So, How Was Your Decadeis a series in which the decade’s most innovative musicians answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their decade. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. This decade witnessed Tim Heidecker, one-half of acclaimed, offbeat comedy duo Tim & Eric, …
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Jazz continued to explode in 2019, shooting off in countless directions. There wasn’t one dominant trend, sound, or scene in the genre this year, but there were clear areas of focus, informal constellations of like-minded players and conceptualists: artists who harnessed the energy of rock, devised unusual instrumental textures, pushed …
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On Monday, YouPorn banned Alex Jones from its platform. No, the Infowars conspiracy theorist best known for his red-faced rants and pushing prepper kits didn’t put erotic videos on the crowd-sourced site himself — thank goodness — but there were reportedly half a dozen videos taken down, both copyrighted clips …
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Juice WRLD struggles with addiction in the dark new video for his single “Lean Wit Me.” The track appears on his debut album Goodbye & Good Riddance. The clip opens with Juice WRLD at a 12-step program meeting, sitting in the circle and joining in to say the serenity prayer …
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Jennifer Lopez will receive the 2018 Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at this year’sMTV Video Music Awards. The singer has also been tapped to perform during the VMAs, which will air live from Radio City Music Hall on August 20th. The Vanguard award recognizes accomplishments in music and film. Recent …
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Update: A previous version of this article states that Drayton met the woman in Los Angeles on the dating app Tinder. According to aNew York Times report, they met when they shared a ride from Uber. Last week, Los Angeles County prosecutors charged Danueal Drayton, 27, with sexually assaulting and …
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After the recent arrest and indictment of Maria Butina, the 29-year-old Russian activist who allegedly infiltrated the GOP and NRA via her gun rights group The Right to Bear Arms, many news outlets compared the story to a “spy triller” or episode of FX’s The Americans. Samantha Bee concurred on …
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John Plummer, founder and co-owner of Bull Run Craft Cannabis in Boring, Oregon, got his first hint that the state was careening toward a marijuana glut two years ago. In early 2016, his company received one of Oregon’s first few licenses to grow recreational cannabis. In June of that year, …
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In the first episode of Sacha Baron Cohen‘s new Showtime seriesWho Is America?, heroped several U.S. politicians into endorsing a program focused on arming children –in some cases, pre-schoolers –with guns and other weapons. And as Politico reports, the show utilized false identities, mock websites and lavish flattery to earn …
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Mac Miller contemplates the beauty of “oblivion” on his new song “Self Care.” The spacey, two-part single previews his newly announced album, Swimming, out August 3rd via Warner Bros. Records. “Let’s go back to my crib and play some 45s/ It’s safer there; I know there’s still a war outside,” …
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