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Jersey Shore's The Situation begins prison sentence, to serve alongside Michael Cohen

Michael Sorrentino and Michael Cohen don't just share a first name - they'll soon find themselves residents of the same federal correction facility.

Sorrentino, a.k.a. “The Situation” from MTV's Jersey Shore, recently pleaded guilty to tax evasion. He was sentenced to eight months in federal prison, which he'll serve at the Otisville Federal Correctional Institution in Otisville, New York. Sorrentino reported to Otisville on Tuesday to formally begin his sentence.

Come March, Cohen is expected to join Sorrentino at Otisville. Donald Trump's former attorney received a three-year prison term after pleading guilty to a variety of crimes, including campaign finance violations, tax evasion, and lying to Congress.

Once inside the medium security facility, Sorrentino and Cohen can expect to wake up at 6 a.m., eat breakfast, and then report to their work assignment, which could include landscaping or laundry. (Something tells me Sorrentino is especially qualified for the latter.) Lunch is at 10:45 a.m., dinner is at 4:30 p.m., and lights to the facility are turned off by 11:00 p.m (via People).

Inmates are allowed to spend up to $320 a month at the prison commissary, where they can purchase hair care products, clothing and, to the delight of Sorrentino, snacks.

Needless to say, The Situation will have some stories to tell once he gets out of prison and begins filming the next season of Jersey Shore (which has already been green-lit).

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MusicThinkTank Weekly Recap: Bands In A Bind

Sam Bowman | 5 Innovative Resources For Bands In A Bind

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Video: Nas – “Cops Shot The Kid”

Last year, Nas released the disappointing Nasir, the rapper's 11th studio album and one of the Wyoming session records produced entirely by Kanye West. Unfortunately for Nas, he's still promoting the album, so today we got the video for "Cops Shot The Kid," the punishing, Slick Rick-sampling diatribe on police brutality. The new visual tells…

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Lil Pump Removes Racist Lines in New Song After Backlash and Apology

Pump has eliminated his previous Yao Ming reference and the words “ching chong” from “Butterfly Doors” after making a public apology

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Golden Globes 2019: Who Will Win, Who Should Win

Pop culture in the internet age moves pretty fast sometimes. If you don't slow down and enjoy it every once in a while, you might miss it.

Even as another year's award season brings with it renewed debates about what purpose awards shows serve in the era of democratized entertainment, we're moved to read about and watch alike as celebrities receive statues and we, as the viewer, somehow feel that a celebrated cause of our own is being honored.

It's a little silly, sure, but it's still a fun and relatively harmless way for audiences to step back and take stock of some of their favorite movies and TV shows, while also arguing with others about their own favorites. (We say “relatively” harmless, because Suicide Squad has an Oscar thanks to this whole process. People don't forget. We didn't.)

This Sunday, January 6th, the 76th Annual Golden Globes goes down, giving celebrities another excuse to get drunk as they accept their statues while also giving audiences a reason to get drunk as they heckle the ceremony's skits. In what proved to be a phenomenal year for both art forms, the races are as hard to call as they've ever been.

But fear not: We've assembled a primer that you can consider for your predictions and/or soft wagering at parties. (Of course, we also couldn't help but slip in our own personal picks as well.) Keep these in mind come Sunday, and feel free to join us online as we offer up-to-date coverage throughout the evening. If anything, it'll give you an opportunity to laugh at any we got wrong … and silently applaud those we got right.

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Best Animated Feature Film

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Sony)

Incredibles 2 Isle of Dogs Mirai Ralph Breaks the Internet Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

What Should Win: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse What Will Win: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Anybody who's been paying attention to the awards season race so far will notice that these five nominees read like a list of usual suspects in the Animation category. After all, it wasn't exactly a breakout year otherwise, and even some of the films present would draw a contention or two from various members of our film staff. But without belaboring the point any further, we'll just say that Into the Spider-Verse is going to win, and deservedly so. It's likely going to keep winning all the way to, if there's any justice, the Oscars. –Dominick Suzanne-Mayer

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Best Foreign Language Film

Roma (Netflix)

