The music-streaming war is headed to its most dramatic setting yet: the stage. On Tuesday, Apple Music announced that it will host a surprise Billie Eilish performance this week to celebrate its “first-ever Apple Music Awards” — just two weeks after Spotify announced plans to host its own “first-ever Spotify …
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Heads up: Spike Lee is coming at you with his greatest and most galvanizing movie in years. BlacKkKlansman is right up there with Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X in the Spike’s Joint pantheon of game-changers. For starters, it gets your blood up about the toxic and enduring power …
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Does Kathleen Zellner sleep? On Friday, Steven Avery’s defense attorney submitted her latest filing in the Making a Murderer subject’s case, and, no surprise, it’s a lot of paper –599 pages to be exact. Zellner’s motion asks that the Wisconsin Circuit Court in Manitowoc County allow her to supplement Avery’s …
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Halfway through a note-faithful performance of Pink Floyd’s 17-minute “Dogs,” Roger Waters and his band took a wine break. They put on grotesque swine masks – Waters’ looked a bit like the singer from Slipknot – gathered around a table and went about their piggily business, until the singer-songwriter lifted …
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When Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock landed in South Korea to perform at the Peace Train Music Festival right below the border of North Korea in late June, he didn’t know what to expect. He’d never stepped foot anywhere in South Korea, let alone the heavily militarized demilitarized zone where …
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