Rare is the politician who will say “I don’t know” about something and mean it, including her own future. That is one reason why I despise the question, “Are you running?” It generally wastes the time of journalists everywhere; candidates rarely say “yes,” even if they secretly intend to launch …
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It’s kind of amazing how much history Cate Le Bon packs into her music. The Welsh indie-rock artist’s great 2016 album Crab Day evoked the incisively loopy post-punk of Pere Ubu and the Red Krayola, the clattering epiphanies of the Raincoats and Lilliput, the Velvet Underground and Seventies Kraut-rock, as …
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The first trailer for Dora and the Lost City of Gold,the live-action Dora the Explorer movie, has been revealed. The trailer features Dora adjusting to a regular high school following her life in the jungle. But soon she and her classmates are kidnapped, and Dora is enlisted to help criminals …
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With the bittersweet “I Still Love You (Now and Then)” from his forthcoming LP Fever Breaks, Josh Ritter addresses a former love who still holds in her sway a piece of his shattered heart. Even as he references a new romance in the mournful ballad’s lyrics, he is simultaneously drawn …
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Pink walks down an improbably barren New York City street and sings about being independent in the video for “Walk Me Home,” a song that will appear on her upcoming album, Hurts 2B Human, due in April. Because it’s a Pink video, though, it’s not long before she’s airborne. The …
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A few minutes before announcing that he crossed the 65,000 unique donation threshold necessary to qualify for the first two Democratic debates, 2020 longshot candidate Andrew Yang tweeted that he thought Nicolas Cage may have sent some money his way. Late last week, I confirmed with Cage’s manager that Cage …
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Logic has unveiled the title to his forthcoming sixth studio album, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. The rapper made the announcement via a video he unveiled on Twitter that features a single shot of him singing an unnamed song, which presumably will feature on the LP. In the new clip, …
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After months of filming Elton John biopic Rocketman you might assume that film star Taron Egerton is an experts in the pop star’s catalogue. But James Corden checked that knowledge on The Late Late Show with a round of “James That Tune,” asking Egerton and fellow guest Adam Scott to …
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Dick Dale, “the King of the Surf Guitar,” has died at the age of 81. California Rocker first reported that Dale died Friday. His bassist Sam Bolle confirmed Dale’s death to the Guardian. No cause of death was revealed, but the guitarist suffered from health issues in recent years. In …
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Pop-rock siblings AJR will embark on a North American tour this fall in support of their upcoming album, Neotheater. The extensive run launches September 20th at Stir Cove in Council Bluffs, Iowa and stretches all the way through October into late November. The North American leg will wrap November 22nd …
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