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5:00 PM EDT on August 17, 2026 Usually performers have to worry about fans in the audience throwing projectiles at them — just earlier this month, Billy Strings was the latest victim, getting hit in the head with an object rumored to be a lighter. However, som…
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5:00 PM EDT on August 17, 2026 Usually performers have to worry about fans in the audience throwing projectiles at them — just earlier this month, Billy Strings was the latest victim, getting hit in the head with an object rumored to be a lighter. However, som…
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4:47 PM EDT on August 17, 2026 Maybe it's news to you that Columbia House was still operational in 2026. It was news to me, but that news is immediately invalidated by newer news: After 71 years, the longstanding mail-order media club is shutting down next mon…
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4:29 PM EDT on August 17, 2026 Joe Rogan has discovered Turnstile. The podcaster has somehow made it through the past few years without hearing about the biggest hardcore band in the world, but he finally learned about them during the 2,539th episode of The Jo…
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Dr. Josh Levitt, co-founder and medical director of UpWellness said that people were stopping by his booth all day to talk about the environment, health, and to taste new supplements. Levitt said, "I am here for it" when referring to the festival's "barefoot, …
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11:59 AM EDT on August 17, 2026 Way back in 2014, when she was just coming off of the success of her mega-hit "Call Me Maybe" and working on her critically beloved album E·MO·TION, Carly Rae Jepsen made her Broadway debut, playing the lead role in the musical …
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Columbia House, the 71-year-old mail-order music club that is somehow still operating in 2026, is finally closing for good. ”After 9/15/26, The Columbia House will no longer be accepting new orders,” reads a recent message on its website. “You can still purcha…
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9:55 AM EDT on August 17, 2026 Back in 1971, when he was just coming off the release of his solo debut Cold Spring Harbor, the 22-year-old Billy Joel gave a college radio interview on Long Island. A recording of that interview was recently rediscovered, and no…
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0.0 0.0 Reader Score No score yet, be the first to add. 0.0 Genre: Electronic Label: Houndstooth Release Date: 2026 When Felix Manuel, aka Djrum, released the brain-scrambling Under Tangled Silence last year, his composition and production finally caught up to…
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0.0 0.0 Reader Score No score yet, be the first to add. 0.0 Genre: Rock Label: Perennial Release Date: 2026 Kiwi Jr.’s fourth album, Blowin’ Up, radiates a frantic, bottom-of-the-ninth hopefulness. After releasing three albums in four years, including two …
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0.0 0.0 Reader Score No score yet, be the first to add. 0.0 Genre: Rock Label: Lame-O Release Date: 2026 Distorting Time is the sixth album by Radiator Hospital, the project of prolific Philadelphia singer-songwriter Sam Cook-Parrott, whose 19th-century ancest…
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0.0 0.0 Reader Score No score yet, be the first to add. 0.0 Genre: Rock Label: Fiction Release Date: 2026 The current cult status of the Windmill—the famed South London venue/indie-rock incubator/rite of passage—cannot be overstated. After the breakthrough suc…
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