Capernaum Girl Never Look Away Roma Shoplifters

What Should Win: Roma What Will Win: Roma

It's been an all-around great year in this category, to the point where if there weren't a monolith in the midst, we'd have a hard time calling it for 2019. But Roma has become an arthouse phenomenon in the weeks since its Netflix rollout, a must-see revival of the kind of personal, sweeping filmmaking that populated some of film's best eras. It's one of Consequence's favorite films of last year, but then, so is Shoplifters. Hell, even Capernaum and Never Look Away drew individual year-end votes. There are a lot of great movies coming out from all around the world, if you're able to find them. –Dominick Suzanne-Mayer

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Best Screenplay, Motion Picture

The Favourite (Fox Searchlight)

The Favourite, Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara Vice, Adam McKay Green Book, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga and Brian Hayes Currie If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins Roma, Alfonso Cuarón

What Should Win: If Beale Street Could Talk What Will Win: The Favourite

Even if they'll be split up come Oscars time, you can bet that all of the films nominated by the Globes in the Screenplay category will be up for the top prizes in late February as well. The honor we'd most love to see would be one for Barry Jenkins, who managed the remarkable feat of capturing and translating James Baldwin's unmistakable command of tone to the screen. No small feat, there. But we'll hardly be upset if, and likely when, Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara take the prize for their searingly funny work on The Favourite. It's a real fav … never mind. –Dominick Suzanne-Mayer

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Best Original Score, Motion Picture

Black Panther (Marvel)

Alexandre Desplat, Isle of Dogs Marc Shaiman, Mary Poppins Returns Ludwig Göransson, Black Panther Justin Hurwitz, First Man Marco Beltrami, A Quiet Place

Who Should Win: Justin Hurwitz Who Will Win: Ludwig Göransson

Score is a tough category this year, at least for the Golden Globes, because there really isn't an obvious frontrunner. Also, there are several notable composers missing. Where is Beale Street's Nicholas Britell? Or BlackKklansman's Terence Blanchard? So, judging from this crop, especially with the curious inclusion of Marco Beltrami, it's probably going to come down to name recognition alone. That gives Desplat and Hurwitz, two darlings of the awards circuit, a favorable edge, but then you have to remember that Black Panther is the big blockbuster of the bunch. With that in mind, we're going to gamble and say this one goes to Wakanda, but we would be equally stoked if Hurwitz's dreamy atmospheres won, too. -Michael Roffman

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Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

Green Book (Universal)

Mahershala Ali – Green Book Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? Timothee Chalamet – Beautiful Boy Sam Rockwell – Vice Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman

Who Should Win: Adam Driver Who Will Win: Mahershala Ali

Wanna know how you can tell the Globes go by names? Sam Rockwell's inclusion over his on-screen colleague Steve Carell. The former sticks out in Adam McKay's political farce like a sore thumb, while the latter gives the weighty supporting performance. Grievances aside, that helps us pare down the nominees in this selection to one name: Mahershala Ali. Not only is he a recent awards champ for Moonlight, but he also has been at the forefront of the outstanding hype for the not-so-outstanding Green Book. The dark horse is Adam Driver, who steals every scene in Spike Lee's historical drama, and if he manages to come out ahead of everyone, we'll drop our wine come Sunday night.  –Michael Roffman

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Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna Pictures)

Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk Amy Adams, Vice Rachel Weisz, The Favourite Emma Stone, The Favourite Claire Foy, First Man

Who Should Win: Regina King Who Will Win: Regina King

The strange ongoing debate about where exactly The Favourite's leading trio belongs in terms of awards categorization continues, but in the meantime, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone (who both have leading screen time, seriously, why is this a thing) will have to avoid splitting the category for their excellent work. Claire Foy garners the only top-category nomination for the otherwise slept-on First Man, alongside Amy Adams for her quietly eerie work as Lynne Cheney. For our money, though, the top winner at so many ceremonies up to this point will continue onward here. Regina King has been doing outstanding work for decades, and we hope she'll continue to be recognized for one of her most felt performances yet. –Dominick Suzanne-Mayer

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Amen Dunes Explains His Quote About Not Collaborating with Women

Amen Dunes songwriter Damon McMahon has published a statement responding to recent criticism of comments he made in 2014. In a 2014 interview with No Fear of Pop, McMahon said that he couldn't see himself collaborating with women because "I don't think my energy would work with that." Even within the context of his Love album…

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Aerosmith's Joe Perry released from the hospital, is 'home and doing well'

Joe Perry, 68, "was released from the hospital and is home and doing well," his representative Marcee Rondan told USA TODAY.

