Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate, delivered a gripping poem called “The Hill We Climb” at Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday. Following performances by Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, and Garth Brooks, the 22-year-old stood at the podium in a canary yellow coat as she addressed the crowd. …
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The catalog acquisition frenzy in the music industry continues to accelerate. Right now, the gorillas in this jungle include Larry Mestel’s Primary Wave and Merck Mercuriadis‘s Hipgnosis Songs Fund, two investment and management firms: in 2021 alone the latter company has acquired copyrights and/or income streams from Neil Young, Lindsey …
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For the past 13 years, Saul Loeb, a Washington, D.C.-based staff photographer for the newswire service Agence France-Presse (AFP), has documented events at the White House and on Capitol Hill, in addition to traveling the world covering breaking news. This week, his schedule looked relatively standard — at least for …
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While our feet were planted firmly in the U.S. in 2020, largely barred from international travel,streaming data shows us our ears, at least, were wandering the globe. Figures from Alpha Data, the analytics provider behind the Rolling Stone Charts, show that U.S. listeners gravitated more and more toward global genres …
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Gwen Stefani has paired her throwback single “Let Me Reintroduce Myself” with a similarly nostalgic music video that touches on the singer’s many looks over the past 25 years. The video opens with Stefani calling Interscope exec Steve Berman to ask for more money for the video shoot, a callback …
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White House staffers have finally found the line they won’t cross when it comes to supporting President Trump. That line is helping ordinary Americans. The Washington Post‘s Jeff Stein reported that Trump told allies on a Thursday call that he wanted Covid-19 relief checks to be “at least” $1,200-2,000 per …
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Last Saturday, the New York Postpublished a story about Lauren Kwei, a 23-year-old paramedic based in New York City who worked during the Covid-19 pandemic. In an effort to make ends meet, and unable to subsist entirely on her salary as a medic, Kwei had started an account on OnlyFans, …
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One more nail is in the coffin of President Trump’s 2020 campaign. The Supreme Court rejected a Texas lawsuit that sought to overturn the results of the presidential election in four states Biden won: Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. In an unsigned order, the court rejected the case brought by …
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Alanis Morissette has released a new remix EP, Such Pretty Forks in the Mix, which features a group of trans-inclusive, women artists reimagining songs from her 2020 album, Such Pretty Forks in the Road. The EP arrives via Epiphany Music in collaboration with HE.SHE.THEY Records. The project features contributions from …
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It’s been a little over six weeks since the docuseries How to With John Wilson premiered on HBO to unanimous rave reviews, earning an instant cult following and a perfect 100-percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and the 34-year-old filmmaker at the center of it is still trying to process what’s …
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