New York City has partially reopened during the past few weeks, but concerts and other mass gatherings are still banned and there’s no timetable for when that might change. That’s why many people were a little surprised earlier this week when Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the MTV Video Music …
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LeBron James, Tom Brady, Alex Morgan and more examine the signature moments of their careers in the new trailer for Greatness Code, a short form docuseries premiering July 10th on Apple TV+. The clip opens with James recounting a pivotal 2012 playoff game against the Boston Celtics, a team that …
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Tenille Townes likes to say she processes reality through her songwriting. A few years back, the Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada native, who grew up adoring both U2 and Shania Twain, was in the car with her mother and saw a homeless young woman asking for money. She had a lot …
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Megan Thee Stallion has dropped new song, “Girls in the Hood.” The track interpolates Eazy-E and N.W.A‘s classic 1987 single, “Boyz-n-the-Hood.” “I’m a hot girl, I do hot shit … ” she raps on the hook. “I don’t text quick, ’cause I ain’t thirsty/These bitches mad, mad, they wanna hurt …
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Ever since MTV’s The State went off the air in 1995, the 11-member sketch comedy troupe has faced the same problem every time it tries to reform: Finding the time when every member can commit to a project is virtually impossible. That finally changed earlier this year when the COVID-19 …
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The Streets has teamed up with East London singer-songwriter Hak Baker for a new song, “Falling Down,” set to appear on the British MC’s upcoming mixtape, None of Us Are Getting Out of This Life Alive, out July 10th via Island Records. The track opens with a simple beat of …
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I didn’t enjoy my weekend with John Bolton. His new book, The Room Where It Happened, is blunt, partisan, thorough, and unpleasant — much like the man. Bolton’s righteous arrogance oozes in nearly ever sentence. His contempt for anyone who doesn’t share his reactionary world view is profound and on …
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On the same May day that the World Health Organization made the announcement that one of the many effects of the COVID-19 pandemic would be a worldwide crisis in mental health, I found my own mental stability challenged by a photo on Twitter. The picture heralded France’s return to school, …
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A thought experiment: What if we lived in a world where the climate crisis directly threatened the lives of rich white guys? How different would the political debate be about cutting carbon and adapting to a superheated world? These questions occurred to me the other day after reading an excellent …
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There’s still no telling when music venues will be able to reopen their doors to large crowds of concertgoers, and Live Nation — the largest live events company in North America — is making changes seemingly in reaction to the uncertainty. In a recent memo obtained by Rolling Stone, the …
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