Robyn Hitchcock has long been known both for his open-minded creativity and for his love for psychedelic music and imagery. In a new video for his Robyn Hitchcock track “Sayonara Judge,” Hitchcock and director Hugh Hales-Tooke, who have known each other since Hitchcock’s days with the Soft Boys in the …
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David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme, had just finished filming the second season of The Deuce, his opus about the birth of the porn industry, when he got on the phone with Rolling Stone for a wide-ranging conversation. The former Baltimore Sun reporter is 58 and speaks in …
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Logic unleashes a torrent of pop culture references – Dave Chappelle to Michael Jackson to Master P – on the dizzying new single “Everybody Dies.” “Had a lot of dark nights, but, bitch, I been Bane/ I was born in the darkness like Rick James/ Bitch, sippin’ scotch with Chappelle …
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When Swamp Dogg first began work on his latest album, he had only one guiding principle. “I just didn’t want it to sound like Swamp Dogg,” says Jerry Williams, who for close to a half-century has recorded his singular blend of eccentric soul under that name. “This time,” says the …
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If last week you didn’t know there was such a thing as a “New Yorker Festival,” you probably do now, after former Trump Svengali and alt-right Lenin Steve Bannon was booted from the lineup.New Yorkereditor David Remnick announced the un-vitation to staff Monday, after a slew of celebrities pulled out …
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Tenacious D will release a new album and a new animated web show, both titled Post-Apocalypto, this fall. The six-part series will premiere on YouTube September 28th, while the album arrives November 2nd via Columbia Records. The band shared a teaser for the Post-Apocalypto show, which opens with a nod …
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Neil Armstrong’s sons have defended First Man, the upcoming biopic about the astronaut, against claims that the film is “anti-American” for not capturing the moment Armstrong planted the American flag on the Moon. Following the premiere of First Man – directed by Damien Chazelle and starring Ryan Gosling as Armstrong …
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Bill Clinton delivered a moving and funny remembrance of Aretha Franklin at the soul singer’s funeral on Friday, labeling her “the voice of a generation, maybe the voice of a century” and referring to himself and his wife, Hillary Clinton, as “Aretha groupies.” Clinton – who recruited Franklin to sing …
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Late last month, CNN released a recording of then-candidate Donald Trump and his then-attorney Michael Cohen discussing a deal to acquire the rights to former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal’s story of her alleged affair with the future president. Trump ally and National Enquirer owner David Pecker had purchased the story …
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The B-52s have issued a cease-and-desist letter to a Florida circus that used the band’s music during the show’s elephant act. PETA recently informed the B-52s that their “(Meet) The Flintstones” and “The Bedrock Twitch” was used during the Carson & Barnes Circus in Kissimmee, Florida; PETA previously captured video …
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