Toward the end of his life, Prince was creating so much music that he appeared to lose sight of his vision. Although his records contained glimmers of brilliance, he had started entombing potentially glorious singalong choruses, jaw-dropping guitar solos, and clever lyrics in overwrought R&B and heavy-handed garage rock. (Check …
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Unprecedented access to information, ideas and funding is leading younger generations to trust technology over institutions. The world’s population has an average age that is younger than 35 years old. A phenomenon occurs when you hear or see something that catches your attention — a word, an idea, or in …
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Liars have released a music video for their latest single, “From What the Never Was.” The video, directed by filmmaker Clemens Habicht, is an homage to iconic sci-fi films. The clip is the third in a trilogy directed by Habicht for Liars’ upcoming album, The Apple Drop, out August 6th …
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Phish have issued a statement urging their fans get vaccinated and wear a mask when social distancing isn’t possible during the band’s upcoming summer tour. The band’s statement arrived Wednesday, July 28th, just hours before playing their first show since February 2020 — practically a lifetime for a band that …
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Martin Shkreli has finally been forced to part ways with what RZA‘s calls “the Mona Lisa” of Wu-Tang Clan albums, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, after the United States sold the one-of-a-kind record. All proceeds from the sale will be applied to the outstanding balance owed on the disgraced …
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Earlier this year, when a person with the username “JeffBezosForeskin” paid around $40,000 for Monty Python actor John Cleese’s NFT — a crude iPad sketching of the Brooklyn Bridge complete with disproportionately sized, stick-figure fishies — I lost a bit of whatever faith I had left in humanity. At the …
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Paramount+ has released a new teaser for its upcoming animated kids’ series, Star Trek: Prodigy, which is set to premiere on the streaming platform this fall. The series is set after the events of the late-Nineties TV series, Star Trek: Voyager, and centers around a group of young aliens, who …
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The Biden administration imposed new sanctions against a Cuban official for alleged human rights abuses inflicted on protesters during the government’s crackdown earlier this month. The sanctions, brought against the Cuban defense minister and the head of the nation’s special forces brigade, Alvaro Lopez Miera, were “just the beginning,” President …
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Paul McCartney chewing celery on Super Furry Animals’ 2000 song “Receptacle for the Respectable” ranks among the strangest guest appearances of the legendary songwriter’s career. Now, ahead of the 20th-anniversary collection celebrating Super Furry Animals’ Rings Around the World, the Welsh band has offered up the isolated, one-minute version of …
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IFC has shared the latest trailer for Demonic, an upcoming horror film by District 9 and Elysium director Neill Blomkamp. Mixing equal parts supernatural and techno-horror, Demonic centers on a woman who somehow unleashes the titular demonic forces after being virtually implanted into the mind of her comatose mother. According …
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