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• Gonerfest 13 lineup: Fred & Toody, Reigning Sound (original lineup), Spray Paint, Chook Race & more

  30-06-2016 23:28
  
  Plus: Spray Paint release "Brat Beater" video and announce tour with The Rebel.
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• Lydia Lunch playing shows, featured in NY punk photo book 'History is Made at Night'

  30-06-2016 23:23
  
  'History is Made at Night' also has fellow no wavers James Chance and Anya Phillips, plus Ramones, Talking Heads, Blondie, an intro by Jim Jarmusch, and more.
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• War cry: Trump opening acts raise eyebrows, pump up crowds

  30-06-2016 23:18
  
  Donald Trump's opening acts pump up his crowds in ways that raise eyebrows
  
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• Review: How the magic of movies unlocked a boy's mind

  30-06-2016 23:15
  
  Film review: 'Life, Animated' is the beautifully told story of how the magic of movies _ in this case, Disney animated films _ unlocked the mind of one autistic boy and helped him re-connect with the world around him
  
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• The Latest: More than half of US Olympic roster spots filled

  30-06-2016 23:14
  
  Two Americans qualify for Olympics in 20K race walk
  
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• CBS reporter traveling to 59 parks in a year

  30-06-2016 23:12
  
  To celebrate the centennial of the National Park Service, CBS reporter is visiting 59 parks in a year
  
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• 'The Hunt' casts animal world's predators in new light

  30-06-2016 22:48
  
  Watching a polar bear stalking a doe-eyed seal for a meal tends to put our warm feelings for the bear on ice
  
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• ScHoolboy Q releases "Tookie Knows II: Part (2)" video

  30-06-2016 22:17
  
  ScHoolboy Q's new album Blank Face drops July 8, and he's continuing to put out singles ahead of its release. Now, Q has released a follow up to his "By Any Means (Part 1)" music video he dropped last week...
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• Diet Cig headlining Knitting Factory, playing tons of cool fests

  30-06-2016 21:43
  
  Local rising energetic duo Diet Cig, who were already one of the buzziest acts at SXSW this year, are keeping the upward trajectory going with impressive booking after impressive booking...
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• Bill Callahan played six shows in three nights at Baby's All Right w/ Sunwatchers (pics / setlists)

  30-06-2016 21:31
  
  Bill Callahan (aka Smog) performed an impressive six shows in three nights at Baby's All Right Sunday-Tuesday (26-28), with early and late shows each night...plus a quick stop at the Other Music Forever farewell show...
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• The Latest: Two earn Olympic spots in 20K race walk

  30-06-2016 21:30
  
  Two Americans qualify for Olympics in 20K race walk
  
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• Sound Of Silver Talk To Me: Growing Older With LCD Soundsystem

  30-06-2016 21:28 via bkmag.com
  
  The following is an excerpt from a brand new 33 1/3 release devoted to LCD Soundsystem’s Sound Of Silver, written by Ryan Leas, a contributing editor at Stereogum and freelancer at many other places. The book was surprise-released as it out now via Bloombury. You should probably buy it.The tension between looking back at your youth and the recognition of aging that pervades Sound Of Silver is all right there in the opener. The album starts of two minds. “Get Innocuous!” is a so
  
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• Zomby announces new album on Hyperdub ft. Burial and Darkstar

  30-06-2016 21:24
  
  Eight years after dropping a pair of excellent EPs on the label, Zomby has returned to Hyperdub to release his fourth album, Ultra, out September 2. Featuring labelmates and fellow post-rave vanguardists Burial and Darkstar, among others...
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• Chloe x Halle on Beyonce's label, touring Europe with her, then US with Andra Day

  30-06-2016 21:07
  
  Beyonce's management company Parkwood Entertainment recently launched a record label and signed three artists: LA duo Chloe x Halle, Brooklyn-via-Houston's Ingrid, and NYC's Sophie Beem. Chloe x Halle first took off with their cover of Beyonce's "Pretty Hurts," and Ingrid had previously worked with Bey behind the scenes...
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• Queen marks deadly Somme centenary at Westminster Abbey

