Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke recently sat down with BBC Radio 6 to discuss and perform songs from hisSuspiria soundtrack. Yorke, who penned the score for the Luca Guadagnino-directed remake, spoke with Mary Anne Hobbs about the release, which arrived Friday.He also performed intimate renditions of a trio of Suspiria …
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Tiffany Haddish and Jimmy Fallon squared off in an eclectic “Lip Sync Battle” on Thursday’s Tonight Show, channeling James Brown, Post Malone, Nineties dance-funk act Deee-Lite and rapper the Lady of Rage. Fallon opened with a spastic take on Deee-Lite’s signature 1990 hit, “Groove Is in the Heart.” The host …
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John Mayer debuted a tender new song, “I Guess I Just Feel Like,” during a performance at the iHeartRadio Theater in Burbank, California Wednesday. Mayer delivered the song solo, with just his acoustic guitar as accompaniment. The lyrics are a potent meditation on the flaws, anxieties and hopes that seem …
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The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is the latest incarnation of a long-running teen archetype — the half-witch, half-human, all-American girl, fighting to grow up on her own terms and being front and center in an ever-mutating story about girldom and its discontents. Every iteration is different — the Archie comic …
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In an effort to ramp up Latinx voter participation for the 2018 midterm elections, Hamiltoncomposer Lin-Manuel Miranda and Grammy-nominated salsa singer Frankie Negrón announced their support of a new voter mobilization coalition titledRespeta Mi Gente, or Respect My People. By partnering with nonprofit groupsHispanic Federation andAlianza for Progress, the stars …
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Last December, 23-year-old August Ames died by suicide in a park in California’s San Fernando Valley. Ames was more than an adult film actress; she was a legit porn star. In her four years working in the industry, she performed in close to 300 scenes and amassed over 600,000 Twitter …
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Michael Diamond was driving in California the other day, just a nudge past the legal speed limit, when he got pulled over. “So the officer goes, ‘My son is eight years old. He was just listening to “Brass Monkey” and “Intergalactic” this morning!’” He pauses for the punchline. “Still gave …
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Joe Ely and his wife, Sharon, have lived on the same ranch outside Austin, Texas, for 38 years, and in that time they’ve accumulated enough memorabilia to fill an entire building on the property. So it’s ironic that Ely’s latest “lost album,” Full Circle: The Lubbock Tapes, came not from …
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When Rolling Stone visited Mumford & Sons in the studio last month, the band talked about the excitement they felt returning to acoustic instruments while recording their fourth album Delta. On 2015’s Wilder Mind, they largely abandoned them in favor of synthesizers and electric guitars. “There weren’t many boundaries musically,” …
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