Monday 30 November 2015

New Order 'Disappointed' in Peter Hook Lawsuit

New Order has issued a statement following news that their former bassist Peter Hook is suing his ex-band mates over unpaid royalties. "Obviously the band are disappointed that Peter is pursuing this claim in this particular way," the Music Complete group said after the lawsuit began proceedings in a London high court last week. "The...

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Watch Superman Unmask Batman in New 'Dawn of Justice' Teaser

The Man of Steel and the Dark Knight are still at odds in the latest glimpse at the 2016 blockbuster Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. In the brief clip that aired during the midseason finale of the Batman-centric Fox series Gotham, Batman is shown captive and under guard in...

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Tupac Shakur Biopic Recruits New Director

Eight months after director John Singleton parted ways with the Tupac Shakur biopic – and just a month after his replacement Carl Franklin quietly stepped away from the film – producers have recruited another director to helm the long-in-the-works movie. Music video vet Benny Boom will now take over the project that's...

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Hear Coldplay, Beyonce's Clubby, Dreamlike 'Hymn for the Weekend'

Coldplay and Beyoncé's collaborative, clubby "Hymn for the Weekend" finds the "Drunk in Love" singer weaving her voice around the group's R&B-inflected arrangement. "Life is a drink, and love's a drug," Chris Martin sings amid rattling pianos and funky percussion, before he and Beyoncé sing, "Drink for me, drink for...

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See Anderson East Exorcise Demons With Lively 'Devil in Me'

Smoky soul singer Anderson East showed off his swampy, barroom gospel on CBS This Morning this past weekend (November 28th), underscoring why he was named one of Rolling Stone Country's Artists You Need to Know this summer. Along with "Satisfy Me" and "Find 'Em, Fool 'Em, and Forget 'Em," East performed an...

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Eagles of Death Metal Launch Covers Campaign for Paris Charity

Following the terrorist assault on Eagles of Death Metal's Paris concert earlier this month, the group has called upon artists of all genres to cover its Zipper Down track "I Love You All the Time" with the intention of donating all proceeds to the families of the attack's victims, including the band's merchandise...

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Kelsea Ballerini, Cam Lead CRS New Faces Lineup

In what certainly looks like a hopeful sign for country radio, a surprisingly diverse lineup of artists has been announced as performers for the 2016 New Faces of Country Music Show on February 10th. Slated to make appearances are Brothers Osborne, Kelsea Ballerini, Cam, Old Dominion and Chris Janson. The annual dinner...

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17 Things You Learn Hanging Out With Adele

When Adele sat for her Rolling Stone cover-story interviews in early October, the world had yet to hear 25. The album and its first single, "Hello," were weeks away from breaking every available record, from video streams to first-week sales, but Adele wasn't focused on those possibilities. "I don't care if 10...

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Watch Skrillex's Epic, Nightmarish 'Red Lips' Video

Skrillex has unveiled the new video for his frenetic remix of GTA's "Red Lips." The visually stunning video finds actress Anya Taylor Joy, the breakout star of film fest favorite horror flick The Witch, battling it out against creepy, insanely double-jointed captors. Skrillex served as co-writer, producer and editor on...

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Tyson Fury Hasn't Stopped Singing Since Beating Klitschko

Tyson Fury is the gift that keeps on giving. You might remember him as the boxer who pledged to rid the world of the "boring" Wladimir Klitschko – whom he dismissed as having "as much charisma as my underpants" – or the guy who showed up to a prefight press conference...

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Climate Scientists Grade the Candidates, and Ted Cruz Flunks

President Obama is in Paris this week, hunkered down with world leaders in hopes of hammering out a deal to curb carbon emissions worldwide. The agreement, if one is reached, will be the centerpiece of Obama's climate legacy, but it will also be the next president's job to uphold it. With...

