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Taylor Swift was already probably the most ubiquitous pop star within the galaxy, her presence dominating the music charts, the live performance calendar, the Super Bowl, the Grammys. Then it got here time for her to advertise a brand new album. In the times main as much as the discharge of “The Tortured Poets Department” […] More

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the earlier evening’s highlights that permits you to sleep — and lets us receives a commission to look at comedy. Here are the 50 greatest films on Netflix proper now. Not Right Enough The Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, is dealing with important backlash […] More

Peter Sellars needed to know extra. He was in San Francisco just a few years in the past, attending a efficiency of “The No One’s Rose,” a fascinatingly idiosyncratic work of music theater that featured a few of his favourite artists, from the American Modern Opera Company, and a rating by the younger composer Matthew […] More

The New York Philharmonic, which has been going through an uproar since a current journal article detailed allegations of misconduct towards two gamers it tried and failed to fireside in 2018, stated on Thursday that it was commissioning an out of doors investigation into its tradition. Gary Ginstling, the Philharmonic’s president and chief government, stated […] More

When “The Jinx” premiered in 2015, it was one of many pillars of the brand new true-crime wave — high-end however sufficiently lurid, with soap-opera twists but additionally documentary legitimacy. In the absence of prison justice, perhaps leisure justice might suffice. Now the director Andrew Jarecki is again with “The Jinx — Part Two,” six […] More

Dickey Betts, a honky-tonk hell raiser who, as a guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band, traded fiery licks with Duane Allman within the band’s early-Nineteen Seventies heyday, and who went on to write down a few of the band’s most indelible songs, together with its largest hit, “Ramblin’ Man,” died on Thursday morning at his […] More

Sailing throughout the Atlantic to France in October 1776, Benjamin Franklin had 38 days to ponder his near-impossible mission: persuading absolutely the French monarchy of Louis XVI to bankroll a nascent American republic. His democracy within the making had simply declared independence from one other monarchy, the British, and had accomplished so with “no gunpowder, […] More

On a latest Tuesday night time in a dressing room of the Brooklyn Paramount Theater, Annie Clark, the 41-year-old musician who information as St. Vincent, thumbed by way of a shelf of secondhand information and sipped a glass of pink champagne. Clark, invited to D.J. the venue’s grand reopening party, was the room’s first inhabitant […] More

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the earlier evening’s highlights that permits you to sleep — and lets us receives a commission to look at comedy. Here are the 50 finest motion pictures on Netflix proper now. Old News Donald Trump had the time without work from his legal trial on Wednesday. […] More

In March 1912, the well-known violinist and composer Eugène Ysaÿe visited the house of his fellow musician Raoul Pugno in Paris. At the piano, Pugno performed and sang by way of “La Ville Morte,” an opera he was writing with Nadia Boulanger, a mentee-turned-collaborator 35 years his junior. “Of this very personal efficiency,” Ysaÿe wrote […] More

For six many years, the partnership summarized by the songwriting credit score “Lennon-McCartney” has been pop music’s gold commonplace. So there was some shock final week when followers woke as much as a brand-new monitor from McCartney and Lennon — if not the identical duo. James McCartney, the son of Linda McCartney and the Beatles’ […] More

Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music Vampire Weekend lately launched its fifth album, “Only God Was Above Us.” From the band that acquired began almost 20 years in the past at Columbia University however now resides in Los Angeles, it’s an LP that ponders hitting 40, the teachings of historical past, generational […] More