Many people have found themselves back in their hometowns this year, grappling with a rapidly changing, unpredictable world from environs they’ve known all their lives. For Spillage Village — the musical collective consisting of chameleonic duo Earthgang; nimble rhymer J.I.D; soulful singer Mereba; producers Hollywood JB and Benji; charismatic rapper …
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Although Major League Baseball went crowd-free for its 2020 season due to coronavirus, the San Francisco Giants kept their Metallica Day tradition alive by having the band’s James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett virtually perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” ahead of Wednesday’s game. Since 2013, members of Metallica have frequented San Francisco’s …
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Callin and Brendan Paulhus are driving toward an inferno. It’s mid-September 2020; Los Angeles County has 474 new reported cases of COVID-19, the city is experiencing some of the worst air quality and pollution in the world, and five million acres across the West Coast are scorched due to forest …
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Lenny Kravitz‘s upcoming memoir, Let Love Rule, tells the story of the first 25 years of the singer-guitarist’s life, up through the release of his 1989 debut of the same name. “That journey, full of adventure, was where I found myself and my voice,” Kravitz has said of the time …
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Television, it’s often been said without much exaggeration, was invented to sell soap. And the fall television season was invented to sell cars. As Preston Beckman, a retired network scheduler who presided over the Must-See TV era of NBC and the peak of American Idol at Fox (and now tweets …
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court justice and trailblazing feminist icon who had fought off colon, lung and liver cancer, died Friday of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the Supreme Court announced. She was 87. “Our nation has lost a jurist of historic stature,” Chief Justice John Roberts said in …
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Deftones have unleashed the second single from their upcoming album, Ohms. Their new song “Genesis” follows the release of the title track. The follow-up to 2016’s Gore, Deftones’ ninth studio LP Ohms arrives on September 25th via Warner Records. The title track’s video explores a dystopian world, and “Genesis” follows …
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Mika has announced the lineup for his I Love Beirut benefit livestream concert to aid the people of Beirut, Lebanon, following a devastating explosion that killed over 200 people and destroyed a central hub in the capital city on August 4th. The full lineup for the benefit concert includes Kylie …
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Charli XCX, Laura Jane Grace, David Lynch and more will appear during Bonnaroo’s 2020 Virtual Roo-Ality festival, streaming September 24th through 26th on YouTube. The event will boast a mix of original programming, new performances and a handful of classic sets from the Bonnaroo archives, including the full-length streaming premiere …
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Fred Armisen, John C. Reilly and Tim Heidecker star as three eager astronauts in the trailer for Moonbase 8, premiering November 8th on Showtime. The clip opens with the trio in an isolated desert in Winslow, Arizona, at NASA’s Moon Base Simulator. “I’ve just got a lot on the line …
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