Bad news for flamenco fans: as of 2019, the Latin Grammy category for Best Flamenco Album has been discontinued. According to Latin Recording Academy President and CEO Gabriel Abaroa, it wasn’t the ongoing discourse surrounding Spanish artists that sparked the Academy’s decision. “The Latin Recording Academy follows a strict Awards …
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Liam Payne spoke candidly about how “mega stressful” being in One Direction had been during an appearance on Jessie Ware’s podcast Table Manners. Payne recently released the solo single “Stack It Up.” During his hour-long appearance on the podcast, which Ware co-hosts with her mother, Payne gave intimate details about …
Read More »'Jeff Buckley: His Own Voice': Inside New Collection of Artist's Journals, Lyrics
In the 22 years since he tragically drowned in the Mississippi River at the age of 30, Jeff Buckley has become an ethereal cult figure. The new book Jeff Buckley: His Own Voice offers a rare, intimate glimpse into the late musician’s creative process and personal life. Co-edited by Buckley’s …
Read More »The First Time: Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington
On Cinema co-hosts Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington squabble over Medicaid fraud and the semantics of murder in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s “The First Time.” The clip find the two comedians in character and opens with Heidecker trying to remember the first time he met a rat when …
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Chance the Rapper dropped a new video for his The Big Day track “We Go High” exclusively to his Instagram on Friday. In the video, Chance goes through the motions of facing his demons and coming out on the other side. At the start of the Elijah Alvarado-directed visual, Chance’s …
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In the midst of the the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) investigation into the vaping-related health crisis, which has claimed 23 lives in the United States as of this week, media coverage of the epidemic has been virtually nonstop. Patients in more than two dozen states have been presenting at …
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Howard Stern is one of our greatest living interviewers, offering the profession a rare blend of candor and irreverence. But he apparently never considered himself a real “journalist” — or, at least, not until Donald Trump‘s presidential run led to people digging up the GOP leader’s often salacious and disturbing …
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The Coolies have announced a third pressing of their debut benefit EP, Uh Oh! It’s… The Cooliesin honor of their late bandmate Kim Shattuck, who died from complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) last week. The Muffs cofounder, singer and guitarist Shattuck teamed with Melanie Vammen, Shattuck’s former bandmate in …
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A review of this week’s The Deuce, “You Only Get One,” coming up just as soon as this hat makes me look like Joan Collins… A very familiar face returns to the Hi-Hat in “You Only Get One,” as Darlene — or Donna, as she goes by once again — …
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On Sunday morning, attorney Mark S. Zaid announced on Twitter that another whistleblower has come forward regarding Trump’s interactions with Ukraine. Zaid also said he is representing both, along with attorney and former CIA official Andrew P. Bakaj. According to a separate tweet from Bakaj, the new whistleblower has also …
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