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“What's Good” This Week: Jessica Pratt, Smino, Makaya McCraven, Beirut, and More

Our weekly new music playlist also features Mick Jenkins, boygenius, Steve Gunn, Offset, Hatchie, and others

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Riverdale Actor Denies Conspiring With Courtney Love to Murder Frances Bean's Ex-Husband

Back in May, Francis Bean Cobain's ex-husband Isaiah Silva sued Courtney Love, Love's manager Sam Lufti, and several other men, whom Silva claimed attempted to break into his house in 2016 in an attempt to kill him and steal the acoustic guitar that Kurt Cobain played during Nirvana's 1993 MTV Unplugged performance. Among the named alleged accomplices was Riverdale actor Ross Butler. In…

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Elton John Honors Aretha Franklin With Detroit Performance of “Border Song”

Elton John used his appearance in the late Aretha Franklin's home town to pay a warm tribute to her -- and highlight something special she did for John and his songwriting partner, Bernie Taupin. Introducing "Border Song" from his self-titled 1970 sophomore album on Friday night (Oct. 12), John told the crowd at…

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Jonah Hill Interviews Kim Gordon, Q-Tip, Michael Cera, More in New Zine

He conducted intimate conversations for Inner Children, a zine for his new film Mid90s

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Amy Schumer arrested at Brett Kavanaugh protest

Brett Kavanaugh, noted UB40 fan and alleged sexual molester, who also happens to be a judge, is Donald Trump's pick to be the next Supreme Court Justice, and following a totally legit and thorough FBI investigation, the Senate is set to vote on his confirmation this weekend. In anticipation, thousands of protesters descended upon Washington, DC Thursday to voice their dissent. Actress and comedian Amy Schumer took part in several rallies, including one at Hart Senate Office Building, which resulted in her arrest, according to MSNBC.

Following a rally outside Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse, where Kavanaugh currently works, Schumer and several protestors made their way to Hart Senate Office Building. After refusing to leave the building, police detained the protestors, including Schumer. “No matter how this goes, they cannot keep us down,” Schumer said earlier at the protest. “We will win. A vote for Kavanaugh is a vote saying women don't matter.”

MSBNC captured video of the protest and Schumer's subsequent arrest:

Actress Amy Schumer is detained with other anti-Kavanaugh protesters at the Hart Senate Office Bldg. atrium on Capitol Hill. pic.twitter.com/C8N0k97ZE9

- MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 4, 2018

Breaking: Comedian Amy Schumer has been detained while participating in a protest against Brett Kavanaugh. pic.twitter.com/uAbY5q16aZ

- PM Breaking News (@PMBreakingNews) October 4, 2018

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Arianna Neikrug: Changes review – a hugely impressive debut

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This is 25-year-old Arianna Neikrug's debut album, and a startling experience it can be, if you're unprepared for it. Instead of the customary glossy full orchestra there is a piano trio, and the pianist (also arranger and producer) is Laurence Hobgood, for 20 years a close musical confidant of Kurt Elling. Between them they virtually rewrote the rulebook for jazz singing and raised technique to virtuoso level.

This is the point at which Neikrug, winner of the 2015 Sarah Vaughan international vocal competition, enters the scene. From the first half-minute it's obvious that notes are no problem as she pitches immaculately over some very unlikely chords. The song is No Moon at All, famously recorded in 1955 by Julie London, and Hobgood is noted for doing radical things to old songs. As the set proceeds, through numbers associated with Al Green, the Jackson Five, Joni Mitchell and others, plus two attractive if slightly wordy originals, the scale of Neikrug's talent becomes apparent. Her grip on time is quite extraordinary, and her scat singing totally convincing. It's all a little intense, but as a display of endless potential hugely impressive.

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Listen to Burial and Kode9's New 30-Minute Mix

Featuring music by SOPHIE, Jlin, Speedy J, DJ Phil, and others

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Big Thief's Adrianne Lenker Releases New Song “symbol”: Listen

She is also embarking on a solo tour for upcoming album abysskiss

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Aretha Franklin funeral: Church sanctuary opens as nation mourns and celebrates the Queen of Soul

Thousands of friends, family, fans, celebrities and dignitaries will pay their final respects today to Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, who died of pancreatic cancer on Aug. 16.

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'Weird Al' Yankovic: ' Don't pickaxe my star'

'Weird Al' Yankovic unveils his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles and asks people not to deface it with a pickaxe. (Aug. 28)