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Ariana Grande has dropped a video of her doing impressions of characters from the Harry Potter world, and fans can’t get enough. The singer and actor dropped the new video on Instagram, as part of a promotion for her make-up and beauty line R.E.M Beauty. Advertising a new product, Grande decided to do an assortment of impressions of the most popular Harry Potter characters, but reworking some of their most famous lines to promote the make-up. Starting with Molly Weasley, the mother of Ron Weasley played by Julie Walters, the singer reworked the line ‘Not my daughter, you bitch’ from…

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Months after releasing Secret Love, their third album, Dry Cleaning are giving the LP an upgrade. Secret Love (Deluxe Edition) is out now and boasts two new songs—“I Have the Key” and “Grass,” both of which get music videos by Bellyache—as well as the previously released single “Sliced by a Fingernail.” You can listen to those tracks below.“These are three short films that sum up our response to the record,” Bullyache said about the trio of hair-whipping visuals for Dry Cleaning. “We tried to contain all the beautiful conflicts and contrasts. Each video is a portrait of elation, grief, push…

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Multi-genre musician Meshell Ndegeocello is back with a new covers collection. Synonym will feature duets with artists including soul legend Chaka Khan and avant-garde visionary Anohni, and it arrives on Oct. 2 via Blue Note. The lead single, “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)” featuring Cynthia Erivo, is out now. Synonym is bolstered by duets with artists across several genres. The record features collaborations with Cat Power, Brandi Carlile, Bill Callahan, Lianne La Havas, Moses Sumney, Destin Conrad, Willow, Robert Glasper, Nick Hakim, Madison Cunningham, Laura Lee (of Khruangbin), Chris Thile, Lizz Wright, Emily King, Evann Mcintosh, and Ink.…

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Claudio Santamaria was a guest of SPOT – The Podcastthe program that Michele Monina And Massimiliano Longo they record live at the Spot Music Fest in Bareggio, in front of the audience of the young artists of the festival. Actor, director, recently director of the Milan Film Festival, Santamaria talked about his parallel musical career: that of a performer who sang Rino Gaetano, Modugno and, at the last Sanremo, Mina paired with Malika Ayane. Rino Gaetano, the actor forced to sing Santamaria says he started playing the guitar late, at seventeen, and that he sang for a long time only…

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Suede have announced plans for a 30th anniversary of reissue of their landmark LP ‘Coming Up’ along with a 12 inch singles collection. READ MORE: Suede: “I don’t think there’s any band of our generation still making records as vital as ours” The album, which was their third, shot to Number One in the UK albums chart and spawned five hit singles during the height of Britpop. It also earned the band their second Mercury Prize nomination. Hit singles like ‘Trash’, ‘Saturday Night’ and ‘Beautiful Ones’ are all staples of their live set today. The record was the band’s first…

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Fiona Apple has written a handful of new songs lately, and the latest functions as the theme for the Apple TV series Lucky. “Horns of the Bull” is one-minute-and-forty seconds of pattering drums, warm piano chords, and Apple’s sing-spoken cadence that gives way to a mid-track growl. Listen to it below.Lucky is a miniseries adaptation of Marissa Stapley’s 2021 novel about an international con-woman (Anya Taylor-Joy) on the run from FBI agents (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Mo McRae) and a ruthless crime boss (Annette Bening) after a multimillion-dollar heist goes wrong. Apple co-produced “Horns of the Bull” with Amy Aileen Wood, her…

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Back in early 2025, when Willi Carlisle was on tour with Tyler Childers in Australia, the two artists fostered what would become a creative partnership. Fueled by talks about the musicians they loved and some Wallace Stephens poetry, Carlisle was inspired to write “The Mason Jar at the Center of the World, the first single from his forthcoming double album, The Universal Bubba — which features Childers in the producer's chair. Due this November, it's the first record that Childers has produced, and finds the endlessly creative Carlisle honing and expanding his brand of folk music that leans into quirk…

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In Notes on the State of Virginia — Thomas Jefferson’s half-almanac, half-philosophical exploration published in 1785 — the founding father and future president writes about mixing various religions and faith traditions into one unified nation, and how a man’s god should and should not shape his politics. “The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others,” he writes. “But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”  But nearly 250 years after Jefferson wrote the words…

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Promise Me, America set for release shortly after November midterms Former President Joe Biden has kept a mostly low profile since exiting the Oval Office in 2024, when the current administration began aggressively undoing as many of his accomplishments as possible. It turns out, he's been writing his memoir. The book, Promise Me, Americawill come out on Nov. 17 and is available for preorder. Trending Stories Courtesy of Hachette Book Group In a video announcement, Biden, 83, said the book is about his faith in America. “It's about the challenges we faced as a nation,” he said. “[It’s] about the…

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