Pharrell Williams discussed his efforts to make Juneteenth an official holiday during a visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live Thursday. Earlier in the week, Williams appeared alongside Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam at a press conference in support of making June 19th — or Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery — …
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President Trump took his ignorance of Juneteenth and tried to spin it into a positive by claiming that he made the already significant and celebrated anniversary “famous.” Trump told the Wall Street Journal that a Black Secret Service agent had told him the meaning of Juneteenth after he faced backlash …
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Woodstock 50 organizers are suing their former financial partner Dentsu Group and several of its affiliates, accusing the company of “destruction of the festival” and “sabotage.” In the complaint filed on Wednesday in New York Supreme Court obtained by Rolling Stone, the plaintiffs seek tens of millions of dollars in …
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UPDATE (7/16):The Killers have announced a release date for Imploding the Mirage and released the video for “My Own Soul’s Warning.” The album is set to drop on August 21st, 2020 on Island Records. The band is also postponing their remaining 2020 tour dates for North America and Australia. “As …
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Two days after a Minneapolis cop killed George Floyd in late May, the novel coronavirus tallied its 100,000th American victim. More than 22,000 of those lost were black, though we only make up 13 percent of the overall U.S. population. As the global pandemic was laying bare virtually all of …
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Spike Lee issued an apology Saturday following comments he made in a radio interview where he defended Woody Allen and admonished “this cancel [culture] thing.” “My words were WRONG,” Lee tweeted Saturday after his remarks drew criticism. “I do not and will not tolerate sexual harassment, assault or violence. Such …
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Santana and Earth, Wind and Fire have announced their new tour dates, rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Their Miraculous Supernatural Tour, originally scheduled to kick off this summer, will now begin on June 18th, 2021 in Chula Vista, California, and end on August 28th, 2021 in Tampa, Florida. Previously …
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Sports Team are a great six-piece English rock band who formed when they were students at Cambridge. The crisp, jagged tunes on their debut LP, Deep Down Happy, recall Franz Ferdinand or the early Arctic Monkeys; their weird-angled guitars can evoke Pavement or Silkworm; their clever critiques of British life …
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StaySolidRocky, the San Antonio singer and rapper who sent TikTok into a frenzy with his song “Party Girl,” tops this month’s Breakthrough 25 Chart, which ranks the fastest-rising emerging artists of the month. In a matter of weeks, StaySolidRocky’s weekly streams went from four-digits to the multi-millions after “Party Girl,” …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. When you’re picking out components to build or upgrade your home theater system, one of the first decisions you’ll need to make is whether to get a TV …
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