Green Day has teamed up with Reverb to sell more than 100 pieces of gear that has been used on tour as well as in the studio over the course of their career. The band’s online Reverb shop, which launches on February 7th, will house items from each band member, …
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Ellen DeGeneres gave expert organizer Marie Kondo one of her most difficult challenges to date on Ellen Thursday: Cleaning up the incredibly cluttered office of one of her writers, Troy Thomas. The Tidying Up host and her translator surprised Thomas in his office, prompting the writer to mutter a terrified, …
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President Trump isn’t ready to let Nancy Pelosi prevent from delivering the State of the Union address at the Capitol next week. On Wednesday morning, the president sent a letter to the House speaker clarifying his intention to address the nation as planned. “I look forward to seeing you on …
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President Trump’s promise to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border was a defining and divisive talking point throughout the 2016 campaign, rallying his conservative base enough to help win him the election. In trying to fulfill one of his most popular campaign promises, President Trump has halted the U.S. …
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A Bahamian cook who lost her life savings in the aftermath of the disastrous Fyre Festival has been reimbursed and then some thanks to a fundraising effort that followed her appearance in the Netflix documentary Fyre. As Maryann Rolle tearfully recounted in the film, she drained $50,000 from her life …
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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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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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