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George Lucas Explains Controversial Greedo–Han Solo 'Star Wars' Edit

Nearly 20 years after the re-released "special edition" of Star Wars altered a pivotal scene in which Han Solo had originally shot bounty hunter Greedo, director George Lucas has explained the edit. "Han Solo was going to marry Leia, and you look back and say, 'Should he be a cold-blooded killer?'"...

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Watch Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein's Awkward 'Portlandia' Sex

Portlandia co-stars Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein have taken their friendship to the next level – with the most awkward intimate encounter ever attempted. "We're having sex! We're gonna do it!" enthuses Armisen in this hilarious clip promoting new episodes of the IFC comedy.  Sitting across from each other on matching beds,...

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Flashback: Garth Brooks' 'No Fences' Rules at Retail

Last week, Adele made Billboard chart history by selling an astounding 3.38 million copies of her 25 LP (at the dizzying rate of 335 copies per minute). But 25 years ago this week, the king of the charts was country music's own Garth Brooks, whose second album No Fences earned the...

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The Oral History of the 'Wayne’s World' 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Scene

When it was originally released in 1975, Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" was an oddity: A flamboyant, operatic, tempo-shifting epic that felt like several songs fused together. The band's record company figured the nearly six-minute song was too long for the radio and would never be a hit. They were wrong on...

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Songwriter Spotlight: Zach Crowell on Sam Hunt and Hustling

Zach Crowell greets his caller with a profuse apology for the month that it took to nail down a time to talk. It’s not that the writer-producer was trying to be elusive. It's just that he’s been plugging away behind the scenes, building tracks that coax vibey, glistening new songs...

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Peter Hook Sues New Order Over Unpaid Royalties

Peter Hook is suing his former New Order bandmates for "millions of pounds" in unpaid royalties, as the bassist accused members Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris of marginalizing his stake in the band by "clandestinely" forming a new company to control the New Order trademark, the Manchester Evening News reports. As part of...

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Sinead O'Connor Targets Family Following Suicide Threat

Following her suicide threat this weekend, Sinead O'Connor has written a new Facebook post directed at some of her family members. The singer was reportedly found "safe and sound" Sunday after posting to Facebook that she had overdosed at a hotel in Ireland. "Jake, Roisin, Jr., Frank, Donal, Eimear, I never wanna see...

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5 Things We Learned From 'Walking Dead' Season 6.1

We're now eight episodes into The Walking Dead's sixth season, with a few months off before we get to chapter nine. And thanks to a controversial plot twist — or un-twist — AMC's cash cow re-entered the dreaded "cultural conversation" in a major way this fall, generating think-pieces aplenty about...

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Watch Psy Play Baby, Old Man in Wacky 'Daddy' Video

South Korean singer Psy broke the Internet in 2012 with his over-the-top "Gangnam Style" video, which reached over 2 billion YouTube views. Since then, he's attempted to re-capture lightning in a bottle with videos for singles like "Gentleman" and "Hangover," the latter a duet with Snoop Dogg. Now the K-pop goofball is...

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Acid Tests Turn 50: Wavy Gravy, Merry Prankster Ken Babbs Look Back

This week in Santa Cruz, California, a concert, reading and site dedication will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters' first LSD-fueled Acid Test, held in the small neighborhood of Soquel on November 27th, 1965. More than a half-dozen Pranksters — plus the hammer Neal Cassady once...

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The Unkillable Kansas City Chiefs

The same holds true each NFL season, though after Sunday, it bears repeating: When you're only six games into the year, you don't know what you don't know. After six weeks, the Atlanta Falcons and the Green Bay Packers looked like the class of the NFC. Obviously, that's no longer the case...

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Kacey Musgraves Announces New U.S. Tour Dates

Kacey Musgraves will ring in the New Year by adding several dates to her headlining tour, the Kacey Musgraves Country & Western Rhinestone Revue. The next leg of the wildly successful trek kicks off January 21st in Dallas and wraps up in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 5th. Musgraves began the...

