Who needs history when you can just make shit up? On Friday, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, spoke to Blaze TV’s Glenn Beck where she said that “people saw” the Confederate flag “as service, and sacrifice, and heritage” before white supremacist Dylann …
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Taylor Swift, as you may have heard, grew up on Pine Ridge Farm in Reading, Pennsylvania. In the video for her new holiday song, “Christmas Tree Farm,” which premiered at midnight on Thursday, the pop star takes us back to her semi-rural childhood through home movies shot by her mother …
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Beck delivered a clever rendition of his Hyperspace single “Uneventful Days” Tuesday on Jimmy Kimmel Live, with the singer turning the late-night show’s studio into his own music video set. For the performance, Beck employed a video backdrop, a camera fixed to a circular track and a mock cubicle to …
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In August, Sheryl Crow released her eleventh and final studio album, Threads, featuring a tracklist chock-full of collaborations: Willie Nelson, St. Vincent, Brandi Carlile and many more. This week, Crow appeared on The Ellen Degeneres Show to perform a cut from the record, “Prove You Wrong,” with none other than …
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Jehnny Beth has released a music video for her recent solo track “I’m the Man,” which comes off the soundtrack to the fifth season of Peaky Blinders. The video features a spoken word intro from the show’s star Cillian Murphy and was directed by series writer-director Anthony Byrne. The video …
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Reba McEntire and Brooks & Dunn have announced a new string of shows for their long-running Las Vegas residency. The longtime collaborators added 24 performances to their “Reba, Brooks & Dunn: Together in Vegas” production at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. The new dates begin in April and include shows …
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As a young woman in the early Sixties, Janis Joplin was pushing the era’s boundaries well before she ever recorded a note, whether she was hitchhiking solo to San Francisco as a teen or refusing to hide her bisexuality at a conservative Texas college. And all the while she was …
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The Weeknd returns with new song “Heartless.” It’s his first new solo music since he released his EP, My Dear Melancholy, in March 2018. On the new track, Abel Tesfaye, aka the Weeknd, sings about searching for deeper meaning and “trying to find the one that can fix me,” but …
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“The lurid publications depend for their appeal upon mayhem, murder, torture, abduction, superman heroics, voluptuous females, blazing machine guns, and hooded justice.” -Sterling North, Chicago Daily News, May 8th, 1940 “The Superman formula is essentially lynching.” – Gershon Legman, “The Psychopathology of Comic Books,” American Journal of Psychology, Vol. II, …
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Billie Eilish played a (literally) fiery version of “All the Good Girls Go to Hell” during her performance Sunday at the 2019 American Music Awards. The singer started out seated, whispering the song’s oceanic intro as her brother/collaborator Finneas played piano. As the latter switched to bass guitar, Eilish jumped …
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