The New York Times tweet was triumphant, music to #Resistance ears: On the surface, it was a truly bipartisan defeat of Trump. A full 22 of those 68 yeas were Democrats. But every Senate Democrat who’s even rumored to be running for president voted nay. The list included Kamala Harris, …
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Nashville-based performers Drew and Ellie Holcomb have released the intimate video for “Electricity,” the title track from their new EP. The husband-and-wife team, who have released music separately as well as toured together as part of live favorites Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors, huddle around a single microphone and face …
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Christina Aguilera provided patrons at a donut shop with some unexpected entertainment on the first installment of “Undercover Sing” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Thursday. The pop star set up in the kitchen and, using, a security monitor, began to pipe songs about the various customers into the store before emerging …
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Ahead of his massive guitar auction, David Gilmour explains how he fell into collecting instruments and his history with some of the more than 120 guitars he’ll be selling in a new video. The four-and-a-half–minute clip shows him playing the 12-string on which he wrote Pink Floyd‘s “Wish You Were …
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One, two, three, four, tell me that you love me more — Feist, 2007 Since the debut of the iPod in the early 2000s, Apple has been a singular driving force in the music industry. Most of that power stemmed from Steve Jobs’ pocket-sized music player and its attendant iTunes …
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President Trump could have had his wall. In early 2018, Democrats offered to appropriate funding for a border wall — not just some funding, the full $25 billion — if the president would agree to provide a pathway to citizenship for immigrants living in the United States as part of …
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Every now and then, Kathy Kleiner Rubin likes to duck into a bookstore with her husband, Scott, and head straight for the true crime section. She’ll scan the shelves until she spots it: a book on the serial killer Ted Bundy. The Stranger Beside Me, maybe, or perhaps The Only …
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For his fast-paced biopic of infamous serial killer Ted Bundy, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, director Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost, Whitey) turns his magnifying glass to the real-life story of Elizabeth Kloepfer (Lily Collins), a woman who’s struggling with her suspicions about her boyfriend Ted (Zac Efron). Sure, she …
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A review of “The Tattler,” this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, coming up just as soon as I perform “Stop or My Mom Will Ska,” the one song by my ska band, Skalvester Skallone… “The Tattler” starts off in a familiar Andy Samberg key: Nineties clothes and music and a grown man …
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Even stripped down for a two-man acoustic performance, Aaron Lee Tasjan loses none of his rock & roll attitude in a gritty new unplugged video performance of his song “Crawling at Your Feet.” Cut at eTown Hall in Boulder, Colorado, Tasjan is joined by bassist Tommy Scifres on guitar duties …
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