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Hear Sunn O)))'s 'Bright' Drone-Metal Return LP, 'Kannon'

Sunn O))), the Mark Rothkos of void-painting expressionist metal, are returning next month with their first studio album in six years — ending the longest wait between blasts in the band's 15 year history. Kannon, released on co-leader Greg Anderson's Southern Lord Records, strips the band down from the baroque...

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Baroness on Crash Recovery, James Hetfield Call, Dave Fridmann–Produced LP

"We're always trying to achieve some new goal convincingly," says Baroness frontman and guitarist John Baizley. "Once we've done that, once we've passed the mile marker that we have never reached before, we set the bar a little further down the road and see if we can outdo that." With all due...

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Bono to Auction Off Bike Ride for (RED) Campaign

One year after Bono was seriously injured from a bike accident in New York City's Central Park, the U2 frontman is auctioning off a bike ride to a donor as part of a campaign for his organization (RED), which raises money to battle AIDS. That ride with rock royalty can be won by...

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'Skins Win to Take NFC East Lead, and We All Lose

Of all the big games in all the NFL cities in Week 12, the New York Giants at the Washington Redskins – well, it wasn't one of them. And yet… "The stars have aligned for the New York Giants," began the game preview on the blog Big Blue View. "The dominoes have...

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Animal Collective Talk Escaping Reverb on 'Minimal' 10th Album 'Painting With'

Psychedelic avant-poppers Animal Collective have released "FloriDada," the first taste of their 10th studio album, Painting With, due Feburary 19, 2016. The giddy, harmony-soaked, "Wipeout"-borrowing four-minute single is the opening track of a record the band tells Rolling Stone was intended to be "minimal," made of "short blasts" and not...

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On the Charts: Adele's '25' Caps Record Week With Number One

Adele's 25 entered this week's Billboard 200 at Number One, shattering the first-week sales record in its wake on its way to 3.38 million copies sold. Adele taking the top spot was a foregone conclusion, but the history-making way she did it continues to impress. While the record books will show that 25...

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Why 'Misery' Is More Relevant in the Social-Media Age

When you first came here, I only loved the writer part of Paul Sheldon…now I know I love the rest of him too." It was 25 years today that the Rob Reiner-directed adaptation of Stephen King's novel Misery was released — but its chilling, claustrophobic story about consumer/celebrity dynamics gives...

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Keith Urban Gets the Hall of Fame Treatment: The Ram Report

The beauty of Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum lies in the way it expertly honors country music's past while also making just enough room for its present. In recent months, the institution has hosted insightful — and successful — exhibits on contemporary artists like Luke Bryan and Eric Church,...

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Watch Amy Winehouse Walk Red Carpet, Gush Over Beyonce in Cut 'Amy' Scene

Amy, Asif Kapadia's acclaimed documentary on Amy Winehouse's tragic life story, comes out on DVD and Blu-ray on December 1st. In advance of tomorrow's release, we're premiering one of the deleted scenes that will appear as bonus content on these new editions. This clip features Winehouse at the 2004 Brit Awards, a night...

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My Morning Jacket Pay Tribute to Eagles of Death Metal, Paris Victims

In Eagles of Death Metal's first interview since the horrific Paris terror attacks, the band asked that artists in all genres cover their song "I Love You All the Time" in tribute to those killed at the Bataclan club. My Morning Jacket wrapped up their four-night stand at New York's Beacon Theatre...

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10 Best Movies and TV Shows to Stream in December

Streaming services are a crucial addition to modern civilization, but only in December do they become a truly indispensible survival tool. Whether curled around your laptop in order to keep warm or retreating to your favorites queue in a desperate attempt to hide from your loved ones, this is the...

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Kobe Bryant Rages Against the Dying of the Light in Retirement Poem

Kobe Bryant has never been a man to know his limitations, and so it was entirely appropriate for him to publicly acknowledge his own mortality in one of the oldest, most respected and least understood art forms, the poem. This is what poetry has become in this day and age:...

