Coldplay’s Chris Martin was joined onstage by a cowbell-totingWill Ferrell at the comic actor’sall-star cancer benefit Best Night of Your Life. The event, which took place Saturday at Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre, featured a solo acoustic performance of Coldplay’s 2008 single “Viva La Vida.” During Martin’s set, Ferrell emerged onstage, …
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers fear there are top White House officials actively working to undermine President Trump’s own marijuana policy — a cannabis deep state, of sorts.On the campaign trail back in 2016, Trump advocated allowing each state to craft their own pot policies, and he’s reiterated as much …
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A few years ago, Eric Idle told Rolling Stone he was working on his “posthumous memoirs.” He’s since had a change of heart. “The only trouble with posthumous memoirs is you don’t get paid ’til later,” he now jokes dryly, on a call from his Los Angeles home. So on …
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Drake and Michael Jackson are heading (back) to radio. Yesterday, October 2, Republic Records announced they will start promoting “Don’t Matter To Me,” featuring Michael Jackson, to pop, adult pop and rhythmic stations next week, via Billboard. The Scorpion cut was originally supposed to be a single this summer. When …
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Michael Stipe, Alicia Keys and Erykah Badu are among a group of musicians, activists and artists who are vocalizing support for a protest against Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation on Thursday. The event called “Bravery Is Contagious” will take place outside the Supreme Court in Washington. “We anticipate a …
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With the 2018 midterms a mere 35 days away, there’s a fury of voter registration and empowerment events erupting across the country: in Nashville, Faith Hill led a rally just last week with the nonpartisan When We All Vote and, on Wednesday, a consortium of local artists and venues have …
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Sharon Van Etten ventures into dark, cinematic dance-rock with “Comeback Kid,” the lead single from her newly announced fifth LP, Remind Me Tomorrow, out January 18th, 2019 via Jagjaguwar. The singer-songwriter, known primarily for her guitar- and piano-driven arrangements, shifts into full-on synth mode with “Comeback Kid,” crooning over whirring …
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Lana Del Rey condemned Kanye West‘s support for President Donald Trump as a “loss for the culture” in response to the rapper’s latest MAGA-touting missive on social media. Following his unaired pro-Trump rant on Saturday Night Live, West turned to social media to post a photo of himself wearing a …
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On Election Day 2016, Rachel Crooks went to bed without watching the results. A friend texted her in the middle of the night. “It was something ambiguous, maybe just the word ‘sigh,’ ” Crooks says. “I knew what it meant, but I didn’t want to believe it.” Weeks earlier, Crooks had …
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Logic kept his promise to “assemble the Clan like Voltron” on his latest album,YSIV, which dropped Thursday night. “Wu Tang Forever” features appearances from RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, Cappadonna, and Jackpot Scotty Wotty. Predictably, the eight-minute song has its highs and lows. …
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