With a cigarette dangling from his bottom lip, Robert Greer focuses intently on restringing his Martin D-18 acoustic guitar. Sporting a scruffy beard, camouflage hunting shirt, work pants and trucker hat with “Keel” (as in bluegrass guitar wizard Larry Keel) emblazoned on it, Greer finishes the job and the cigarette. …
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Elisabeth Moss‘s June recruits some “allies with power” in the dramatic new trailer for The Handmaid’s Tale Season Three. “Heresy: That’s what you get punished for — not for being part of the resistance,” the protagonist intones to open the clip. “Because, officially, there is no resistance. Not for helping …
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UPDATE (5/1): Delta Upsilon and Phi Psi have announced that they will be disbanding, according to statements on their respective Facebook pages Tuesday night. “Since the start of our membership, we made it our mission to improve the culture and perception of Phi Psi,” Phi Psi said in a statement. …
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What do we say to the god of death? Eat this. It wasn’t the once and future king Jon Snow who took down the Night King and ended the years-in-the-making assault of the dead against the living. It wasn’t the Queen of Dragons Daenerys Targaryen or the Three-Eyed Raven Bran …
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that everyone loves a good scam. From Elizabeth Holmes to Fyre Fest to ersatz German heiress Anna Delvey, grifters have had us all in their thrall. Yet in our zeal to find a new, juicy con-artist tale, we often forget about the scammers who …
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The late soul singer Charles Bradley was deep into chemotherapy when he entered a home recording studio in Queens, New York. In the fall of 2016, he’d been diagnosed with stomach cancer, forcing him to cancel a North American tour in support of his third album, Changes. Weak, but resilient, …
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System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian summons some operatic flare for a cover of Blue Öyster Cult’s campy hard-rock classic “Godzilla” that will appear on the upcoming soundtrack album for Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Throughout the bombastic cut, he commands a melodramatic vibrato in his voice to complement …
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Jakob Dylan unveiled a bustling cover of the Mamas and the Papas’ 1965 classic, “Go Where You Wanna Go,” that will appear on the soundtrack to the upcoming documentary about the Laurel Canyon music scene, Echo In the Canyon. The soundtrack arrives May 24th via BMG, the same day the …
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Since her brilliant 2010 LP Lifted Off the Ground, Chely Wright’s musical output has been both startlingly confessional and increasingly eclectic. That LP, which coincided with Wright’s coming-out and her Like Me memoir, forever altered the ACM Award-winning country singer’s career trajectory but it allowed her the freedom to heal …
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UPDATE: Tame Impala have added four more shows to their 2019 North American tour itinerary. The slate includes a second show at Madison Square Garden in New York City August 22nd (the first sold-out), and shows in Irving, Texas, Houston, Texas and Denver, Colorado in October. New dates are in …
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