Month: August 2023

Garbage‘s frontwoman Shirley Manson has explained why bands shouldn’t worry about placing on festival line-ups over time. Manson recently shared a photo on social media of 1998’s Reading Festival lineup, in which Garbage were headlining on the same day that New Order were performing. She explained how daunting it was to see that her band
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Rising alt-R&B singer/songwriter Casper Sage has returned with his new EP, Synthesis+.  The project contains six songs, all written by Sage, that are meant to bring light to a dark time. Three tracks were released ahead of Synthesis+: “is this real life?” “FML” and “Flow State.”  “U4EA,” which has hints of Michael Jackson’s “The Way You Make
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T.I. and Tiny Harris asked a court to award them almost $165,000 after several claims in Sabrina Peterson’s defamation lawsuit were dismissed. According to Radar Online, the Harrises believed they were entitled to recoup money spent in their legal battle against Peterson. “The Harrises’ request for $164,650.56 in attorneys’ fees and costs is reasonable and
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Why the track/video twofer premiere of “Annihilated Prestige,” you ask? Well, because NYC grindcore outfit Manipulator have made a video for every track on their upcoming second full-length, Drawing Secret Circles. Ergo, if we’re gonna do a track premiere, might as well peep the accompanying video, no? The ugly, twisted and distorted black and white visuals accompanying
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Warning! The following contains spoilers from the Ahsoka episode “Time To Fly.” Read at your own risk! I’m enjoying watching Ahsoka (streaming with a Disney+ subscription) so far, but one common story element in these first three episodes has me pulling out my tin foil Jedi robe and spinning conspiracy theories. For this is yet
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Dante Bowe is living his life unapologetically, even amid what he calls “a transitional season.” The inspirational singer and songwriter made his introduction in 2017 with his debut album, Son of a Father. “I was just a kid at that time — early twenties — discovering myself,” Bowe tells Rated R&B over a Zoom call.
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Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads has said that the re-release of their film Stop Making Sense acted as somewhat of a “healing experience” for the band. The musician reflected on the 1983, Jonathan Demme-directed concert film in a new interview on the Kyle Meredith With… podcast, and explained how re-releasing the film has helped the
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In the third season of the smash hit Cartoon Network series, Adventure Time, an episode set an alternate reality aired which introduced gender-swapped versions of main protagonists, Finn and Jake, named Fionna and Cake (who is also a cat, unlike her alternate canine counterpart). Before the imaginative animated series ended in 2018, the duo would
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