Thom Yorke has revealed the sound and themes of his upcoming solo album in a cover story for Crack magazine. The album is reportedly being released by XL Recordings. It will be the Radiohead frontman’s third proper solo LP, and his first since 2014’s Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes. In a wide-ranging …
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California Senator Kamala Harris’ pointed questioning of Attorney General Bill Barr during this week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearings garnered a lot of attention. Not only because Harris asked questions with unflinching precision but because she left Barr with no choice but to obfuscate about whether or not President Donald Trump …
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In the past few months, Spotify’s reputation within the music industry has hit a new low. Since the company said goodbye to its biggest industry-facing champion, global head of creator services Troy Carter, in September last year, Spotify has: (1) been sued by Warner/Chappell in India for copyright infringement; (2) …
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Nick Hornby has never owned a setlist, but his latest charity endeavor, Setlists For Young Voices, may change that. The project, conceived by Hornby alongside authors Dave Eggers and Michael Chabon, has collected over 100 setlists from artists like R.E.M., Patti Smith, Nine Inch Nails, Death Cab for Cutie and …
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Bun B shot and injured an armed intruder during an attempted robbery at the rapper’s Houston home Tuesday night. Police confirmed to Houston’s ABC 13 that early Tuesday evening, a masked man holding a gun rang the rapper’s doorbell; Bun B’s wife Queenie answered the door, thinking it was a …
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Kathleen Pittman has been the clinic administrator at Hope Medical Group in Shreveport, Louisiana, since 2010. Back when she first took the job, there were seven abortion clinics operating in the state. Today, there are three. Earlier this year, after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a law that …
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Homecoming, the Beyoncé concert film documentary that dropped on Netflix Wednesday, arrived with a little (or not little) surprise in tow: a two-hour, 40-track live album, available for immediate listening on all major music-streaming services. The hefty new record, titled Homecoming: the Live Album and featuring recordings from Beyoncé’s headline …
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It’s been a little over a month since John Lydon (aka the Sex Pistols‘ Johnny Rotten) lit into Marky Ramone, Henry Rollins and a murderers’ row of underground-music legends at an L.A. panel about punk music. “Hello, Johnny Rotten never did the walk?” he bellowed when Ramone suggested he didn’t …
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The National Enquirer – the tabloid infamous for buying, then spiking, damaging stories about Donald Trump and reportedly keeping the evidence in a safe – is up for sale. Anthony Melchiorre, the hedge fund manager who owns the controlling interest in Enquirer parent company AMI, has reportedly grown tired of …
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Allison Mack, the Smallville actress implicated in the NXIVM sex cult case, pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering and one count of racketeering conspiracy at a Brooklyn federal court on Monday. In court, Mack tearfully said that she took “full responsibility for [her] conduct” as the alleged second-in-command of …
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