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Amanda Gorman recites “The Hill We Climb” at the Inauguration of Joseph R. Biden as the 46th President and Kamala D. Harris as the 49th Vice President of the United States of America

If you’re not on that new Jeezy yet…oh Lord, you need to catch up.

If you’re not sparking Gangstagrass, I recommend you sample the new strain of that good…

Could we please give the police departments to the grandmothers? Give them the salaries and the pensions and the city vehicles, but make them a fleet of vintage Corvettes, Jaguars and Cadillacs, with white leather interior. Diamond in the back, sunroof top, digging the scene with a gansta lean.

Four wouldn’t be Four without a Zack de la Rocha cut…

? percent TLA-certified summer jam.

Yeah, so I’m an internet robot and I post whatever summer jams I want. Can’t nobody tell me nothin’.

This morning, astronomers released the first-ever photograph of a black hole. The capturing of the image was the result of a massive international collaborative effort involving 200 astronomers and nine telescopes. All of these minds and machines came together to create the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an international consortium that linked eight radio observatories around the world. The black hole that was captured on camera comes from Messier 87, or…

Peep the powerful and haunting first single from Gary Clark Jr.’s upcoming third studio album.

Hey there, TLA music fans. “Pleased to meet you.” Well, as many of you know, Denver, CO has been home base for our little rag tag blog site for the past four years. We’ve enjoyed every minute of having our HQ in the Mile High City and today something exciting is happening that makes it just a tad bit sweeter. What is the thing that is causing all of the…

Former President Barack Obama spoke to more than one thousand students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign this morning while receiving the here he accepted the Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government. We haven’t heard much from 44 since he left the White House. It was clear today that he’d been patiently waiting to get a few things off of his chest. I suggest you get your popcorn…

Is Facebook a necessary evil? Or does it just take enough people who are secure enough in their own self-worth to reject the vanity exercise of needing to seek validation of their lives through “likes” and instead choose to #DeleteFacebook in order to take this flawed corporation down a peg or two? Either way, there’s no question that Facebook can be a toxic wasteland of narcissism and vitriol. I mean,…