The Bellas are back for a third round of a cappella battles and shenanigans in Pitch Perfect 3, with a new trailer dropping Monday. Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow and their crew will return as the Barden Bellas, the all female a cappella team who first brought the world …
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Some Utah residents are working overtime to get medical marijuana on the state’s ballot next year. They seem to have just gotten a surprising new Republican ally in their effort – Senator Orrin Hatch. The state’s senior senator – an octogenarian who is third in line for the presidency – …
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Five Wheaton College football players were charged with felonies for a violent hazing incident in 2016, wherein a fellow student was found beaten and bound on a baseball field,the New York Timesreports.The students – James Cooksey, Kyler Kregel, Benjamin Pettway, Noah Spielman and Samuel Tebos –were charged with crimes that …
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Based on a True Story: That phrase – Hollywood-speak for bullshit – can put audiences on guard for fact-fudging and bogus uplift. Not so with Stronger, a powerhouse biopic that sidesteps the pitfalls of the genre in favor of keeping it real, warts and all. Kudos to a brilliant, hilariously …
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Tom Morello, Heart‘s Nancy Wilson, Brandi Carlile and more delivered a rousing cover of John Lennon‘s “Power to the People” to close out the Global Citizen Live concert in New York City Monday. The performance also featured M. Ward, Valerie Simpson, Liv Warfield and Paul Shaffer. Vocal duties were split …
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By the time Cameron Crowe made Singles in 1992, the 35-year-old director was already a decade into his career’s second act. A former journalist for Rolling Stone, he’d pivoted towards the movies after adapting his book about going undercoverat a Los Angeles high school – Fast Times at Ridgemont High …
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This rap-rock supergroup – featuring Public Enemy’s Chuck D and DJ Lord, Rage Against the Machine‘s Tom Morello, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk, and Cypress Hill’s B-Real – revved up old PE and RATM classics on their debut 2016 EP. The band’s first full-length contains 12 hardrocking lefty diatribes against …
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News tends to spread quickly in small towns, a fact of life that Lee Brice – a native of Sumter, South Carolina – has witnessed firsthand. In Brice’s new song “Rumor,” that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A sultry, R&B-tinged number that suits Brice’s burly growl, “Rumor” recalls Bonnie Raitt’s …
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Granger Smith is a man on the move, and his latest is the announcement for When the Good Guys Win, out October 27th. Comprised of 14 tracks, the album includes Smith’s latest single, the biographical “Happens Like That.” But for fans of his redneck alter ego Earl Dibbles, Jr., he’s …
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club return to their trademark sound – scuzzy bass, slurry, heavily processed vocals and shrieking guitars – on “Little Thing Gone Wild,” the caustic first taste of their upcoming Wrong Creatures album. Each member battles for the listener’s attention in “Little Thing Gone Wild.” Leah Shapiro smacks …
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