Ty Segall will take on songs by the Grateful Dead, John Lennon, Funkadelic and Neil Young on the prolific rocker’s new covers album Fudge Sandwich. Ahead of the LP’s October 26th arrival, Segall shared the album’s fuzzed-out garage rendition of Spencer Davis Group’s blues-rock classic “I’m a Man.” Elsewhere on …
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Hours after Gladys Knight reportedly revealed that she is battling pancreatic cancer –the same disease that struck her late friend and fellow soul legend Aretha Franklin – Knight’s publicist denied that the singer has cancer. WDIV, a local television station in Detroit, Michigan, reported that Knight said she had “the …
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Since college, grime artist Novelist wanted to make music at Abbey Road, the fabled London recording studio where everyone from the Beatles to Adele recorded their hits. “I remember once I told a teaching assistant in my music class, ‘Yeah, I’m gonna go to Abbey Road,’ and you can just …
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WASHINGTON —Don McGahn, the Trump White House’s top lawyer and unassuming architect of the president’s mission to dismantle huge swaths of federal government, is planning to quit this fall. President Trump announced the news Wednesday morning in a tweet, saying McGahn would leave “shortly after the confirmation (hopefully) of Judge …
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Hundreds of Aretha Franklin fans gathered Tuesday morning to honor the late soul icon, who died from pancreatic cancer earlier this month at age 76. A public visitation began Tuesday at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History in Franklin’s hometown of Detroit, Michigan. The singer’s body was displayed …
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In an exclusive web clip, John Oliver offered a series of “retractions” for mistakes he’s previously made on Last Week Tonight. In lieu of a new episode of the HBO series, Oliver reminded viewers that even he can’t be right 100 percent of the time. “I wanted to take a …
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Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges reunite as concerned mother and troubled son in the first teaser for the upcoming family dramaBen is Back. The brief yet intriguing clip opens with a close-up of Ben Burns’ (Hedges) boots crunching in snow as he walks past a tire swing and up to …
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Sam Rockwell is worth seeing in anything, no matter how dire the circumstances in which the acting dynamo might find himself trapped. But Blue Iguana makes the freshly minted Oscar winner (for his totally worthy performance in Three Billboards) work way too hard to cut through the film’s blatant stupidity …
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Between 2015 and 2017, it seemed as if the the Nigerian genre afrobeats was ready to storm the American mainstream. Drake released a remix of Wizkid’s “Ojuelegba”; Jay-Z’s Roc Nation picked up Tiwa Savage; Wizkid signed in turn to RCA; Columbia put its weight behind Tekno’s great single“Pana.” But despite …
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Sondra Battle was fed up. Every time something needed to be repaired in the Washington D.C. grandmother’s federally-subsidized apartment, it seemed to take an ungodly number of phone calls to make it happen. The mold was the last straw. Last spring, after she says her resident manager refused to send …
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