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Panic in Patriots Nation? Brock Beats Brady and Gronk Goes Down

He tumbled to the grass like he had done one too many shots of Jägermeister while parading around shirtless in a blizzard as a Hell Week stunt, and regardless of how you feel about the writhing ball of pissed-off reptilian fury that is the 2015 New England Patriots, there was...

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Sunday 29 November 2015

'The Walking Dead' Midseason Finale Recap: Safe No More

Sometimes The Walking Dead meanders in circles for weeks on end, not really getting anywhere or saying anything. And then, sometimes the show packs an entire season into a minute. Just about everything that the last dozen or so episodes have been trying to say is encapsulated by the cold...

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Sinead O'Connor Threatens Suicide in Dire Facebook Post

Sinead O'Connor threatened to commit suicide in a harrowing letter the singer posted on Facebook Sunday afternoon. In the letter, O'Connor focuses on "a horrific set of betrayals" she accuses her family of perpetrating against her. "I have taken an overdose," she warned. "There is no other way to get respect. I am...

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Thom Yorke DJs at London Climate March

Thom Yorke served as DJ atop a Greenpeace U.K. float that marched through the streets of London Sunday, just one day before the Paris Climate Conference begins on November 30th. Thousands of protesters demanding that world leaders enforce stricter climate-protecting guidelines have already lined the streets of Paris, and similar marches were orchestrated...

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Watch Pearl Jam Cover U2's 'A Sort of Homecoming' at Colombia Concert

Pearl Jam wrapped up their tour of South America and Mexico Saturday night, a nine-show trek where every concert clocked in at over three hours and the set list was packed with the band's biggest hits, fan favorites and surprise covers. Previous shows on the jaunt have seen Pearl Jam cover Pink...

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Adele's '25' Sells Over Three Million Copies in First Week

Not only did Adele's 25 shatter the record for most albums sold in the U.S. in a single week, it also exceeded all estimations and expectations as the LP tallied a colossal total of 3.38 million copies in its debut week. Adele's 25 became only the second album to sell over...

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Saturday 28 November 2015

'Ash vs. Evil Dead' Recap: The Exorcist(s)

We open on Ash Williams, bound and gagged. His friend Kelly is possessed by a demon. His friend Pablo believes the evil's inside him instead. And the Brujo is gonna cut it out of his brain with a kitchen knife. You wanna talk about drama with stakes? Try being tied...

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Twisted Sister Allow Donald Trump to Use 'We're Not Gonna Take It'

While artists like Neil Young, R.E.M. and Aerosmith have lashed out at Donald Trump for using their music at political rallies without permission, Twisted Sister have allowed the Republican presidential candidate to use their 1984 hit "We're Not Gonna Take It" on the campaign trail. As singer Dee Snider revealed in a new...

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Hear Sia's Soaring 'One Million Bullets'

Sia will release her new album This Is Acting in January, and on Friday the Australian singer unveiled "One Million Bullets," the latest single off her 1000 Forms of Fear follow-up. The atmospheric, expressive track starts off on a hushed tone before unfurling an infectious, soaring chorus that has become a staple...

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Classic Richard Pryor LPs Released Digitally for First Time

December 1st marks what would have been Richard Pryor's 75th birthday, and to celebrate the occasion, six of the comedian's landmark recordings have been reissued digitally for the first time. "I am thrilled to celebrate Richard's upcoming 75th birthday with this great news. A wonderful gift to his fans, old and...

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The Beatles' 'Anthology 1' at 20: Fab Four's Finest Early Rarities

While the Beatles' first Anthology, released 20 years ago this month, isn't exactly canonical Fab Four, it's worth remembering how momentous the compilation seemed at the time. Perhaps you were among those whose minds were blown in anticipation of new Beatle baubles, demos, outtakes and live cuts that went beyond what even...

