After years of free association, Jonathan Lethem’s idea for a new novel was finally coming together. He’d been sitting on themes likeferal children, detective novels and the American West his whole career, and now it was time to bring them to a hard boil. The final touch —after much internal …
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With a name like Real Country, USA Network’s new reality singing competition seems is wading into some contentious territory as it seeks to differentiate between “real country” and, well, whatever the opposite of that is. Premiering Tuesday, November 13th, at 10:00 p.m. ET, Real Country casts Shania Twain, Jake Owen …
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Elvis Presley is among the seven “distinguished individuals” that will receive a Presidential Medal of Freedom from Donald Trump at a November 16th ceremony. Yankees great Babe Ruth and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will also posthumously receive the prestigious award, “the Nation’s highest civilian honor, which may be awarded …
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Regina Spektor sings about quietude on new song “Birdsong,” which appears in the latest episode of Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner’s new Amazon series, The Romanoffs. “Out of the quiet, out of the sunrise, I hear the birdsong give way to sirens,” the singer-songwriter coos over a sparse acoustic guitar …
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Six years after their brilliant reunion album, Anastasis, Dead Can Dance return with their headiest work to date: a two-act, LP-length meditation on the Greek god of pleasure. This record skews more toward Brendan Perry’s side of the duo, with Lisa Gerrard contributing only the female responses to his music, but …
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Hours after Beto O’Rourke lost his midterm Texas Senate race to Republican incumbent Ted Cruz, At the Drive-In frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala — the Democrat’s former bandmate in El Paso punk band Foss — urged the politician to push forward and pursue loftier goals. “I don’t care if [you] lost,” Zavala …
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Full disclosure: This did not go entirely as planned. When Gary Busey was scheduled to visit the Rolling Stone office last month to talk about his upcoming EP and latest book,Buseyisms, in a soon-to-be-published interview, we asked his team if he’d like to record some conceptual videos alongside a straight …
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Astronomers from Harvard University have published a new research letter arguing that a mysterious object spotted in our solar system last year could have been an alien spacecraft. The unusual-looking oblong object was discovered in October 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii and nicknamed ‘Oumuamua, meaning “a messenger …
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Florida Georgia Line officially opened their new “creative compound” in Nashville last week with an industry party. Over the weekend, vandals damaged a structure outside the complex, which is also home to FGL member Brian Kelley’s Tribe Kelley Trading Post, an apparel and accessories boutique. Surveillance video posted on the …
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Roy Hargrove, a Grammy-winning trumpeter and jazz musician that worked alongside artists like D’Angelo, Erykah Badu, Common and Sonny Rollins, died Friday at the age of 49. Hargrove’s longtime manager confirmed the trumpeter’s death to NPR, adding that the cause of death was cardiac arrest; earlier in the week, Hargrove …
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