World War III will not be fought by explosives, nor by ammunitions, nor by cyber attacks. Instead, the weapon that will chiefly be used in the upcoming class wars will be a Popeyes chicken sandwich. This is the implication of the latest fast-food craze news cycle, which has been dominated …
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When the Dixie Chicks made an appearance on Taylor Swift’s “Soon You’ll Get Better,” from her new album Lover, it felt like a debt repaid. And a way overdue one, at that. The country trio have not released an album of their own in 13 years (although they’re working on …
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Earlier this month, “Omae Wa Mou,” a cheerful instrumental built around an obscure sample of Japanese bossa nova, reached Number One on the Spotify viral chartthanks to a meme that spawned a TikTok dance craze. But Deadman 死人, the 18-year-old producer behind the track, was barely able to celebrate: The …
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Official Secrets is not kinetic cinema. Instead, it dumps a ton of data on audiences in telling the true story of Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), the British whistleblower who leaked classified documents meant to pressure the U.N. Security Council into supporting the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. But even when …
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Sting shared a statement condemning the Brazilian government’s response — or lack thereof — to the devastating fires raging across the Amazon rainforest. In a note posted on Facebook, the musician heavily criticized President Jair Bolsonaro, a climate change skeptic who has expressed contempt for the indigenous people of Amazonia, …
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is billed as the end of “the story of a generation.” On December 20, the ninth part of the storied franchise will end, but Star Wars is far from dying. Instead, the sci-fi epic is merely moving its center of operation to Disney’s new …
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Taylor Swift talks Lover, rerecording her first six albums, haters and what the future holds in the singer’s new interview with CBS Sunday Morning. As previously reported, Swift revealed during her conversation with Tracy Smith that she planned on rerecording her Big Machine catalog following that label’s sale – and …
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Stone Temple Pilots have unveiled a previously unreleased live version of their 1994 hit “Interstate Love Song,” set to appear on the band’s forthcoming reissue of their second LP Purple, out October 18th. The performance was recorded 25 years ago today, August 23rd, 1994 at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in …
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The 1975 get heavier and faster with their sound for new song “People,” the lead single off their forthcoming LP Notes on a Conditional Form. “People” is a sonic departure for the 1975 and maybe their most punk song ever. Singer Matty Healy sounds as if he is screaming into …
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I don’t need to send droplets of my blood in an envelope to some corporation to know that, for the most part, my forebears were not immigrants to this land. Yet I also know that unlike even our parents, my sister and I were fortunate to be born here with …
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