When you think of weed, you likely think of a sticky bud, an oil, maybe even a tincture. But what if you reconfigured your notion of cannabis to instead envision an abstract scientific equation? Sure, this may sound like the stuff of stoner sci-fi, except that it’s the real-life direction …
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Three years after releasing his post-Civil Wars solo debut, John Paul White has announced details of his next solo album,The Hurting Kind, which will be released April 12th on White’s Single Lock Records. Featuring vocal contributions from Lee Ann Womack, Erin Rae, and the Secret Sisters, White’s forthcoming album was …
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Ezra Koenig served up some fuzzy details about Vampire Weekend‘s upcoming fourth album, as well as an explanation about why it took them so long to make it, in an Instagram post Thursday. He’s not ready yet to share the record’s title, but he did offer up its initials: FOTB. …
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A few years ago, I was in Charlotte, North Carolina and a mutual friend suggested I look up Tommy Tomlinson, a longtime Charlotte Observer columnist who was transitioning from the paper to becoming one of America’s best longform sportswriters. Tomlinson proposed lunch at a Greek restaurant not far from my …
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Shovels & Rope, the Americana duo of Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent, will release a new album this spring. Titled By Blood, the follow-up to 2016’s Little Seeds, is set to arrive April 12th. The band previewed the album with the new song “The Wire.” A slinky mid-tempo rocker, …
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A Namibian artist is cementing what Toto fans have always known: “Africa” is eternal. Max Siedentopf has created a sound installation in the coastal Namib Desert that will pump out the chart-topping 1982 single on a continuous loop – using solar batteries “to keep Toto going for all eternity.” “[I] …
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Big Boi will perform as part of the Super Bowl LIII halftime show as the NFL confirmed Sunday that the Outkast rapper, along with the previously revealed Maroon 5 and Travis Scott, will take the stage at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium on February 3rd. The addition of Big Boi guarantees that …
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When Ariana Grande first showed up on the radio, she came off like the ultimate teen-pop robo-princess, a bubblegum diva wearing a pair of kitten ears. She relished the role of the coy starlet, flashing her Mini Mariah pipes, Bardot ponytail and Edie Sedgwick fashion sense. In her videos, she …
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Our Native Daughters, the new roots music supergroup featuring Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Allison Russell, and Leyla McCalla, have released the song “Quasheba, Quasheba” from their upcoming debut album. “Quasheba, Quasheba,” premiering below, was written by Birds of Chicago singer-songwriter Allison Russell as an attempt to reckon with and shed …
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The producers of Bohemian Rhapsody want you to sing “We Are the Champions” right along with them. They’re re-releasing the film this week as a special “sing-along” cut in 750 locations around the United States and Canada, as well as the regular version in 550 additional cinemas. The announcement follows …
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