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George Stephanopoulos has tested positive for Coronavirus. The Good Morning America anchor shared the health update on the morning show on Monday, April 13. Stephanopoulos’ wife, Ali Wentworth, previously tested positive for Coronavirus. “I’m one of those cases that are basically asymptomatic,” Stephanopoulos told Robin Roberts and Michael Strahan on Monday. “I’ve never had a fever, never had
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Pure X—the trio of Nate Grace, Jesse Jenkins V, and Austin Youngblood—has announced their first new album in six years. The band’s self-titled fourth album arrives May 1 via Fire Talk, with a physical release to follow on July 3. The announcement comes with two new songs, “Middle America” and “Fantasy.” Check those out below.
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A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip has announced three upcoming albums. In a video posted on his Instagram account on April 10 (also his 50th birthday), Q-Tip sat playing a bass riff as text appeared announcing three titles: Algorhythms, Riot Diaries, and The Last Zulu. Q-Tip also wrote: “Thank u god willing I will get with
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John Prine died on April 7 of COVID-19 complications. He was 73. Tributes have been pouring in from the music world in the days following his passing. Today, Roger Waters of Pink Floyd shared a cover of “Paradise” from Prine’s debut self-titled album. “Miss you, brother.” Watch it happen below. Following Prine’s death, countless genre-spanning
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Sturgill Simspon has tested positive for COVID-19, as the singer revealed via a post to his Instagram account earlier today. Simpson said he first sought medical attention on March 13, when he began to experience “chest pains, fever, and pre-stroke blood pressure levels,” but was unable to be tested for coronavirus until April 6. He
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Travis Nelsen, longtime drummer in Austin indie rock group Okkervil River, has died. Okkervil River announced the news in a statement on their Instagram account on April 9. “Travis Nelsen, Okkervil River’s drummer from 2003-2010, passed away on Tuesday,” the band wrote. “He was a radiant, hilarious, charismatic, generous, passionate human being with a heart
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Jimmy Fallon, Sting and The Roots have an anthem for these times.  Amid the ongoing coronavirus and resulting sweeping social distancing, the Tonight Show host teamed up with the 18-time Grammy winner for another round of his show’s signature: performing hit songs with peculiar objects. While they typically use classroom instruments or office supplies for this segment, given
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Phoebe Bridgers was the musical guest on last night’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where she teleconferenced in from her bathtub to perform “Kyoto.” Bridgers accompanied herself on synthesizer. Check it out below. Last month, Jeff Tweedy and his sons performed “Evergreen” for Kimmel while sitting in their bathroom. Bridgers’ new album Punisher—the follow-up to
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Broadway will remain closed through June 7, a two-month extension of the current coronavirus shutdown that would seem to retroactively end the 2019-2020 Broadway season with the March 12 shutdown. The extension announcement was made today by the Broadway League, the trade group representing theater owners and producers, which had been in discussions with theatrical
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Twitter Wanda Dench—the grandmother who won the internet over after she accidentally texted a Thanksgiving invite to an unknown teenager and had him over for dinner—is mourning the death of her husband Lonnie Dench.  According to local news outlet Arizona Family, Lonnie passed away from coronavirus this past Sunday. “He had the truest heart of love,
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The Roots’ Black Thought is the latest guest on NPR’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert, the domestic spin on the popular session series. From a black armchair flanked by Grammys, he played “Thought Vs. Everybody” and “Nature of the Beast” from the forthcoming Streams of Thought Vol. 3, as well as “Yellow” from his off-Broadway musical Black
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Dennis Leupold/USA Network Todd Chrisley is on the mend after testing positive for coronavirus.  The Chrisley Knows Best star and wife Julie Chrisley revealed the news on Wednesday’s episode of their podcast, Chrisley Confessions.  “Can we talk about this bitch called corona?” he shared. “I have been battling corona for 3 weeks. I was in the hospital for 4
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Randy Newman has written a new COVID-19-inspired song at the request of Southern California radio station KPCC. After noting that the station asked for a personal message about social distancing (“Apparently there’s some disease that’s going around”), Newman instead sits at the piano to perform an original song called “Stay Away.” It includes instructional lyrics
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