Music Monday: Common Dreams Big
The Chicago rapper’s ninth studio album, The Dreamer/The Believer, pings back and forth between dirty and uplifting.
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Listen to TIME’s Protest Song Playlist On Spotify
The Protester is TIME’s 2011 Person of the Year. In honor of that decision, we’ve put together a playlist of protest songs
Today’s Movie Trailer: Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator
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Ke$ha Covers Bob Dylan. And It’s All Right.
I’ve never really heard Ke$ha sing before. I’ve listened to her songs, but behind all the sound effects, strobe lights and multi-colored outfits, it’s often hard to tell what the pop star actually sounds like.
Music Monday: The Rise of the Christmas Album
I’m a Christmas music traditionalist. Whereas I happily seek out new bands and explore new music throughout the year (and not just because it’s my job), around the holidays I become so conservative, so unyielding in my song …
Listen: The Best Music of 2011 Is Now On Spotify
Earlier this week, TIME released its Best of 2011 lists, which included round-ups of our favorite songs and albums of the past year. Because we’re so nice — and because we never grew out of our adolescent mixtape phase — …
John and Yoko, as Never Before Seen: New Photos from the Famous ‘Bed In’
The Best Albums of 2011
Like crops and the stock market, the music industry has years of plenty and years of drought. 1965 saw several new songs that are now considered classic, such as Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone,” Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” and the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.” Can you imagine what that year-end Top …
Questlove Served Me Fried Chicken
On the eve of their new album release, The Roots’ drummer took over the kitchen at New York’s Blue Note jazz club to tout his new catering business.
Cowboys, Aliens, Snakes and Sharks: In Praise of Literal Movie Titles
This piece was originally published on TIME.com in August 2011. We are re-running it for the DVD release of Cowboys and Aliens.
I want to see the movie Cowboys & Aliens. I’m not particularly interested in a story of outer …
Madonna Will Play the Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show
NBC announced during last night’s Detroit Lions-New Orleans Saints football game that Madonna would be the headlining performer at the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show on Feb. 5, in Indianapolis.
Music Monday: Rock and Roll Is Alive and Well with The Black Keys
The Black Keys play rock and they play it straight. It’s hard to believe in an age of hyphenated genres and digitally-tweaked songs that two guys, a guitar and some drums would have anything left to offer. But on their new …
Will Pixar’s First Female Lead Break the Mold?
Have you seen the trailer for Pixar’s new movie, Brave? The animation studio’s new film follows a young Scottish girl who wants to be a warrior but whose family tries to force her into becoming a demure, ladylike maiden. On …