Taylor Swift‘s Reputationreturned to Number One on the Billboard 200 as last-minute Christmas shopping propelled the year’s top-selling album back into the top spot. Reputation added 107,000 total copies to its platinum-plus haul to spend a fourth week at Number One. Swift’s latest LP opened up with three straight weeks …
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Lorde has decided to cancel her 2018 concert in Tel Aviv following calls for the Melodrama singer to withdraw from the gig due to the ongoing cultural boycott. Organizers confirmed to the Jerusalem Post that Lorde had canceled the show, scheduled for the Tel Aviv Convention Centre on June 5th …
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This year, we’ve asked 10 writers to pick some of their favorite TV episodes from 2017 and weigh in on why they were great stand-alone eps and the highlights of our viewing year. Today: Amy Plitt on GLOW‘s “Maybe It’s All the Disco.” It hasn’t exactly been easy to be …
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It’s been a year of extreme ups and downs forJourney. Last April, the group wastriumphantly inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, featuring their first onstage appearance with Steve Perry in over a quarter century. Journey also headlined a successful arena tour and performed at Classic East and …
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UPDATE: Gene Simmons settled the lawsuit with the woman who accused the Kiss bassist of sexual misconduct at a July 2nd hearing, the Blast reports. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Gene Simmons faces a lawsuit filed by a woman who accuses the Kiss bassist of sexual misconduct during …
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Hey, remember that time Donald Trump revealed classified intelligence from an American ally to the Russian foreign minister in the Oval Office? You probably don’t, and who can blame you? It happened nearly nine months ago, on March 23rd, and nine months is an eternity with this administration. But the …
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Bon Jovi‘s forthcoming Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction will certainly come as a surprise to some. The New Jersey–repping band, who dominated MTV and served as the pop-friendly face of the Eighties hair-metal boom, were hardly beloved by critics. A1986 Rolling Stone review of the band’s mega-selling Slippery …
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President Trump launches a nuclear missile and sets off World War III in the new video for Uni’s “Mushroom Cloud.” Uni – the trio of Kemp Muhl, Nico Fuzz and David Strange – released their dark debut single, “What’s the Problem?,” last month on Sean Lennon‘s Chimera Music label. The …
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When the phone rang at the Stax/Volt studios in Memphis in late November of 1967, guitarist Steve Cropper was surprised to hear Otis Redding on the other end, calling from the airport. “Usually Otis would check into the Holiday Inn or whatever hotel he was staying at and then he’d …
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Seminal Brooklyn hip-hop trio Digable Planets will celebrate the 25th anniversary of their debut album, Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space), with a new reissue package out February 23rd via Light In the Attic. The album will be re-released as a double LP, marking the first time Reachin’ …
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