A review of tonight’s Better Call Saul coming up just as soon as I tell you the plot of The Verdict… “All wrapped up in your sad little stories, and feeding off each other’s misery.” -Mike Even by Heisenberg-verse standards, the advancement of plot in Saul Season Four has been …
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John McCain died Saturday afternoon at his ranch in Sedona, Arizona. He was 81. The longtime senator from Arizona had been battling glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, for over a year, and his death came a day after his family told the media they had decided to discontinue …
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In the video for her song “Talia,” King Princess, aching over a breakup, imagines her lover still beside her. As television snow flickers and King Princess’ Virginia Slim cigarette smolders in their bedroom, she cajoles and cuddles, glares at and grinds on her partner. It would be a typical music …
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“This morning my longest friend in this world went home to be with our Father,” Smokey Robinson wrote on Twitter after Aretha Franklin‘s death. Robinson grew uparound the corner from the Franklin house in Detroit’s North End, where Franklin’s father, Rev. C.L. Franklin, hosted some of gospel music’s biggest names. …
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Aretha Franklin, who died on August 16th at age 76, recorded more than 40 full-length albums in her six-decade career. It’s a deep catalog, crowded with indisputable classics and hidden gems. Rolling Stone’s music staff is paying its R.E.S.P.E.C.T.s to the Queen with tributes to our favorite Aretha LPs. Next …
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Indie singer-songwritersJulien Baker, Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers unveiled their new supergroup, Boygenius, with three songs, “Bite the Hand,” “Me and My Dog” and “Stay Down.” The tracks will appear on the group’s self-titled debut EP, out November 9th via Matador. Baker, Dacus and Bridgers each helm one of the …
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Songwriter-producer Jim Steinman announced a massive North American tour behind Bat Out of Hell –The Musical, the theatrical adaptation of his album trilogy with singer Meat Loaf. The jaunt launches October 16th with a stint in Toronto, Ontario then heads to the U.S., closing July 7th with the last of …
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Deb Haaland moved around a lot as a kid. Her dad was in the Army, her mom was in the Navy, and she says she attended 13 schools before graduating in Albuquerque. But she has deep roots in New Mexico — really deep. The Pueblo of Laguna tribe, of which …
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More than any other track on his debut album Mr. Jukebox, “Weird Thought Thinker” sums up the quirkiness of Joshua Hedley. The Nashville singer-songwriter and pristine-voiced crooner fully embraces the wandering vibe of the song in a new video. Filmed on the bus, backstage and in the clubs, the clip …
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Barack and Michelle Obama issued a moving tribute to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, following news of the singer’s death. In the lengthy statement, they parsed how Franklin was an integral part of America’s fiber and a reflection of the American dream. “America has no royalty,” they wrote. “But …
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