Some filmmakers excel in telling stories; Jeremy Saulnier is better at setting moods. Oh, his movies have narratives: man wants revenge recently-released-from-prison killer of his family (Blue Ruin); punk rock band must get out of neo-Nazi stronghold or die tryin’ (Green Room). But what you tend to remember more than …
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Alabama native Adam Hood gets buried alive in the new video for “She Don’t Love Me,” his latest collaboration with fellow singer-songwriter Brent Cobb. “She stole my heart, killed my pride, but she can’t put me in the ground,” Hood sings in the chorus, which proves to be a prophetic …
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There may be no writer alive today who better captures the manic, fevered, paranoid style in 21st-century America than Ben Fountain. His award-winning novel Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, about an ambivalent Iraq War grunt whose platoon will soon be celebrated at the Thanksgiving halftime performance of a Dallas Cowboys …
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Beastie Boys‘ Michael “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz will embark on a six-date book tour in support of their upcoming tome on the legendary hip-hop trio, Beastie Boys Book. Beastie Boys Book: Live & Direct with Adam Horovitz and Michael Diamond will feature a special guest moderator at …
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There comes a moment in every Metallica gig lately where guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo take the spotlight for themselves. It’s listed officially on the band’s set lists as “Kirk/Rob Doodle” – a sort of open-ended “they’re gonna do whatever they want” – and it’s allowed them to …
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Richard Swift’s The Hex – a posthumous LP from the late producer, songwriter and member of multiple prominent bands, including the Shins and the Black Keys – is out digitally on Friday, September 21st via Secretly Canadian, with a physical release following on December 7th. The label previewed the album …
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Cody Wilson, the man who designed downloadable plans for3D-printed guns, has been charged with sexual assault in Austin, Texas, for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old girl. The girl told police that she met Wilson, 30, on a sugar-baby website. On August 15th, she said, she met him in a …
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Will Ferrell has enlisted Jerry Seinfeld, a multitude of late-night hosts– Jimmy Kimmel, Samantha Bee and Conan O’Brien– and an all-star band led by Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith to take part in “Will Ferrell’s Best Night of Your Life,” an October 6th charity supershow at Los Angeles’ Greek …
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Mark Knopfler is returning from a three-year hiatus on November 9th with the release of Down The Road Wherever, his ninth solo album. “The album features 14 new songs inspired by a wide range of subjects,” reads a press release, “including Knopfler’s early days in Deptford with Dire Straits, a …
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When it comes to politics, Dolly Parton often chooses to stay mum on the topic. But in a just-released video the singer-songwriter celebrates one of the most hard-fought battles for American women, the August 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which reserved suffrage rights for …
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