Soccer star Megan Rapinoe, co-captain of the World Cup Champion women’s team, stopped by Meet the Press to discuss equal pay and her thoughts about President Donald Trump. The conversation began with equal pay. The US Women’s National Team has filed a lawsuit to earn an equal amount of money …
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The Philly-based band Big Nothing is something of a modern indie-rock supergroup, bringing together former members of Crybaby, Young Livers, Casual and Spraynard. But their sense of recent rock history can’t be denied. On “Carried Away” and other songs on their debut album, Chris, they adhere to what have become …
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In honor of the lesser-known stoner holiday “Oil Day” of July 10th, Jimmy Kimmel Live hosted a weed-themed game show on Wednesday’s episode — quizzing customers in the drive-thru line at Las Vegas’ NuWu Cannabis Marketplace, the world’s largest marijuana dispensary. “Let’s Make a Dope Deal” featured pot-related questions, with …
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Celebratory cover album Tiny Changes: A Celebration of Frightened Rabbit‘s “The Midnight Organ Fight” is out July 12th and Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard has shared his version of “Keep Yourself Warm” ahead of the release. The emotional, ambient song get even more evocative in Gibbard’s voice, revealing …
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Oh Sees have released a psychedelic new song, “Poisoned Stones.” Throughout the track, mastermind John Dwyer’s voice is buried under staccato electric guitars, robotic fuzz licks and a rolling, Krautrock-styled drum groove. The San Francisco band paired the single with an animated clip (courtesy of Eaten Alive Illustrations) that resembles …
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Days after the release of Stranger Things 3, Netflix has pledged to cut down on the amount of smoking seen in their original programming following outcry from an anti-smoking organization. Truth Initiative, “America’s largest nonprofit public health organization committed to making tobacco use a thing of the past,” recently published …
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Singer Caroline Jones, who was on the road earlier this year as part of Kenny Chesney’s Songs for the Saints Tour, enlists a slew of special guests, including Chesney, for the just-released single “Gulf Coast Girl.” The supergroup of backing artists, dubbed the Pelicanaires, also includes Lukas Nelson, Jimmy Buffett, …
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When U2 played an afternoon show at Dublin’s Dandelion Market on August 11th, 1979, they were just four teenagers in a struggling band. They had never played outside their native Ireland or released so much as an EP to the public. But after three years of work, they had enough …
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Logic and Eminem recruit a pair of noteworthy stunt doubles in the video for “Homicide,” the rappers’ collaboration from Logic’s recent album Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. The video’s lengthy opener underlines the premise: An unreachable Eminem won’t be available for the “Homicide” video, so Logic’s manager recruits a pair …
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Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne denounced President Donald Trump’s unauthorized use of “Crazy Train” in a Twitter video the president posted mocking the 2020 Democratic primary candidates. The video, posted Thursday morning, opens with footage of the technical difficulties that marred Wednesday’s first Democratic primary debate and pairs it with the …
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