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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Is the Epic We Truly Need Right Now: Review

The ancient poem becomes a fierce anti-war fable, starring Matt Damon. Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Is the Epic We Truly Need Right Now: Review Liz Shannon Miller

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How Did Madonna’s ‘Confessions II’ Score Such a Successful First-Week Debut?

This week's Five Burning Questions looks at the Billboard 200-topping sequel set, and how the Queen of Pop pulled off her best numbers in over a decade for its first week.

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Pasek & Paul Play Ball With Savannah Bananas For Single ‘Show Starts Now’

Derek Klena performs the Savannah Bananas baseball team’s first-ever original single, "Show Starts Now.”

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Phoebe Bridgers Performs “Lost Boys” on Fallon

She made a surprise appearance to give the Lost Weekend track its TV debut

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Beck Announces First Album in Seven Years

Listen to “In the Night” from Ride Lonesome, which reunites Beck with Joey Waronker, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, and Nigel Godrich

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Fiona Apple's New Lucky Theme Song “Horns of a Bull”

The track is stylistically in line with Fetch the Bolt Cutters

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‘The Odyssey’ review: cinema may have peaked with Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster epic

Featuring a star-studded cast and towering set pieces, this mind-boggling adventure needs to be seen on the big screen

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“If I didn’t have AutoTune, I probably wouldn’t have a career, to be honest. I certainly would have less hits”: Pop producer Ian Kirkpatrick on the importance of AutoTune, and how it enabled him to use a Dua Lipa demo vocal on a finished track

“The vocal on it is the vocal we recorded on the day on an SM7, realtime AutoTune, on the couch. I just left it on the track and that was it”

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"This is is 1000% going on every single mix": Baby Audio's SubCulture is a pitch-tracking bass enhancer designed for "massive low-end"

Baby Audio says SubCulture combines three bass enhancement engines with saturation and compression for "powerful low-end that translates across any speaker setup"

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South Korea bill would require music distributors to screen tracks for content harmful to minors before release

If a track is judged harmful and its creator is under 19, the distributor must block it from release, according to The Korea Times. Source

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Madonna's "Confessions II" Debut

This week's Five Burning Questions looks at the Billboard 200-topping sequel set, and how the Queen of Pop pulled off her best numbers in over a decade for its first week.

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Savannah Bananas Original Single

Derek Klena performs the Savannah Bananas baseball team’s first-ever original single, "Show Starts Now.”

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Phoebe Bridgers on Fallon

She made a surprise appearance to give the Lost Weekend track its TV debut

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Beck's New Album

Listen to “In the Night” from Ride Lonesome, which reunites Beck with Joey Waronker, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, and Nigel Godrich

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Fiona Apple's New Theme Song

The 40-second track is stylistically in line with Fetch the Bolt Cutters

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Listen to Fiona Apple’s New Lucky Theme Song “Horns of the Bull”

The 40-second track is stylistically in line with Fetch the Bolt Cutters

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Listen to Fiona Apple’s New Lucky Theme Song “Horns of a Bull”

The track is stylistically in line with Fetch the Bolt Cutters

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Suede announce ‘Coming Up’ 30th anniversary reissue along with 12 inch singles collection

The band have shared a first taster from the reissue - a rare BBC recording of 'Beautiful Ones'

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Pasek & Paul Play Ball With Savannah Bananas For Single ‘Show Starts Now’

Derek Klena performs the Savannah Bananas baseball team’s first-ever original single, "Show Starts Now.”

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Phil Collins Announces Face Value (Full Value) 45th Anniversary Box Set

Featuring unreleased live recordings, rarities, demos and outtakes and arriving on September 18th. Phil Collins Announces Face Value (Full Value) 45th Anniversary Box Set Paolo Ragusa