  30-06-2016 21:02
  
  Queen Elizabeth II is attending a service at Westminster Abbey on the eve of the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, one of the deadliest chapters of World War I
  
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• “Siracusa” is filled with secrets

  30-06-2016 21:01
  
  It’s hard to imagine a better beach read than Siracusa, the new novel from Delia Ephron. If this was a movie, which it surely will become, the pitch meeting would go, it’s The Vacationers, meets The Talented Mr. Ripley, meets Gone Girl.
  Two couples, Lizzie and Michael; and Taylor and Finn, plus their 10-year-old, Snow, go on vacation together in Italy. Lizzie, a journalist who is struggling to find work and relevance, and Michael, a famous playwright who made a n
  
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• The Latest: Oprah Winfrey to appear at Essence Festival

  30-06-2016 20:53
  
  Oprah Winfrey, for the first time, to join speakers at this year's Essence Festival
  
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• Documents filed by some Prince claimants to become public

  30-06-2016 20:53
  
  A Minnesota judge overseeing the legal proceedings about Prince's estate will allow documents filed by some claimants to become public
  
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• Brad Paisley: West Virginia floods shocking, heartbreaking

  30-06-2016 20:37
  
  Singer Brad Paisley says he's shocked and heartbroken by the destruction from deadly flooding in his home state of West Virginia
  
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• Lochte, Phelps set up lone showdown at US Olympic trials

  30-06-2016 20:34
  
  Longtime rivals Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps set up their lone showdown at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials by qualifying first and second in the 200-meter individual medley Thursday
  
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• With an eye to Tuscany, Debi Mazar plots culinary future

  30-06-2016 20:20
  
  Amid acting career, Debi Mazar plots sequel to "Extra Virgin" cooking show and expanding her culinary and lifestyle footprint
  
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• Review: Tribute to Dennis Brown hails peerless reggae singer

  30-06-2016 20:13
  
  "We Remember Dennis Brown" is a much-deserved tribute to one of reggae's top crooners, a vocal marvel whose music was widely acclaimed in Jamaica and Britain and merits even broader attention worldwide
  
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• Apple Filed A New Patent That Might Change Your Live Music Experience Forever

  30-06-2016 20:07 via bkmag.com
  
  When I first started going to concerts, I would leave with half of the show comfortably saved to my phone. According to a new patent that Apple registered for this week, those days might be behind me for good. The patent, which was filed on 6/28, is for a new technology that will disable recording at shows. Now, when your hand creeps to your pocket as your favorite verse is being played, venues could hypothetically set up infrared emitters that will instruct your phone that recording at shows is
  
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• Cinemark attorneys want victims to pay $700K in legal fees

  30-06-2016 19:54
  
  Attorneys for Cinemark want victims of a 2012 shooting at one of its Colorado movie theaters to pay nearly $700,000 in legal fees after they unsuccessfully sued the theater chain
  
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• Rob Wasserman, accomplished bass player, dead at 64

  30-06-2016 19:47
  
  Highly respected bass player and composer Rob Wasserman has died at age 64
  
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• Music Review: Sara Watkins branches out

  30-06-2016 19:47
  
  On her new record, "Young in All the Wrong Ways," Sara Watkins branches out, leaving old patterns behind
  
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• The Latest: Lochte 1st, Phelps 2nd in 200M individual medley

  30-06-2016 19:44
  
  Ryan Lochte qualified fastest for the 200-meter individual medley semifinals at the U.S. Olympic trials, with Michael Phelps in second
  
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• Pizza Rat’s Protégé, Pizza Squirrel, Comes to Brooklyn

  30-06-2016 19:35 via bkmag.com
  
  My relationship with squirrels has suffered this past year. Last summer, after being away for a week, I reentered my apartment to find a giant squirrel tail poking directly through my AC door. This means a live adult squirrel was sitting partially inside of my apartment. I knocked on the window to scare it away—it was stubborn and wouldn’t leave—then, finally,  it scampered only a few feet from view. Phew, I thought. Then it got worse.
  I started hearing tin
  
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• Former Glasslands Owners Will Open New Bushwick Venue This Fall

