The news came out this morning that Guns N’ Roses are playing Louisville’s Louder Than Life Festival in late September. It’s the first sign that GN’R’s Not in This Lifetime reunion tour didn’t wrap up at Hawaii’s Aloha Stadium in December, but was merely taking a long break. There’s no …
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O-Town’s Ashley Parker Angel opens up about allegations of sexual misconduct against boy band svengali Lou Pearlman in an exclusive scene from the YouTube Originals documentary The Boy Band Con. The Lance Bass-produced film will debut on April 3rd. When Angel joined O-Town via the reality showMaking the Band, Pearlman’s …
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It doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Those problems added up to immortal romance cinema for Bogie and Bergman in Casablanca. Things are not so lucky for the love triangle at the core …
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“RealLife Rock Top Ten” is a monthly column by cultural critic and RS contributing editorGreil Marcus. 1. Nobody’s Baby, “Life of a Thousand Girls” (Bandcamp). “All the ingredients to an American classic, the Teenage Death Song,” says this San Francisco foursome of itself. “Noboby’s Baby formed around the idea of …
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Peter Frampton is the latest classic rock icon to announce that his next tour will be his last. A extensive arena and amphitheater farewell tour – which will feature Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening as the opening act most nights – kicks off June 18th at the Hard Rock Hotel …
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Beck and Cage the Elephant have teamed up for the co-headlining The Night Running Tour, with Spoon on board as the trek’s special guest. The trek takes it name from the Cage the Elephant track “Night Running,” a Beck-featuring song from the band’s upcoming LP Social Cues, out April 19th. …
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Ahead of the 61st Grammy Awards this Sunday, Recording Academy president Neil Portnow and host Alicia Keys are doubling down on expressions of excitement for the slate of awards and performances. At Thursday morning’s press preview and red carpet rollout, Keys said the production of the show has been a …
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WASHINGTON —Inside the Washington, D.C., federal courthouse Tuesday morning, the scene was somber and official. Roger Stone, the onetime adviser to President Donald Trump and master of the dark arts of politics dating back to Watergate, sat at the defense’s table inside Courtroom 3. Stone had come to D.C. for …
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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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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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