The leaders of Google, Yahoo, Apple, Facebook, and other tech giants filed into the Roosevelt Room at the White House. Opposite them was the top brass of the Obama administration, including President Obama himself. It was a few days before Christmas 2013. The tech execs had come to convince the …
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If your first thought when the college admissions scandal first broke was, “This seems like exactly the type of material that would benefit from an even-handed documentary shedding light on the evils of the Ivy League industrial complex and an educational system that prioritizes wealth and privilege over individual character …
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John Mayer has captured his creative pricess in the music video for his new single “Carry Me Away.” The video for the laid-back, acoustic song showcases Mayer experimenting in the studio, hanging out with his dog and working with his producers over endless hours. The footage offers a snapshot of …
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Listen to an audio version of this story below: When the shimmering, state-of-the-art, $1.3 billion Levi’s Stadium opened its doors in Santa Clara, it was hailed as the pinnacle of technological innovation. Concessions delivered to your seat at the touch of a button! Bluetooth beacons to navigate you with pinpoint …
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Christie’s will auction off a trumpet both designed and played by Miles Davis next month. Commissioned by Davis in 1980, the Martin Company horn features a distinctive gilt pattern showing crescent moons and stars, with the word “Miles” inscribed inside the bell. Christie’s estimates the instrument’s value at between $70,000 …
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Alessia Cara has shared a new song, “October,” from her forthcoming EP The Summer. The melancholy number, produced by Jon Levine and Midi Jones and written by Levine and Cara, is about something special coming to an end. On the mid-tempo song, Cara croons, “Bubble we’re living in/ Setting me …
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Songs from Luke Combs and Craig Morgan about the bond between a father and his son, a track from Trisha Yearwood that parallels her relationship with Garth Brooks, and a love letter to the road from Michaela Anne make up this week’s best country and Americana songs. Caleb Caudle, “Howlin’ …
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Miranda Lambert hits the pits to go muddin’ in her new music video for “It All Comes Out in the Wash.” Taking the wheel of a vintage, white Ford Bronco, the country singer and her friends are fully committed to getting dirty, tearing up a mud bog outside of Nashville …
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Record labels don’t get much more cult than Svart. Based in Turku, Finland, and primarily devoted to the country’s metal scene, the imprint has unearthed many underground treasures in recent years, including early-Nineties efforts from esoteric death-metal crew Demilich and their more stripped-down contemporaries Rippikoulu. But even in this context, …
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The 30A Songwriters Festival will return to the panhandle of Florida January 17th, 2020, with an all-star group of artists set to perform. Among them are formidable tunesmiths who represent a range of genres, including John Prine, Brian Wilson, Indigo Girls, and Tanya Tucker. With 200-plus artists on tap to …
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