  30-06-2016 19:33 via bkmag.com
  
  Two Octobers ago, the music venue Glasslands Gallery announced that its last day of operation would be New Years Eve 2014. The venue was helmed by Rami Haykal and Jake Rosenthal of PopGun Presents and undoubtedly changed the landscape of Williamsburg at the time by becoming hot spot for innovative, important artists like Blood Orange, Lana Del Rey, Charli XCX, Grimes, and FKA Twigs and many, many more.Their final show, Lastlands boasted a lineup featuring DIIV, Sky Ferreira, The Smith Westerns,
  
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• Ten of the Very Best Hot Dogs in Brooklyn

  30-06-2016 19:30 via bkmag.com
  
  Ever since a German gentleman named Charles Feltman debuted a “red hot” cart on the Coney Island boardwalk back in 1867 (and was eventually, enduringly succeeded by one-time apprentice, Nathan Handwerker), Brooklyn has been inextricably linked with hot dogs. And come summer, demand increases exponentially for the borough’s signature, beach and ballfield-friendly dish, which is why we’ve rounded up 10 of our very favorite franks.Feltman’s
  Back in Brooklyn after 62 ye
  
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• Shoppers, Not Makers: How Artists and Fleas Became a Bicoastal Shopping Mecca

  30-06-2016 19:10 via bkmag.com
  
  On a breezy day in June, Amy Abrams and Ronen Glimer—married co-founders of the thirteen-year-old market Artists & Fleas—walked me through their Crown Heights home. Upstairs, Abrams showed us the master bedroom—tidy and punctuated with eclectic objects and pictures—and then walked us past an office, whose handsome sliding door was purchased in Jodhpur, India, and finally to the bedrooms of their daughters, Ruby and Noa. A garland of multicolored pom-poms hung abo
  
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• You Will Swoon Through Bat For Lashes’ Tender And Traumatic New Album The Bride

  30-06-2016 19:07 via bkmag.com
  
  Natasha Khan has a voice like a public spectacle; it shimmers with drama and magnificence, beckoning your attention but also training your ear toward trauma. This makes her voice an easy veil for darkness, because it feels and sounds like a safe place, only to twist the knife lyrically and deliver operatic nightmares and tales of terror. Khan’s solo work as Bat for Lashes has reached a summit on The Bride, her fourth full-length record and a concept album of sorts.
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• Scarlett Johansson ranked Hollywood's top-grossing actress

  30-06-2016 19:04
  
  Scarlett Johansson has taken the crown as Hollywood's highest grossing actress ever
  
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• Dreamworks: The BFG

  30-06-2016 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  The BFGDirected by Steven SpielbergOpens July 1
  Steven Spielberg, the most commercially successful director of all time, has said that one reason he wanted to direct The BFG was to check off a surprising box: Disney was the only remaining major studio he had never made a movie for. Old-school Disney was obviously a major influence formative on the director—recall the military man bawling at Dumbo way back in 1941—but his aesthetic grew up quite different, even (or especially) in his
  
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• The Latest: Grevers considers scratch from 200M backstroke

  30-06-2016 18:57
  
  Matt Grevers considers scratching from 200-meter backstroke
  
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• Wisecracking De Niro touts Catskills with NY governor

  30-06-2016 18:47
  
  A wisecracking Robert De Niro summoned up the faded glory of the Catskills at an event with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to highlight tourism
  
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• Heather Watson punishes herself by reading Twitter comments

  30-06-2016 18:43
  
  After a bad loss, Heather Watson sometimes punishes herself by reading hateful comments posted on Twitter
  
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• World champ Cheruiyot qualifies for Rio at Kenya trials

  30-06-2016 18:11
  
  World champion Vivian Cheruiyot has qualified for the Olympics by winning the women's 10,000 meters at Kenya's track and field trials
  
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• Moviegoers to Hollywood: It better be good

  30-06-2016 18:08
  
  As Hollywood girds for a low-key Fourth of July box office weekend and watches its summer season dip 15 percent below last year's, an even more worrisome trend has taken shape: Moviegoers are growing pickier
  
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• August Laura Crosses Classic Italian Cocktails with the Spirit of a Dive

