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June is Black Music Month, which was founded by President Jimmy Carter in 1979 to honor the contributions of Black musicians."During Black Music Month, we pay homage to legends of American music, who have composed the soundtrack of American life," reads this year's annual proclamation of the month-long celebration from President Biden.

While we may earn a commission if you buy something through these links, we make unbiased, independent decisions about what to recommend.Coffee-table books are the quintessential holiday gifts (much like )-they please the eye, look chic in any home, and you can find them in a variety of themes and photography styles.

Before airing on HBO, the drama The Idol dominated headlines and social media for its controversies: At the Cannes Film Festival, where the first two episodes premiered, the series was widely panned for its graphic sexual content; it was rewritten and reshot after Sam Levinson, the creator of the series Euphoria, replaced Amy Seimetz as its director; and in March, Rolling Stone published an article detailing a troubled production.

In March, Rolling Stone published an article detailing the trouble-plagued production of The Idol, a new HBO drama from the Euphoria creator Sam Levinson.According to the magazine, nearly 80 percent of the show, about a pop singer (Lily-Rose Depp) who falls under the spell of a Svengali figure (the Weeknd), had been filmed with the director Amy Seimetz before Levinson stepped in to rewrite and reshoot the entire thing.

The animated sci-fi comedy Rick and Morty will recast its title roles after severing ties with Justin Roiland, a voice actor and the show's co-creator, who has a pretrial hearing in April for felony domestic abuse charges from 2020.Adult Swim, Cartoon Network's nighttime adult programming block, announced on Tuesday that it had ended its association with Roiland.

Angelo Badalamenti, an internationally sought-after composer who wrote the hypnotic theme to Twin Peaks, David Lynch's 1990s television drama series, and the music for five Lynch films, including Blue Velvet (1986), died on Sunday at his home in Lincoln Park, N.J.He was 85.His niece Frances Badalamenti confirmed the death.

During the Trump presidency, one of the strongest currents in our culture was the struggle for social justice, from #MeToo to Black Lives Matter to the recognition of proliferating gender identities.Now, one of the strongest currents is the backlash to all of that.Resentment of strident progressive politics unites the hapless CNN chief Chris Licht, who complained, in an Atlantic profile, that the network had been producing too much anti-Trump outrage porn, and the louche British rock star (and reputed Taylor Swift ex-boyfriend) Matty Healy, who complained, in a New Yorker profile, that artists are now expected to be liberal academics.

Thirty years ago, slackers everywhere were given the best do-nothing anthem of all time.On March 8, 1993, the ultimate Gen-X song dropped: "Loser" by Beck.Today, you can't imagine a self-indulgent, tongue-in-cheek song like this getting made, much less, rocketing into the top 10 on the Billboard charts.

Swifties, brace yourselves: Taylor Swift has new music on the horizon.Well, sort of.It's no secret the world has been in a lavender haze since Swift released last year.Now, the pop singer is offering stans a break from endlessly looping the album thanks to an upcoming collaboration with The National.

In a new column for AnOther, Elise By Olsen speaks with Vince Aletti about his fabled collection of books and magazines, and why the future of print is "endangered but healthy"



Lead Image Photography by Eli Rosenbloom

Paper View: How have people's lives been shaped by the print matter they collect?

Lily-Rose Depp as Jocelyn.HBO The big questions about HBO's The Idol weren't quite answered by its super-stylish, yet oddly inert opening episode Sunday.The series, starring Lily-Rose Depp as a pop star who has come through a mental health crisis and gets seduced by a hipster club owner/self-help guru/cult leader played by Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye, drew savage reviews after two episodes debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in France last month.

LOS ANGELES Jim Gordon, the famed session drummer who backed Eric Clapton and The Beach Boys before being diagnosed with schizophrenia and going to prison for killing his mother, has died.He was 77. Gordon died Monday at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation confirmed Thursday.

Singer Roberta Flack, performing during the 52nd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in 2010.Kevin Winter/Getty Images The beloved singer Roberta Flack has announced through a spokesperson that she is battling ALS.The brain disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or popularly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, has made it "impossible to sing and not easy to speak," the spokesperson said in a press release on Monday.

