Brexit, the HBO docudrama premiering tomorrow about Britain’s 2016 vote to leave the European Union, arrives at an unexpectedly timely moment. Three years ago, most of the world was shocked when a slim margin of the country’s population, angry over trade deals and immigration, edged out those wanting to maintain …
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Bradford Cox was 16 years old when he wrote his autobiography for the first time. “The title was The Burden of Time Is Fucked,” he says. It was more like a zine, really —the product of a lonely, queer, working-class kid in Athens, Georgia, reaching out to a future self. …
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In 1994, a 26-year-old R. Kelly married a 15-year-old Aaliyah. In 2001, a sex tape of R. Kelly allegedly urinating on a 14-year-old girl was released to the press. The “Pied Piper of R&B” has been accused of statutory rape, sexual coercion and even maintaining a “sex cult” full of …
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O ne day in the summer of 2017, Daniel Hernandez, better known as the rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, appeared outside a Brooklyn row house to shoot the video that would make him a star, and eventually ruin his life. Against the menacing strains of his viral hit “Gummo,” he and a …
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Two years on from the release of her acclaimed LP Spades & Roses, Caroline Spence is prepping the release of her third album Mint Condition, which will feature guest appearances by Emmylou Harris and Ashley Ray. The Nashville singer-songwriter has received several comparisons to Americana leading lights like Patty Griffin …
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The Chief dishes out some fatherly advice to his sons, Joy Williams puts a new spin on a Depeche Mode classic and Kacey Musgraves teams up with Ronnie Milsap in this list of songs to stream this week. Eric Church, “Some of It” The follow-up single to “Desperate Man” finds …
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“I have decided to run and will be making a formal announcement within the next week,” Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) told CNN in an interview that will air Saturday night. The 37-year-old Gabbard was elected to congress in 2012. She is an Iraq War veteran as well as the first …
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With a sold-out tour alongside Tyler Childers in the rearview mirror and a new album on the horizon, Blank Range have reason to celebrate. They’re kicking off the party with a new song and video for “Radio,” from the band’s upcoming In Unison. A road anthem loaded with pedal-steel punch, …
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When discussing the legacy of 2000s pop punk and emo, one would be remiss to forget the high-octane melodrama of New York band Taking Back Sunday. Founded in 1999, the four-piece would first break the Billboard charts with 2002’s Tell All Your Friends, a gut-punching collection of songs like “Cute …
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Zayn Malik explores love, loss and rebirth through the visual telling of a tragic love story in his new video for “Satisfaction.” The ballad appears on his sophomore studio album,Icarus Falls, which was released last month. While Zayn only appears briefly in the Bouha Kazmi-directed clip, the narrative aptly captures …
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