UPDATE: The lateMac Miller‘s recently released Spotify Singles will now be available on limited edition 7-inch vinyl that will benefit the Mac Miller Circles Fund, which provides programming, resources and services to youth in underserved communities. The blue vinyl is available exclusively via Spotify Fans First program. ••• Mac Miller …
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So where were we? When we left off in 2016’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a Harry Potter prequel from J.K. Rowling herself, Hogwarts magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) — the dude who keeps a menagerie of fantastic beasts in his enchanted suitcase — helped capture the dark …
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Not many artists get to experience as many pop lives as Teddy Geiger. She was a teen idol by 16, with a mushy soft-rock hit, “For You I Will (Confidence),” on her hands. At 19, she starred as the romantic lead opposite future Oscar winner Emma Stone in the comedy …
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Jared Polis won the Colorado governor’s race, becoming the first openly gay person to be elected governor in America. Polis, a five-term congressman, faced Republican Walker Stapleton, the state treasurer, in the race. Incumbent governor, Democrat John Hickenlooper, was prevented by term limits from running again. After announcement of the …
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Sarah Rosier of Ballotpedia.com can’t remember a more active midterm election than today’s. Her organization, which calls itself the “digital encyclopedia of American politics,” has been compiling election data since 2007 and has never seen more interest. “It’s the most excitement we’ve had,” says Rosier. “In terms of page visitors, …
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Last Thursday, President Trump tweeted a racist campaign ad and pinned it to the top of his Twitter profile. Aimed at drumming up fear over the migrant caravan, the spot features a Mexican man named Luis Bracamontes bragging about how he murdered two police officers, as well as imagery of …
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Ariana Grande delivers a sleek sendoff to her exes on the singer’s surprise new single “Thank U, Next,” which arrived without notice just moments before the latest episode of Saturday Night Live aired on the East Coast. Grande opens the song by name-checking four of her high-profile boyfriends – Big …
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Vicky Cornell, widow of late Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell, has fileda medical malpractice suit against his doctor,claiming that Dr. Robert Koblin “negligently and repeatedly” prescribed Cornell “dangerous mind-altering controlled substances… which impaired [his] cognition, clouded his judgement and caused him to engage in dangerous impulsive behaviors that he was unable …
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Janelle Monáe returned to the Late Show Friday to deliver a transfixing performance of her Dirty Computer single “Make Me Feel.” The rendition opened in black-and-white video with Monáe delivering a Janet Jackson-like dance routine before the performance of the Prince-inspired song wiped to full color with backup dancers, backing …
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These days, when Ray Davies listens to his band’s masterstroke, 1968’s The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, it’s with “a bit of misery.” The frustration he was feeling at age 23, when he wrote it, is still fresh: The Kinks were banned from playing in the U.S. following …
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