It’s the morning of the New York Film Festival premiere of Private Life, and Tamara Jenkins is positively buoyant. Dressed in a goldenrod floral-print dress and loafers, the 56-year-old writer-director arrives at a Lincoln Center café smiling broadly. She is warm, chatty, effervescent — which is somewhat surprising since her …
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Season 15 of NBC’s The Voice featured some international pop on night six of Blind Auditions, led by a teenaged dynamo singing Camila Cabello’s “Havana.” With an effortless level of cool, 15-year-old Miami resident Lela tapped into her family’s Colombian roots for a mostly Spanish version of the pop smash …
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A thousand years from now, when some vaguely human-like machine digs through the ashes of the Twenty-Firstcentury and tries to figure out what happened to those once-thriving animals called Homo sapiens, it may be confused about why an intelligent species that could build rockets and write songs like “Imagine” couldn’t …
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Update 6:32 PM: President Trump has announced that he likes Taylor Swift‘s music “about 25 percent less now, OK?” (He added that the pop star “doesn’t know anything about” Blackburn.) Original post below. *** Taylor Swift — who started her career in country music three years after the Dixie Chicks …
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A week afterTom Petty‘s expansive American Treasure boxset arrived, Universal has announced plans to release a career-spanning best-of collection dedicated to the late rocker that boasts a pair of unreleased recordings. The Best of Everything, due out November 16th, features 38 of Petty’s biggest and “definitive” hits culled from throughout …
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Lady Gaga defended Dr. Christine Blasey Ford during an impassioned interview on Thursday’s Late Show, calling the nationwide debate over her credibility “one of the most upsetting things I have ever witnessed.”The singer-actress called it “heartbreaking” that people have dismissed and ridiculed Dr. Ford, who alleges that Supreme Court nominee …
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It’s been a dozen years since the Watson Twins made their mainstream debut as Jenny Lewis’s pitch-perfect backup singers, filling her solo debut, Rabbit Fur Coat, with gospel harmonies and alt-country charm. This month, they’ll reclaim the spotlight for themselves with Duo, the pair’s sixth album. Unlike the releases before …
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Phosphorescent stopped by The Late Late Show With James Corden on Tuesday night to play a joyous version of “New Birth in New England,” from the band’s new LP C’est La Vie. The group’s first album in five years and first since relocating from their previous home in Brooklyn to …
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When a Tennessee rainstorm cut short this year’s Pilgrimage Music and Cultural Festival, many of the lineup’s acts remained in the area, booking last-minute shows in Nashville and nearby Franklin. Today, 10 days after the event ground to a halt during the middle of Counting Crows’ Saturday-afternoon set, festival headliner …
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The new Tom Petty box set An American Treasure is an exploration of the singer’s vast catalog that skips the hits in favor of studio outtakes, demos, alternative takes, live cuts and songs that deserved a bigger following. One of the more interesting selections is “Gainesville,” a previously-unknown song that …
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