Update Thurs., Oct. 24, 2019: Police have confirmed that the 39 victims were Chinese nationals. In a statement, the Chinese embassy said: “We read with a heavy heart the reports about the death of 39 people in Essex, England. We are in close contact with the British police to seek …
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Weyes Blood has released alternate takes of tracks from her 2019 critically acclaimed album Titanic Rising. Compiled on an EP titled Rough Trade Session, the set is available now via Sub Pop. Produced by Ariel Rechtshaid, the EP was originally released as a bonus CD included in Rough Trade’s release …
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Toto wrapped up the final show of their 40 Trips Around the Sun tour at Philadelphia’s Metropolitan Opera House on Sunday night, and, according to guitarist Steve Lukather, it’s going to be their last performance for quite some time. “I don’t know what the future-future’s gonna be, but I do …
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“Brazen Orwellian doublespeak” — that’s what the Green Party is saying in response to Hillary Clinton’s accusation that their 2016 candidate, Dr. Jill Stein, is “totally” a “Russian asset.” “Clinton has spent her entire career as an asset of Wall Street, the police state and war — the real dangers …
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The Flaming Lips will release their first-ever live album, The Soft Bulletin Recorded Live at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, November 29th via Warner Records. The album features the band’s 2016 live performance of the band’s seminal 1999 effort The Soft Bulletin, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this …
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CNN’s Anderson Cooper in the debate Tuesday night had an interesting exchange with Joe Biden: COOPER: Mr. Vice President, President Trump has falsely accused your son of doing something wrong while serving on a company board in Ukraine. I want to point out there’s no evidence of wrongdoing by either …
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Gordon Ramsay, the English chef who is almost as well-known for his creative cursing as his restaurants, made an unexpected appearance at the top of Spotify’s U.S. viral chart recently. Ramsay owes his musical moment to a pair of rapper-producers from Baytown, Texas: 19-year-old HL Wave and 21-year-old Jhonny Flames, …
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In his 1980 country rock song, “El Noa Noa,” Mexican balladeer Juan Gabriel sang of the magical dancehall he once frequented in Ciudad Juarez: a place where everything and everyone was different, and where you could dance happily through the night. Over the years, the song became embraced by the …
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With veteran Fox News host Shepard Smith’s surprise announcement that he’s leaving the network on Friday, can it still be argued that the network is anything but a propaganda machine for President Donald Trump, in the same way Russia’s RT “news” network bends to the will of Russian President Vladimir …
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Big Thief appeared onThe Late Show With Stephen Colbert Thursday night to perform their song “Not,” from their new albumTwo Hands. The track got a hard-rock spin for the band’s live performance, with plenty of distorted guitar fuzz, manic drums and beautiful, wailing vocals from Adrianne Lenker, who veered into …
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