After spending nearly two decades as country music’s most reliable post-Jimmy Buffett escapist, Kenny Chesney has turned to figuring out how to comfortably carve out a role as a respectable mid-career standard-bearer for grown-up universal country,between the distant forty-something nostalgia of 2014’s American Kids and 2016’s unusually meditative Cosmic Hallelujah. …
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Yung Miami is readjusting. She’s only been rapping for 11 months, but is already signed to a major label as half of the duo City Girls, released a critically acclaimed mixtape (Period) and is currently featured on a Number One song (Drake‘s “In My Feelings“). Just as everything began to …
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On August 11th, 1999, the Dalai Lama brought thousands of New Yorkers to Central Park to hear him preach the gospel of nothingness. About 20 years later, a tech start-up called OZY Media updated His Holiness’ concept as a bipartisan bacchanal of surrender complete with false prophets, matching accessories and …
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We’ve all been there. It’s a summer party, in any of its myriad varieties: a house party, a roof party, a basement party, a pool party, a barbecue, a cookout, a kickback, a wedding reception, an engagement party, a baby shower; it doesn’t matter. You’re having fun, it’s nice outside, …
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The dialogue on Letterkenny seems impenetrable the first time you watch it, maybe even the second or third. The Canadian comedy, which Hulu recently added to its library, takes place in a small town in rural Ontario populated by “hicks, skids, hockey players and Christians,” and each group has its …
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If MTV’s long-running reality competition show The Challenge were the NBA, six-time champion Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio would undoubtably be Michael Jordan. But Chris “C.T.” Tamburello would be Shaq. His enormous size, intimidating demeanor, athletic prowess and keen gameplay have kept him a key component of the game across 14 seasons, …
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Metric embark on a disjointed odyssey in the video for their new song, “Dark Saturday.” The track will appear on the group’s upcoming album that’s out September 21st via MMI/Crystal Math Music. Longtime Metric collaborator Justin Broadbent directed the video, which was shot entirely on an iPhone X and makes …
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The key ingredients for any great music fest include a stellar and eclectic lineup and a scenic venue, and the 2018 edition of Forecastle Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, checked both those boxes. Situated on the banks of the Ohio River, where the views at sunset are worth a ticket price …
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Murder can be a message, and the men who lynched Emmett Till in 1955 surely sought to communicate through his broken and bloated flesh. The 14-year-old boy falsely accused of sexually harassing Carolyn Bryant in Money, Mississippi, instantly became both a victim and a lesson. Had his killers wanted to …
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Anne-Marie recruited her “2002” co-writer Ed Sheeran to perform the pop hit in a backstage video. The duogiggle and smile throughout the laid-back clip. Sheeran plays a percussive, palm-muted acoustic guitar riff and sings in unison with Anne-Marie on the choruses. “Yo I love this mug,” Anne-Marie wrote in the …
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