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2 weeks ago | 
pastemagazine.com | Sam Rosenberg
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. When Sleigh Bells broke out in 2010 with their masterful, electrifying debut Treats, it signaled a promising start to their career, especially as it arrived at a fruitful time in the indie scene.
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1 month ago | 
pastemagazine.com | Sam Rosenberg
One thing we can predict about Lady Gaga is her unpredictability. With each era, starting from her star-making 2008 debut The Fame to her 2020 utopian fantasia Chromatica, the pop icon’s defiance of expectations has always kept her Little Monsters on their toes.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
popaholic.substack.com | Sam Rosenberg
PopaholicReviews, recaps, musings, and essays on the latest trends in music, TV, film, and everything in between. No thanks
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Dec 15, 2024 | 
pastemagazine.com | Sam Rosenberg
Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Charli XCX has had quite the year—or decade, rather. Over the past 10 years, the British pop artist has seesawed between the margins and the mainstream, going from a London rave kid once mistaken for Lorde to an accidental slogan-maker for Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
medium.com | Sam Rosenberg
Sam Rosenberg·Follow8 min read·--MY FATHER (PART 1)To really understand me and my journey through life, you first must understand the man that was my father, Howard Rosenberg. He was born on January 16th, 1943, to Lillian and Sam Rosenberg (my namesake). He had two brothers, Shelwin and Robert, both older than him. From a very young age, his parents made it clear that my father was an accident, and they treated him as such.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
medium.com | Sam Rosenberg
Sam Rosenberg·Follow17 min read·--BARCELONA (April 17th — 18th, 2006)“Gun store, liquor store, gun store… Where the fuck you taking me!?!” — Dave Chappelle (Killing Em’ Softly)I arrived in Barcelona exhausted, in need of a serious recharge. Paris was, by all accounts, a disaster that I needed to wash off me, and Barcelona seemed like the perfect place to do so, given the ocean and beach vibes.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
popaholic.substack.com | Sam Rosenberg
“All unhappiness comes from not accepting what is” —A Different ManThanks for reading Popaholic! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. “If only her boobs were in the middle of her face instead of that nose!” —The SubstanceOur culture is cursed with the need to perfect our imperfections.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
popaholic.substack.com | Sam Rosenberg
“Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man. But I assure you, my music is not.”During one of the most crucial and resonant scenes in Milos Forman’s 1984 masterpiece Amadeus, a young and budding Mozart (Tom Hulce) pleads to Emperor Joseph II (Jeffrey Jones) and his stuffy colleagues about conducting the forbidden, controversial opera The Marriage of Figaro.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
pastemagazine.com | Sam Rosenberg
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
triblive.com | Sam Rosenberg
There has been no shortage of political and cultural commentary related to the attempted assassination that occurred in Western Pennsylvania on Saturday night, so I will avoid that sort of commentary here. What I would like to focus on instead is related to security, and what I see as a catastrophic failure on the part of the United States Secret Service. Former President Donald J.