Very few solo music artists in history have been capable of selling out Soldier Field for three consecutive nights.For that reason alone, Taylor Swift's Friday-through-Sunday stand in Chicago this weekend with her "Eras" tour is noteworthy.Given the demand for tickets, it's fair to say that Swift, who is generally performing in one city each week on her North American tour, could easily have played for two straight weeks at the stadium on Chicago's lakefront.

As you may have heard, Tina Turner has passed at the age of 83.It is pretty hard to describe how incredible, and important, she was over so many decades.When I was a kid, I knew of the Ike and Tina Turner Revue.Later just Tina.One thing was consistent: Tina Turner blew the lid off of any joint she played.

As chair of the Senate HELP Committee, Sanders has executives of all stripes in his crosshairs.Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a news conference in front of the U.S. Capitol on February 7, 2023, in Washington, D.C.Alex Wong / Getty Images Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), now in charge of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is pledging to go after executives for Starbucks, Big Pharma and railroads over their rampant greed - and he's not afraid to use his subpoena power to do so.

A professor at Texas A&M-Commerce failed more than half of his class after ChatGPT wrongly flagged papers.In a report by Rolling Stone, ChatGPT falsely flagged papers, resulting in diplomas being withheld.So how did this happen?Well according to the report, Dr. Jared Mumm, the professor in question, sent an email to the class in which he informed them that he had submitted three of their last essay assignments into OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Linda Lewis, a critically acclaimed soul singer and songwriter whose pyrotechnic voice propelled four Top 10 singles as a solo artist in her native Britain and led to work as a backup vocalist on acclaimed albums by stars like David Bowie, Cat Stevens and Rod Stewart, died on May 3 at her home in Waltham Abbey, outside London.

The Nebraska State Capitol, located in Lincoln, Nebraska.RJ Sangosti / The Denver Post via Getty Images A bill that would ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth in Nebraska was able to advance in the state legislature on Thursday, in spite of filibusters by Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh (D) slowing down all business since the start of the legislative session.

Tony Visconti's heart dropped when he started listening to the tapes.He had agreed to produce a live album by a band he loved Thin Lizzy even though David Bowie was also impatiently waiting for him to produce an album.Visconti figured the Thin Lizzy gig wouldn't take long and he could move on to the Bowie album.

"There's no need" for Trump to continue using Truth Social past this summer, one source close to him said.Former President Donald Trump leaves the stage after speaking during an event at his Mar-a-Lago home on November 15, 2022, in Palm Beach, Florida.Joe Raedle / Getty Images Former President Donald Trump is reportedly planning a big return to Twitter, one of the several sites that kicked him off their platforms in the wake of the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack.

The Mercury provides news and fun every single day-but your help is essential.If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us.Thanks for your support!Good morning, Portland!It's gonna cool down a bit this next week, but don't get used to it.

Hello, and happy new week to all of you gorgeous Trash Pandas!It's your girl, Elinor Jones, and you're reading THE TRASH REPORT.I hope that you, like me, drank too much yesterday but didn't wear enough sunscreen and are hungover and a little sunburned today.If you're gonna Monday, at least do it with physical evidence of a nice weekend, am I right?

The Mercury provides news and fun every single daybut your help is essential.If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us.Thanks for your support!Good morning, Portland!If last week's weather had you breaking out the jorts, you might want to opt for rain boots instead.

Ed Sheeran is a dad to two little girls, and in a recent interview, we finally learned the unique name he and his wife, Cherry Seaborn, gave to their second baby born 10 months ago.In the cover story for Rolling Stone, the musician opened up about his life at home with his family, and we think his daughter's name might help spark a new baby name trend.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus doesn't have time for ridiculous rumors surrounding a Seinfeld curse.The Veep Emmy winner and You Hurt My Feelings actress criticized the concept of the curse perpetuated by media outlets following the Seinfeld stars' respective career trajectories after the hit NBC series.Louis-Dreyfus, Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, and Michael Richards allegedly did not recreate the same level of fame as they did in the peak of the beloved show.

On a recent night at the New York music venue Webster Hall, a white-haired man in his 60s with an acoustic guitar walked gracefully onto the stage, sat on a stool and began to speak.I'm from Ivory Coast, he said in a voice barely above a whisper.I came a long way to America to play music for you and to tell you my story.

In 2021, five musicians from Hastings, England, noticed a hole in the market."There were no massive rock bands making huge, catchy, stadium-worthy anthems," says guitarist Chris Woodgates.So they started a group called Breezer and hit the recording studio."We shared our songs with friends, and everybody told us, 'This could be the new Oasis,'" says drummer Jon Claire.

