Houston funk-soul trio Khruangbin have teamed up with fellow Texan Leon Bridges for Texas Sun, a forthcoming four-song EP due in February 7th. The collaborative EP began during Bridges’ 2018 North American tour with the retro instrumental band, beginning with a one-off track that ended up yielding an entire EP’s …
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Amazon Studios and Entertainment One announced that they are currently in production on an untitled Mary J. Blige documentary. The film is being directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Vanessa Roth and executive produced by Blige and Sean Combs. The film follows Blige as she is set to perform her sophomore albumMy …
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We’re roughly halfway through His Dark Materials’ first season now. Time for some serious voice-over exposition, don’t you think? “Witches hear the immortal whispers of those who pass between the worlds,” intones an unidentified voice at the start of the fantasy epic’s latest episode (“The Lost Boy”). “They speak of …
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A review of this week’s Watchmen, “An Almost Religious Awe,” coming up just as soon as I’m strapped to a chair in an abandoned JC Penney… Dr. Manhattan, I presume? It’s easy to understand why some fans of the Watchmen comic were skeptical of this show’s existence and its structure …
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Jason Aldean and Jimmy Fallon celebrate November’s most overindulgent holiday —not Thanksgiving, but the evening before — in a Tonight Show musical skit titled “Hometown Bar.” The drinking-night-out tradition is an annual walk down memory lane for anyone who returns home for Thanksgiving, but not all the ghosts encountered are …
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Bassist Alan Davey joined space rockers Hawkwind in 1984 — more than a decade before Post Malone was born — but he felt such a kinship with the pop star’s Number One hit “Circles” that he decided to redo it with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee Todd Rundgren. …
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Bloomberg Newssuffered a major disruption over the weekend. The episode predicts the future of the news business, and the death of the news business. After billionaire and former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg formally entered the race for the Democratic presidential nomination Sunday, Bloomberg agency Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait circulated a …
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Navy Secretary Richard Spencer was asked to resign by Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Sunday. According to a statement from the Pentagon, Esper “lost confidence” in Spencer over a disagreement in how to deal with a Navy SEAL who was accused of committing war crimes and an alleged secret deal …
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President Donald Trump’s “I want nothing” notes went viral this past week — a sheet of paper scrawled with “I WANT NOTHING. I WANT NOTHING. I WANT NO QUID PRO QUO,” which Trump brought to this week’s impeachment hearings. While the notes don’t say all that much, the way the …
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After filing paperwork to qualify for the Alabama primary last week and flying to Arkansas on Tuesday to formally enter that state’s primary, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg filed federal papers Thursday, officially entering the 2020 presidential race. In preparation for his run, Bloomberg also issued a too-little-too-late …
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