Framing Britney Spears director Samantha Stark and senior story editor Liz Day are featured in a new Hollywood Reporter interview about the documentary, produced by The New York Timesfor Hulu/FX, about the pop star’s ongoing battle to break free from her conservatorship. Shortly after the documentary premiered on February 5th, …
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Overnight, millions of Americans became at risk of being evicted as a pause on evictions protecting Americans from losing their homes lapsed, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) says that is due to the White House not being “forthright” and moderate Democrats in Congress who refused to support an extension of …
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“The coolest thing we achieved is we took all those different influences and made them ours in one song,” says Sublime co-founder Eric Wilson. “And that’s what no one else really did.” Sublime’s self-titled breakthrough album turns 25 on July 30th, and in an interview on the Rolling Stone Music …
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“It’s a bit like someone you love for years having a slightly different haircut,” says Giles Martin. “And you realize you still love them.” The producer is talking about his Beatles remixes, which have been available in their most expansive form on Apple Music since June, when the service launched …
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Penance as spectacle is nothing new. Recall the ancient Greeks, who, in times of calendrical disaster, would torment a human sacrifice, a pharmakós, to bring about purification to the wider community; think of the struggle sessions of China’s Cultural Revolution, in which victims were forced to plea their guilt as …
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Dave Lampert, the inventor of the Sybian Sex Aid, has gone on his final ride, dying at the age of 90. A hulking, vibrating structure that resembles a balance beam, the Sybian was designed by Lampert in 1987 as a sexual stimulation device targeted specifically to women. Its vibrations are …
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Metallica has released another trio of tracks from their upcoming The Metallica Blacklist, a tribute album celebrating the 30th anniversary of the band’s classic LP The Black Album. Biffy Clyro and Off! each take on “Holier Than Thou,” while the band has also released a version of that song recorded …
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Most writers are intimately familiar with the near-impossible task of writing a compelling lede — the first few lines of a story designed to hook the reader and draw them in. Yet in 2015, a former Hooters waitress from Detroit logged onto her Twitter account and did it in seconds. …
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A deluxe reissue of Motörhead’s career-defining No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith live album will come out on June 25th. The collection features the original masterpiece (one of Rolling Stone’s 50 Greatest Live Albums), songs from the soundchecks, and full recordings of the three gigs that the band recorded for the live …
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Jack Antonoff’s Bleachers have released their new song, “How Dare You Want More,” from their upcoming album, Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night, out July 30th. “How Dare You Want More” — which Bleachers debuted at the end of May on The Tonight Show — is a rambunctious and …
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