PHILADELPHIA Alexandra Auder was almost born in the lobby of the Chelsea Hotel, then a febrile bohemian enclave on Manhattan's West 23rd Street, but her mother, Viva, a Warhol superstar, managed to make it to the hospital as the staff egged her on.A girl!I want a girl! a bellman declared, helping her into a taxi.

King Charles said he wanted to renew the special bond of friendship between the UK and Germany, without mentioning the B-word that has caused the friendship to grow cold in recent years, as he addressed the Bundestag in Berlin on Thursday.The monarch's speech was the first given to Germany's federal parliament by a non-elected head of state.

Ed Sheeran has collaborated with countless big names over the years - Beyoncé, Eminem, Justin Bieber, Camila Cabello, and the list goes on.But it turns out the 32-year-old singer had a huge celebrity feature in mind for his best selling song "Shape Of You" as well.In a recent cover interview with Rolling Stone, Sheeran revealed that he reached out to Jay-Z for a rap feature in the song.

Jim Gordon, a talented but troubled drummer who was ubiquitous in the recording studios of the 1960s and '70s and who, as a member of Eric Clapton's band Derek and the Dominos, helped write the romantic ballad Layla but who suffered from schizophrenia and spent nearly 40 years in prison, convicted of murdering his mother died on Monday in a prison medical facility in Vacaville, Calif.

Steven Tyler, the frontman of the rock band Aerosmith, has been accused in a lawsuit of sexually abusing a woman in the 1970s when she was a teenager and he was in his mid-20s.In the lawsuit, the woman, Julia Misley, accuses Mr. Tyler of using his status and power as a famous rock star to groom, manipulate, exploit and sexually assault her over the course of three years.

At last night's El Clasico at Camp Nou, fans at the stadium and around the world got a teaser that something might be happening, around Rosalía's "Abcdefg" song.This morning, Barcelona, Madrid and Mexico City woke up discovering an Out of Home campaign where billboards and posters have been taken over by CUPRA and Rosalía, one of the biggest and most relevant artists internationally.

With his new album, - (Subtract), Ed Sheeran is finally finishing his decade-long project of mathematically named albums.And next up, he already has another set of symbols waiting.Sheeran told Rolling Stone in a new cover that he was planning a series of five more albums, with names he doesn't want to share just yet.

Another day, another attempt to diminish Madonna 's legacy.With never-ending debate raging over the Queen of Pop's appearance, age-appropriateness, or the exorbitant ticket prices for her upcoming 40th anniversary Celebration tour, Rolling Stone decided to add fuel to the Madonna hater-ade by trashing one of the most controversial albums of her storied career, 2003's American Life.

P!nk has a new album, Trustfall, out now.She's been hitting the publicity trail, and appeared yesterday on The Howard Stern Show on Sirius.In one part of the interview, Stern asked the singer, 43, whether she was friends with any of her heroes growing up.Specifically, he asked if she was friends with Madonna.

Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones & The Six has finally made the leap from page to screen, and with it comes the actualization of the titular band's most impactful album: Aurora.(It's basically their Rumours.)Reid actually included lyrics for the fictional band's song in her 2019 novel - but as she told Rolling Stone, she's "not a musician," per se.

A decade ago, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis were an unstoppable force in popular music.The duo's breakout album, The Heist, and its ubiquitous no. 1 single, "Thrift Shop," were a spectacular collision of hip-hop and hipsterdom.Beneath his kitschy presentation, Macklemore was a painfully earnest backpack rapper who turned his relentless sincerity into his signature strength.

With Spring on the horizon, we're ready to turn the SX energy up with a third round of Showcasing Artists set to perform at the 2023 SXSW Music Festival from March 13-18 in Austin, TX.Feast your eyes and ears on the latest announcement featuring over 300 artists joining us from across the globe, ranging from up-and-comers to veterans.

The Byrds: Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) video Crosby co-founded the Byrds, cementing his place as a major architect of the 1960s folk-rock movement.The title track of the California group's second LP a Pete Seeger cover with lyrics largely plucked from the Book of Ecclesiastes pleads for peace while meditating on the sometimes bittersweet cyclical nature of life.

