Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio find themselves caught in the crosswinds at the end of Hollywood’s golden era in the new trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The film stars DiCaprio as Rick Dalton, the hero of a TV Western who’s struggling to make …
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DJ Khaled has now released 11 albums in 13 years, and, if nothing else, Father of Asahd is certainly, as the man says, “another one.” As usual, the DJ/hypeman/impresario’s latest 15-track collection boasts a slew of superstar team-ups along with some of the hottest working producers and dares you to …
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Former Vice President Joe Biden kicked off his 2020 presidential campaign with a rally in Philadelphia on Saturday afternoon. Flanking the stage were screens and a podium sign flashing the word “United.“ In a sometimes rambling speech, Biden tried to carve out space for himself as the non-divisive candidate. The …
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As Homer Simpson once toasted, “To alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.”Thomas Rhett echoes part of that sentiment in his celebratory new song “Beer Can’t Fix,” a duet with Jon Pardi. It’s the latest track to be released off Rhett’s upcoming album Center Point Road. …
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Necessity’s the mother of invention, and just as U.K. racism gave rise in the late 1970s to the activist, mixed-race Two Tone scene, so has #MeToo informed a new wave of indie-rock. For a culture that likes to fancy itself woke despite an ongoing tradition of sexism and sexual predation, …
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Former Congressman Allen West, a board member of the National Rifle Association, released an extraordinary statement Tuesday blasting a “cabal of cronyism” within the NRA and demanding the resignation of the organization’s longtime honcho, Wayne LaPierre. “It sickens me to publicly make this statement,” West writes on his website, The …
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Nominees for the 2019 Americana Honors & Awards were announced Tuesday afternoon, with multiple women being recognized in the top categories. The Milk Carton Kids (and, later, Mavis Staples) read the names of the nominees during a rehearsal for the “Mavis & Friends: Celebrating 80 Years of Mavis Staples” concert …
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Jessi Colter, the first lady of the Outlaw Country movement, has a new album on the way, one that pairs her up with a contemporary country rebel in Margo Price. According to a series of tweets by the artists, Price spent a week in May in Nashville producing Colter’s latest …
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A review of “I Hope You Like Missionary!”, this week’s Killing Eve, coming up just as soon as I get a watch with a laser in it… We’re in a very strange point of the story, aren’t we? Over the past half-season, Villanelle has gone from a hounded fugitive, to, …
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Calling all single ladies: Puerto Rican wunderkind Lunay has dropped a brand new video for the “Soltera” remix, co-starring reggaeton titans Daddy Yankee and Bad Bunny. Set in a luxe neon nightclub, the new video follows the playboys as they crash a bachelorette party and sing praises of women who …
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