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Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole Trade Beats for 'Black Friday' Surprise

Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole dropped a pair of Black Friday gifts on fans as the rappers traded beats off their respective albums to create their own new songs, both titled "Black Friday." The swap finds Lamar hopping onto Cole's 2014 Forest Hills Drive cut "A Tale of 2 Citiez," while Cole adds his...

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Friday 27 November 2015

'The Knick' Recap: Dance Hall Days

Forget about the West Virginia church mouse that used to silently, shyly roam the halls of the Knickerbocker, her wide eyes taking — meet the baller version of Nurse Lucy Elkins, kicking ass and taking names. Like Cinderella's sex-positive feminist alter ego, Lucy arrives at the Knick's charity ball, French...

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Santigold, ILoveMakonnen Ask 'Who Be Lovin' Me' in Star-Studded New Video

Santigold has unveiled the new video for "Who Be Lovin' Me," the ILoveMakonnen-featuring, Zeds Dead-produced cut off her upcoming 99¢ LP. The bulk of the video was filmed at this year's Made in America festival, so "Who Be Lovin' Me" is stocked with cameos from fellow performers at that fest: Meek...

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Bringing It All Back Home: Inside the Restoration of 'Don't Look Back'

D.A. Pennbaker still remembers the man with the wiry gray hair and the sunglasses, sitting across from him in his office and posing an innocent enough question. "He asked, 'Would you like to come along on a tour with my client? His name is Bob Dylan.' It sort of rang...

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Jim James Talks Roger Waters, Dilla and New My Morning Jacket LP

My Morning Jacket's Jim James recently stopped by the Rolling Stone office to talk about the band's next LP, his love of J Dilla's Donuts and performing alongside Roger Waters at the Newport Folk festival, a gig James called "one of those moments that I'll never forget." "It was pretty intimidating to...

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M.I.A. Examines Refugees' Strife in Politically Charged 'Borders' Video

The fate of Syrian refugees has become a hot button issue both in the United States and abroad, and M.I.A. examines the challenges these refugees face both in their travels and once they reach their destination in her politically charged, beautifully photographed new video for "Borders." In the video, directed by M.I.A., the artist hops aboard...

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David Bowie, Radiohead, Robert Plant Sign Climate Change Petition

David Bowie, Robert Plant, David Gilmour, Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Phil Selway, Coldplay, My Morning Jacket, Yoko Ono and Björk are among the dozens of artists in the creative community to sign an open letter addressed to the leadership of the upcoming Paris Climate Conference outlining significant changes to the United Nations' climate...

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Gus Kenworthy: Rebel Skier

As one of the top freestyle skiers in the world – known for what many consider to be the greatest half-pipe run ever, with four consecutive double-corks – Gus Kenworthy had to make himself at home in the testosterone-jacked world of action sports. "I wanted so badly to fit in, and...

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Hear Waylon Jennings Sing 'Outlaw Bit' on Tour in 1979

In 1976, Wanted! The Outlaws assembled the best of the Outlaw Movement in the studio, with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter and Tompall Glaser lending some of their best material to the compilation. But a new recording of Jennings on tour in 1979 captures the outlaw attitude live onstage....

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Inside John Malkovich's Eerie, Plato-Quoting New Album

Two years ago, composer Eric Alexandrakis wrote an ambient piece of music titled "Cryogenia π [Requiem For Humanity]" that was "very freeform and free-flowing and had this time-warp, evolving vibe to it." He visualized an actor reciting Plato's "The Allegory of the Cave" — a text suggested by his philosophy...

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Apes Throw Jungle Dance Party in Coldplay's 'Adventure of a Lifetime' Video

Dancing apes seemed like a strange addition for Coldplay's otherwise straightforward performance of new single "Adventure of a Lifetime" at the American Music Awards, but now it all makes sense: The band have unveiled their new video for the A Head Full of Dreams track, and it boasts a group...

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