Nearly two years after first announcing the project, David Byrne has launched an online magazine named Reasons to Be Cheerful that aims to be a “tonic for tumultuous times.” As the former Talking Heads singer explains in the introductory video, he founded the website – “part magazine, part therapy session, …
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With the release this week of her new album While I’m Livin’, Tanya Tucker proves once again that she’s among the finest, most unique country singers on the planet. Through nearly 50 years of hits, professional highs and a few well-publicized lows, the Seminole, Texas, native has established herself as …
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Phish has issued a statement regarding fans’ increasing concerns over plague-infected prairie dogs threatening the band’sannual Labor Day event at Commerce City, Colorado’s Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. “As you may have heard, there have been ongoing cases of plague in prairie dog colonies in the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife …
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In May, country superstar Sara Evans joined her 19-year-old son Avery and 16-year-old daughter Olivia on the road for a mini-tour in support of an EP they had recorded. Billed as Sara Evans with the Barker Family Band, the Bloodline Tour emphasized family harmony, musical comradeship and an eclectic set …
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Common addresses the challenges of black manhood in the rapper’s second video for “Hercules,” a Swizz Beatz-featuring single off his upcoming album Let Love. In July, Common released a “Hercules” video with himself and Vince Staples — as a convenience store clerk — subduing a group of robbers as seen …
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Spanish opera singer and conductor Placido Domingo has been accused of sexual harassment by nine women, The Associated Press reports. Nine women — eight singers and a dancer — came forward with allegations against Domingo that dated back to the early Eighties. Three of them spoke of forced kisses, while …
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There may be no more country sight than Brent Cobb, in denim overalls, walking down a dirt road in south Georgia to buy peaches. The songwriter continues his love letter to his home state with the second part of his “Come Home Soon” series. In this clip, Cobb is captured …
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Zac Brown Band have released the stirring new track “Warrior,” the latest taste of the group’s forthcoming sixth studio album The Owl, out September 20th. With an infectious tribal drumbeat throughout, the rousing lyrics, especially those in the final verse, detail the kinsmanship forged in facing battle together. “The chosen …
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David Berman, the singer-songwriter best known for leading the long-running, critically acclaimed indie band Silver Jews, died Wednesday at the age of 52. Drag City, the Chicago record label that released all of the group’s albums dating back to 1994’s Starlite Walker, confirmed the musician’s death. The cause of death …
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Korn have unveiled the sinister new song “Cold” from their upcoming LP The Nothing, out September 13th via Elektra Records/Roadrunner Records. “Cold” balances punishing metal barrage breakdowns with verses and choruses packed with all the might of big-time arena rock. Amidst bone-scraping guitars, frontman Jonathan Davis bellows, “I’m on my …
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