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It’s summertime, so I’m offering two great beach reads: Spencer Pratt’s The Guy You Loved to Hate: Confessions from a Reality TV Villain and Richard Hofstadter’s The Paranoid Style in American Politics. Stay with me. Both books have been on my mind — no, seriously — as red America tries to parse election returns from Los Angeles where Pratt just finished third in the city’s mayoral primary. There’s a certain segment of the nation that can’t seem to understand how Pratt, a registered Republican and Trump voter, could not have finished in the top two and advanced to the November…

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Rush's Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson stunned fans by breaking out their entire 1976 mini-rock-opera on night two of their Fifty Something Tour Attention all planets of the Solar Federation: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson aren't taking their new lease on life as Rush for granted. They promised to switch up the set list on their Fifty Something Tour, but fans had no idea they'd pull off the stunner they unveiled at night two of the tour at Los Angeles' Kia Forum on Tuesday. On night one, Rush began their second set with a chunk of 1976's mini-rock-opera “2112” —…

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Bravo announced in April that it would launch a full investigation into how audio from the Summer House reunion made it to the public. Fortuitously, an adroit private eye was available to help: Jennifer Lawrence. On Tuesday's episode of Watch What Happens Livehost Andy Cohen thanked the Oscar-winning actress for providing info that exposed the scofflaw staffer responsible for the leak. “A Bravo superfan provided some crucial information that helped confirm the source,” he said. “Well, with the last reunion episode having aired tonight, I wanted to personally thank that superfan. Folks, that superfan was indeed Jennifer Lawrence … Her…

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vote8.0 Bands: CRIPPLE BASTARDS Duration: 00:13:07 Available from: 12/06/2026 Label: FOAD Records Streaming not yet available. Cripple Bastards means first of all coherence and intransigence stretched to the point. A tradition of sounds, words and images that has been renewed with lucid nihilism for almost forty years, yet managing to always remain faithful to itself and its gray aesthetic of a collapsing urban suburb.In this context, within which the Asti team can now afford anything – no longer having to prove anything to anyone and no longer feeling the need to respect the 'regular' timing of the market – “Your…

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L’Rain is back with a new album. Fata Morgana arrives August 14, via Mexican Summer, preceded by the salvo of “Soulless Cycle,” which you can hear below. The hell-raising track comes with an elliptical video directed by Mackai Sharp.L’Rain’s Taja Cheek bills Fata Morgana as the culmination of a quadrilogy that began with her 2017 self-titled debut, followed by Fatigue and I Killed Your Dog. She made the new LP with longtime collaborators Ben Chapoteau-Katz and Andrew Lappin.Read Clover Hope’s 2023 interview L’Rain Talks Shattering Expectations With Her “Basic Bitch” Album, I Killed Your Dog.Fata Morgana:01 Rumors of Light02 With Time03…

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Here's an interesting proof of the idea that America is still a young nation: Since we're turning 250, anyone who's 83 or older has been around for a full third of the official national story. These people are, we think, important witnesses to this fraught moment in our civic life — they have the baseline to judge the present against a past long enough to really see what's special about right now. And when we asked a number of them for their views this spring, they didn't hold back. Now, a caveat. Third Act, which we launched five years to…

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From “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” in 1972 to “I Shall Be Released” just this year At the third annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony back in January 1988, the same night that Beach Boy Mike Love blasted just about everyone in the room, Bruce Springsteen walked up to the podium and delivered a much more gracious speech to induct Bob Dylan. “Dylan was a revolutionary – the way that Elvis freed your body, Bob freed your mind,” Springsteen said. “He showed us that just because the music was innately physical, it did not mean that…

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Mitski has shared covers of One Direction and Frank Sinatra as part of her ‘Puberty 2’ 10th anniversary reissue. Listen below. READ MORE: Mitski – ‘Nothing’s About To Happen To Me’ review: wit and warmth define her best album yet This month marks 10 years since Mistki released her seminal fourth studio album, and to celebrate, she’s sharing a new deluxe edition. The digital version is out now (download here), while a limited edition coloured vinyl is out on October 30 via Dead Oceans – you can pre-order it here. The digital version comes alongside new lyric videos for hits ‘I…

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