Janelle Monáe is crying in her spacesuit. It’s early April in Atlanta, and she’s in one of the basement studios of her Wondaland Records headquarters, surrounded by computer monitors and TV screens, one of them running a screensaver that displays images of her heroes: Prince, Martin Luther King Jr., Pam …
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If you’re ever feeling bored with new music, like you’ve heard it all before, don’t give up – just hit play on a Jlin track. The 30-year-old Gary, Indiana, electronic musician is evolving faster than the world can keep up. A few years ago, she was a rising star associated …
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Garbage will embark on a fall tour that celebrates the 20th anniversary of their Version 2.0. The band will perform the 1998 album in its entirety, as well as some of the Version 2.0-era B-sides, during the trek. “Version 2:0 is, in my opinion, the quintessential Garbage record,” Shirley Manson …
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Tina Fey introduced an exhilarating performance of “I’d Rather Be Me,” a song from her ongoing Mean Girls Broadway musical, on Thursday’s Tonight Show. Cast member Barrett Wilbert Weed, who plays Janis in the production, offered an emo edge to the arena-rock-styled number, venting about the drama of high school …
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Prince‘s Paisley Park is hiring an archives supervisor, Pitchfork reports. The late singer’s private estate and production complex outside Minneapolis was turned into a permanent museum in 2016. According to a job listing posted on American Alliance of Museums’ career website, the full-time position is in the Archives Department, which …
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The MTV Video Music Awards will return to New York City, airing live from Radio City Music Hall onAugust 20th. MTV, MSG Live and the New York City Mayor’s Office marked the announcement with a symbolic “moon landing” that took place outside Radio City. The stretch of Avenue of the …
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Deep in the heart of Gilead, a dystopian hellhole that used to be known as the United States of America, Elisabeth Moss offers a prayer. Like all the women in The Handmaid’s Tale, her character, Offred, a prisoner and a slave. She remembers a few years ago, when she was …
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Huey Lewis and the News canceled all of their 2018 tour dates after the singer revealed Friday that he is suffering from Meniere’s disease, an inner ear disorder. “Two and a half months ago, just before a show in Dallas, I lost most of my hearing,” Lewis said in a …
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Here’s a movie that’s in no rush to work a path into your head and heart. It’s the intent of Chinese-American filmmaker Chloé Zhao to carve a story out of the real lives of the people she puts on screen; her docu-fiction technique was what distinguished her striking 2015 feature …
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The most popular videos on YouTube, including Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s record-breaking “Despacito,” were hacked and defaced Tuesday, the BBC reports. While the content of the videos was unaltered, the hackers managed to replace the still photo that accompanies unplayed YouTube videos with a photo of people in masks …
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