Kesha had just finished previewing her new album, Rainbow, for industry types at a Los Angeles recording studio three years ago when she encountered a stout, bearded guy with a “friendly, happy” vibe in the hallway. “You must be an artist,” he said, referring to her bright-red Nudie suit festooned …
Read More »Miranda Lambert, Luke Combs Lead 2020 CMA Awards Nominations
Miranda Lambert and Luke Combs lead all nominees at the 54th annual CMA Awards, which were announced Tuesday morning from the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville. Lambert scored seven total nominations on the strength of her album Wildcard, while Combs, on a hot streak since the release of his …
Read More »Death Cab for Cutie to Stream 'Plans' Visual Album for 15th Anniversary
Death Cab for Cutie’s major label debut album Plans turns 15 this week, and to celebrate, the band will be streaming the album’s 2006 short film Directions on their YouTube page. The film features visuals for every song on the record, each by a different director. “Fifteen years ago we …
Read More »'The First Time' With Auli'i Cravalho
On the heels of starring in the Netflix film All Together Now, Auliʻi Cravalho talks Moana, meeting Dewayne Johnson, and Facetiming Lin Manuel-Miranda in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s “The First Time.” Cravalho kicked off with the first time she watched Moana, the beloved Disney animation film she starred …
Read More »Eric Church Gives Human Emotions Proper Names in New Ballad 'Crazyland'
Similar to how he did in 2015’s “Kill a Word,” Eric Church personifies emotions and troublesome states of mind in his new song “Crazyland.” The ballad, out Friday, is the third release off Church’s to-be-announced next album. Church wrote the new track with Michael Heeney and Luke Laird (who himself …
Read More »Climate Apocalypse Now
I’m not a religious person, or someone who sees messages written in clouds, but if I were, I might believe that Mother Nature is trying to tell President Donald Trump something right now. California is burning, a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 150 mph just blasted into the Louisiana …
Read More »Tulsa's Hip-Hop Artists Are Speaking. Will the World Listen?
On a Friday evening this summer, a group of the most urgent voices in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, hip-hop scene took to a stage in the city’s Greenwood district to tell a story they felt the world needed to hear. “When [we] came out, the energy just shifted,” says St. Domonick, …
Read More »The World Hasn't Changed
None of the three children who witnessed a Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer attempt to murder their father, Jacob Blake, Sunday night were old enough to sit up front. Even at 8, 5, and 3 years old, though, the boys are old enough to remember what happened for the rest of …
Read More »Wiz Khalifa Is Selling Brownies and Brisket Ends in a New Restaurant Venture
Starting October 1st, Wiz Khalifa fans will be able to order food from an online menu curated entirely by the Grammy-winning rapper. Khalifa revealed details of “HotBox by Wiz” on Monday, sharing that he’d teamed up with Nextbite — a restaurant company that distributes delivery-only brands nationwide — to launch …
Read More »Sen. McSally Says Skip a Meal and Fund Her Campaign With the Savings
Arizona Republican Senator Martha McSally is asking supporters to “fast a meal” and pass along the savings to her campaign. According to an Arizona CBS local affiliate, McSally made the callous pitch at a recent event in northern Arizona. “We’re doing our part to catch up, you know, to get …
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