 2013. First, the R&B singer joined the French group on stage at Coachella, while later in the year …
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