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Taylor Swift holds the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s newest album chart for a fifth consecutive week, after an intense contest with Billie Eilish during which each stars launched a blizzard of “variations” of their LPs to lure followers. Eilish fought for “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” her third album, with release-week enviornment listening occasions […] More

Eleven members of Steiger Butte Drum sat in a circle round a big elk-hide drum on the entrance of the stage of Cincinnati’s Music Hall final Thursday. Washes of sound from the orchestra behind them constructed and receded in grand waves. The group was the concerto soloist, of a sort, in “Natural History” by Michael […] More

This week’s episode of Popcast (Deluxe), the weekly tradition roundup present on YouTube hosted by Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli, contains dialogue of: The imperfect rollout of Dua Lipa’s newest album, “Radical Optimism,” and the way the narrative round it turned poisoned earlier than it was even launched Dua Lipa’s profession of easy and frictionless […] More

The idea of “coercive management” entered the lexicon a couple of decade in the past and has develop into an more and more prevalent theme within the true crime style. Pioneered by Evan Stark, a researcher and skilled on home abuse, it refers to a sample of abusive conduct and manipulation — together with isolation, […] More

For the early punks, lots of them white British blokes, their music was about declaring themselves outdoors the bigger society. The Sex Pistols dreamed of “anarchy for the U.Ok.” The Clash howled for “a riot of my very own.” To be punk was to provide offense, to make one’s self unpalatable, to decide on to […] More

“And I don’t suppose a lot previous that,” he mentioned, “as a result of I’m not going to waste a day the place I really feel good.” Even so, a rash of latest actions conspicuously included reunions with formative associates. After the interview at his dwelling, London raced to Park Slope to play with the […] More

Leslye Headland has been telling “Star Wars” tales onscreen since she was an adolescent. Ostracized at college for being totally different, she retreated inward, making stop-motion movies starring her motion figures. So when she discovered success as an grownup in Hollywood — Headland helped create “Russian Doll,” the 2019 Netflix comedy starring Natasha Lyonne — […] More

Dear listeners, The day after Memorial Day — or any day that straight follows a beginning-of-the-week vacation — is a type of Tuesdays that looks like a Monday. A sure temporal fog lingers and can proceed to confuse you all week: “Wait, what day is it once more?” Well, right now it’s Tuesday. And I’m […] More

In subsequent years, Walton traveled with the Dead when the band carried out on the pyramids in Egypt, drummed onstage with Hart and fellow percussionist Bill Kreutzmann, and appeared at a Dead & Company live performance as Father Time because the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve in 2019. (Walton was additionally a fan […] More

A decade in the past, the Wu-Tang Clan issued a sole copy of a CD-only album, secured it in an engraved nickel and silver field, locked it away in a vault and mentioned it couldn’t be heard by the general public till 2103. The transfer was seen as a protest towards the devaluation of music […] More

‘28 Days’ (June 30) Stream it right here. Years earlier than successful an Oscar for “The Blind Side,” Sandra Bullock revealed the primary hints of her appreciable vary on this participating serio-comic drama from the director Betty Thomas (“Private Parts”) and the screenwriter Susannah Grant (“Erin Brockovich”). Bullock stars as a fast-living New York author […] More

The way forward for “Inside the NBA” was already a delicate subject when Charles Barkley stepped into an elevator after Game 3 of the Western Conference finals late Friday night time. Barkley’s on-air candor as an analyst is a key cause that the studio present has develop into so influential and beloved amongst basketball followers […] More