Steven Spielberg has always been a director who has poured his heart and soul into the movies that he makes - this has never been more evident than in his latest film, The Fabelmans.For all intents and purposes, The Fabelmans could have been called The Spielbergs, as it is inspired by the director's own life experiences and his passion for movie-making - a love affair that has spanned more than six decades and resulted in some of the greatest films of all time.

If the economics course at her sixth-form college hadn't been full, south London soul singer Debbie Ehirim might never have decided to study music.It was then that she realised her interest in music-making was more than just a childhood pleasure.She began religiously attending open mic nights and dabbling in theatre but also got a degree in finance.

Grunge.Wu-Tang Clan.Radiohead."Wonderwall."The music of the '90s was as exciting as it was diverse.But what does it say about the era-and why does it still matter?60 Songs That Explain the '90s is back for 30 more episodes to try to answer those questions.Join Ringer music writer and '90s survivor Rob Harvilla as he treks through the soundtrack of his youth, one song (and embarrassing anecdote) at a time.

His long and successful solo career notwithstanding, Crosby thrived on collaboration - a trait he discovered as a young child, after being mesmerized by a symphony orchestra performance."The idea of cooperative effort to make something bigger than any one person could ever do was stuck in my head," he wrote in his 1988 autobiography, Long Time Gone. "That's why I love being a harmony singer, why I love being in a group."

In 2020 the tightly knit and passionate world of self-published romance literature was shocked by the news that the novelist Susan Meachen, following bullying by other writers, had taken her own life.Meachen's grieving fans funded her funeral costs, according to members of the romance community, and helped edit and promote her final book.

NEW YORK Jeff Beck, a guitar virtuoso who pushed the boundaries of blues, jazz and rock n' roll, influencing generations of shredders along the way and becoming known as the guitar player's guitar player, has died.He was 78.Beck died Tuesday after suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis, his representatives said in a statement released Wednesday.

Feb. 3-5, 2023 San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, 255 S. Almaden Blvd., San Jose, CA
From Broadway San Jose:
"Grab the sticky geckos, break out the duck cakes, and alert the grannies!"It's time to meet the much-loved Heeler family, who will be coming to San Jose's Center for the Performing Arts (255 S. Almaden Blvd.) for a limited engagement with the Bluey live show, Bluey's Big Play The Stage Show!
"The Emmy® Award-winning animated preschool series, voted one of the best TV shows by Rolling Stone, currently airs on Disney Junior, Disney Channel, and Disney+.

Representative Fred Upton, a Republican from Michigan, listens during a news conference with members of the House Problem Solvers Caucus outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, July 30, 2021.The Senate is set to hold a second procedural vote on the $550 billion bipartisan infrastructure bill with the majority leader hoping to pass both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and a budget plan before the chamber goes on recess next week.

Steven Tyler performs during the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in November in Los Angeles.In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, a woman alleges she was 16 when the singer first sexually assaulted her.Chris Pizzello/Invision A woman has filed a lawsuit accusing Steven Tyler, the frontman of the rock band Aerosmith, of sexually abusing her in the 1970s when she was a teenager and he was in his 20s.

In 1975, when Fleetwood Mac was seeking a new guitarist, Mick Fleetwood told keyboardist Christine McVie that there's another girl involved.You're going to have to meet her and see if you like her.Lindsey Buckingham, the main candidate for the position, would only join the British-founded group  then made up of Mick and spouses John and Christine McVie  if his artistic and romantic partner at the time, Stevie Nicks, could participate as well.

The man who shot Lady Gaga's dogwalker during an attempt to steal the animals pleaded no contest to a charge of attempted murder Monday and was immediately sentenced to 21 years in prison.James Howard Jackson, 20, was the triggerman in the shooting of Ryan Fischer on Feb. 25, 2021, as Fischer was walking Lady Gaga's three French bulldogs on Sierra Bonita Avenue in Hollywood.

Yes, we know, you're nowhere near finished with Christmas shopping and have been blaring "All I Want for Christmas Is You" for weeks.But princess of art-pop Caroline Polachek is ready to move on to Valentine's Day, when she's set to release her long-in-the-making new solo album, Desire, I Want to Turn Into You.

Lil Durk wants to do his part in ending Chicago's violence.During an interview with Rolling Stone, the 7220 rapper expressed his feelings about speaking ill of the dead and vowed that he wouldn't rhyme about the deceased in any of his future raps.He also declared that he wanted to stop Chicago's violence altogether.