  30-06-2016 18:00 via bkmag.com
  
  In New York City, if you hear someone say, “a cocktail bar has just opened,” your ears don’t perk too much. We have an abundance of at least one thing, and that’s a place to sit down and drink. However: When a place to do that is opened by people revered in their industry, an ear will perk plenty. And so ours did, too, with a new bar that riffs on Italian cocktails in Carroll Gardens, August Laura.
  Opened by industry veterans Alyssa Sartor (
  
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• 25 Of The Best Treadmill Pop Songs

  30-06-2016 17:57 via bkmag.com
  
  Well it’s already almost July which means getting in shape for the summer is already a long lost dream. But getting in shape during the summer isn’t, so I have begun to hit the treadmill with the same regularity that consume rosé (Read: 3-4 times a week, in the evenings). If nothing else, at least the two habits will cancel each other out, right?
  New York summer “weather”–aka Hades incarnate–is in full swing, which means we have already hit temperatures
  
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• Here come the virtual reality Olympics ... for Samsung users

  30-06-2016 17:49
  
  NBC will produce 85 hours of virtual reality programming for the upcoming Rio Olympics _ but only for users of Samsung Galaxy smartphones and the Samsung Gear VR headset
  
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• HLN's Nancy Grace leaving her legal show

  30-06-2016 17:19
  
  Nancy Grace, the tough-talking prosecutor whose HLN show avidly followed sensational legal cases, is leaving
  
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• #IllKillHer: The Purge: Election Year

  30-06-2016 17:00 via bkmag.com
  
  The Purge: Election Year
  Directed by James DeMonacoOpens July 1
  The third installment in this unlikely franchise is a long, vulgar ad for Hillary—with enough violence done to her stand-in to satisfy conservative fetishists who might vicariously enjoy, say, pressing a knife against the former secretary of state’s throat. The inherent of-the-moment relevance of the series’ dystopian 21st century, in which all crime is legal for 12 hours so the country can shake its sillies out,
  
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• Your Culture Essentials for July

  30-06-2016 16:49
  
  Photo: Adam Carter via Flickr
  There will be plenty of fireworks this month, both in the sky and on our social calendars. July’s cultural events are full of glitter, surprise and overwrought emotion—all of which can be found in our first pick, a screening of Death Becomes Her in Bushwick. The other nine entries on the countdown this month, from a beach read centered around an art-world mystery to a psychedelically immersive screening, are equally as incendiary. Read on
  
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• NBC to offer VR Olympics content to Samsung users

  30-06-2016 16:01
  
  NBC says it will provide 85 hours of virtual reality content during the Rio Olympics in August _ but only to users of Samsung Galaxy smartphones and the Samsung Gear VR headset
  
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• Welcome to Music City: An Illustrated Guide to Nashville

  30-06-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Nashville and music are so historically entwined that sometimes it’s hard to discern where one begins and the other ends; the city is the music and music is the city. Before I’d even heard a single “y’all” on my first trip to the Athens of the south, a facsimile of the city’s infamous honky tonk, Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, had come into view in the airport terminal—and yes, an aspiring musician was singing her heart out on a mid-afternoon weekday. A
  
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• An Englishman Abroad: Our Kind of Traitor

  30-06-2016 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Our Kind of TraitorDirected by Susanna WhiteOpens July 1
  Arriving amid roiling speculation about what a post-Brexit world would look like, the contemporary espionage thriller Our Kind of Traitor, with its breezy Continent-hopping and its atmosphere of Cold War hangover, all of a sudden already feels like something of a comfort-food period movie. In the film, an adaptation of a 2010 novel by John le Carré, an “ordinary” English couple—poetics lecturer Perry (Ewan McGrego
  
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• A 9-year-old sleuth has book deal for detective series

  30-06-2016 16:00
  
  One of the world's youngest sleuths, 9-year-old Hilde Lysiak, has a book deal
  
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• Chechen leader Kadyrov seeks apprentice on reality TV show

  30-06-2016 15:24
  
  A powerful and controversial man is taking to reality TV to find an assistant -- not Donald Trump but the leader of Chechnya
  
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