In her seventies, gospel-R&B legend Mavis Staples has emerged as perhaps the hardest-working singer of her generation, releasing more albums of original material over the past decade (five, and counting) than even her famously prolific contemporary Willie Nelson. Beginning with the rebirth of 2010’s You Are Not Alone, Staples has …
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Stephen Colbert and James Corden marked the end of Game of Thrones on their respective late-night programs Monday. Colbert opened The Late Show with an “extended” version of Brienne of Tarth’s controversial final scene, in which she plays up Jaime Lannister’s exploits in the Book of Brothers, despite the way …
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Vampire Weekend hitch a ride with a desert dweller named Wade in the video for “This Life,” which appears on the band’s latest album, Father of the Bride. Directed my Emmett Malloy, the clip stars Kyle Field of the band Little Wings as Wade, an Uber-driver of sorts who picks …
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Slipknot staged their first concert in nearly three years Friday on Jimmy Kimmel Live, where the band played new single “Unsainted” and 2018’s “All Out Life” for the first time live. Slipknot’s Kimmel mini-set, the band’s first live gig since November 2016, follows the announcement earlier this week of their …
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Lady Antebellum have returned with the new song “What If I Never Get Over You,” the multi-Platinum trio’s debut under a new agreement with Big Machine Label Group. The single is the group’s first new music since 2017’s Heart Break, their final album with longtime label home Capitol Nashville. Nodding …
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Samantha Bee spoke with California Senator and 2020 presidential hopeful Kamala Harris about her plan to improve pay among public school teachers on Full Frontal Wednesday. As Harris noted, teachers make, on average, 11 percent less than similarly college educated professionals, and the meager wages are causing people to leave …
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As the director of publicity and marketing at Payday Records in the early 1990s, Vikki Tobak worked with acts like Jay-Z and Gang Starr as they were beginning their careers. “There was this inflection point where hip-hop started to realize its power,” Tobak says. “[Artists] realized that images — what …
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The Grand Ole Opry is returning to Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival for the second consecutive year, bringing a diverse lineup of performers to Manchester, Tennessee, on the festival’s opening night, Thursday, June 13th. Hosted once again by Opry members Old Crow Medicine Show — who will also perform — …
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Paul McCartney remembered his longtime friend and fellow animal lover, Doris Day. The legendary singer and actress died Monday at age 97 after contracting pneumonia. “She was a true star in more ways than one,” he wrote on his website. One of those ways was as a lifelong animal welfare …
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Another season of Saturday Night Live is winding down, and looking back, it’s hard to figure out a particular through line to describe the past year of the show. If there’s one, it’s that the show has finally decided during the second half of Season 44 that simply showing clips …
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