Barack Obama has shared a new playlist featuring music from Aretha Franklin, Beyoncé, the Beatles and more, to accompany his new memoir, A Promised Land, which hits shelves tomorrow, November 17th. Obama announced the playlist on social media and shared a streamable version on Spotify. “Music has always played an …
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Tower Records, the beloved music chain that shuttered all of its U.S. physical locations 14 years ago, has been revived as an online store. After nearly a year of teasing its return via a social media presence, the new Tower Recordsofficially relaunched this week, complete with the return of its …
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The new Borat movie hasn’t even officially come out yet, but it’s already making major waves in the political world due to a scene in which Rudy Giuliani lays down on a bed in a hotel room and appears to put his hand in his pants after interacting with an …
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It’s been a week now since Eddie Van Halen died and the shock is still reverberating throughout the rock community. Rumors of his ill health circulated for years, but nobody in or around the band commented on them at any point beyond a few cryptic remarks from David Lee Roth …
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To mark what would have been John Lennon‘s 80th birthday, Willie Nelson and his sons Lukas and Micah covered “Watching the Wheels” at part of a day-long celebration for the late singer. Sitting on stools holding their guitars, the Nelson family kicked off the Double Fantasy track, joined by Promise …
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President Trump ended a Saturday of confusing mixed messages from White House officials and Walter Reed Medical Center doctors about practically everything surrounding his positive test for the coronavirus by releasing a muddled video statement recap of his current situation that cleared nothing up. In the video, the president first …
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A few years ago, Conor Oberst was attending a Christmas party at Nate Walcott’s home in Los Angeles when he told his Bright Eyes bandmate he had an idea. “It kind of just came out of my mouth,” Oberst, 40, recalls: “’Let’s do it. Let’s make a record.’” To Walcott, …
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Miley Cyrus performed a cover of Billie Eilish’s “My Future” for the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge this week. Although not in the usual Live Lounge studio due to Covid-19, Cyrus and her band picked a warmly lit stage for their performance, which fit the vibe of the Eilish cover …
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Nearly two weeks after the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally drew hundreds of thousands of people to South Dakota amid a pandemic, between 70 to 100 cases of Covid-19 throughout the United States have been traced back to that event. CNN reports that contact tracers in Minnesota have already tied 35 coronavirus …
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Hillary Clinton praised Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s speech at the Democratic National Convention and offered him some advice about debating Donald Trump on The Late Show Thursday, August 21st. Clinton called Biden’s speech “positive and reassuring” and said it distinctly stood out from all the other times she heard …
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