Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update celebrated Donald Trump’s loss and teased the soon-to-be-former president about his impending irrelevance hours after Joe Biden was named president-elect. The segment opened with video footage of revelers in the streets of New York, Washington D.C. and other U.S. cities, as well as celebrations in …
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Leon Bridges and Grammy-winning New Orleans singer-songwriter Lucky Daye performed their new collaboration “All About You” on Wednesday night’s Late Show With Stephen Colbert. The two sang with a full live band against a multi-colored neon stage and kept to Covid-19 regulations by having no audience. According to Bridges and Daye, …
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Dr. Robert Bullard had trouble selling a book in the late Eighties about what he knew to be true. He had written about a subject on which he’d long sounded the alarm: racism involving a sort of discrimination that is much more silent, a violence that doesn’t come via a …
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AC/DC light up the stage in the new video for their first single since 2014, “Shot in the Dark.” Directed by David Mallet, the clip places AC/DC in their true element — on a giant stage flush with red lights, where they rip through the stadium-sized rocker with ease, conjuring …
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Kanye West talked about his presidential campaign, the coronavirus, religion, his mental health, a possible run for California governor and the “treacherous” music industry in a wide-ranging, three-hour interview with Joe Rogan. “I think very three-dimensionally. I don’t think in the black-and-white lines that I’ve been programmed to think in. …
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As Twitch continues its push into the music industry from gaming, it’s secured another partnership. The company has entered a deal with electronic duo Bob Moses and will be airing their livestream shows from now on exclusively through the company. Twitch has been bullish in recent months on the music …
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John Oliver examined President Donald Trump’s confounding decision to withdraw support from the World Health Organization on Last Week Tonight Sunday, October 18th. As Oliver explained, the WHO has a fairly limited purview and power, but still manages to do a lot, like alert the world to health threats, develop …
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Over 60 years after its release, Chuck Berry’s Christmas classic “Run Rudolph Run” has received its first-ever official video, a festive new animated affair from UMe and the Berry estate. In recent years, UMe has given similar videos to seasonal staples like Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” Bobby …
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On HBO’s addictive drama Succession, actor Jeremy Strong plays Kendall Roy, second-oldest son of media titan Logan Roy (played by Brian Cox). While all the Roys are twisted in their own way, Kendall may be the most damaged. Over the course of two seasons, he’s battled drug addiction, familial betrayal, …
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In 1989’s Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, the rock-obsessed duo played by Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves worship Eddie Van Halen and fantasize that one day he’ll join the band. In real life, the film’s writers hoped to cast the guitar god as a major role in the movie. We …
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