Marijuana is now legal across Canada, and a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill are using the historic occasion to highlight yet another example of how the Trump administration is embarrassing America on the global stage. A bipartisan group of lawmakers are sending a letter to the administration today …
Read More »Stray Cats to Mark 40th Anniversary With New Album, Tour
The Stray Cats are coming home. After reuniting earlier this year for a handful of reunion shows, the rockabilly revivalists will celebrate their 40th anniversary in 2019, marking the milestone with both a new album and a full-sized tour. Bandmates Brian Setzer, Lee Rocker and Slim Jim Phantom haven’t released …
Read More »Claire Foy Is the Queen of Pain
There’s thisthingabout Claire Foy’s face: It is constantly changing, highs and lows passing over it like a fast-moving storm. With the briefest of glances she conveys, instantly, the emotional temperature of the character she is playing. It’s a quality that makes Foy, 34, one of the most compelling actresses of …
Read More »Chvrches Share Metallica, Pearl Jam Impressions in Rolling Stone Morning Sessions
Rolling Stoneheld its firstMorning Sessionsduring ACL Fest 2018 on Saturday, October 6th, at Wanderlust Yoga in Austin. Glasgow synth-pop trio Chvrches stopped by to chat with Rolling Stone’s Suzy Exposito about the making of their latest album, Love Is Dead, with acclaimed producer Greg Kurstin. The band also discussed their …
Read More »John Legend Taps Esperanza Spalding for 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas'
John Legend previewed his upcoming holiday LP, A Legendary Christmas, with two new tracks: the original “Bring Me Love” and a jazzy rendition of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” featuring Esperanza Spalding. On the latter Yuletide staple, Legend unfurls his dramatic vibrato over electric guitar, organ, upright bass and …
Read More »Rosanne Cash, Lori McKenna Join Mark Erelli for Anti-Gun Violence Song 'By Degrees'
Singer-songwriter and folk musician Mark Erelli has produced a pair of albums for Lori McKenna, accompanied musicians including Josh Ritter and Paula Cole on guitar, appeared on Tim McGraw and Faith Hill’s 2007 Soul2Soul Tour, and released 11 albums as a solo artist. But in “By Degrees,” a song Rosanne …
Read More »The Trump Administration Wants Your Thoughts on Pot
The FDA announced in the Federal Register on Wednesday that the agency is seeking public comment on the “abuse potential, actual abuse [and] medical usefulness” of several substances, including marijuana. This comes as the World Health Organization’s Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) prepares to discuss the international scheduling of …
Read More »Taylor Swift Rules at the American Music Awards 2018: Look What You Made Her Do
What happened? Somehow the American Music Awards turned out to be bizarrely undisastrous this year. As cheesy award shows go, this one has always been on a sub-cheddar level, usually held back for the holiday season and usually totally ignored. But for some reason, the AMAs decided to be a …
Read More »Belle and Sebastian to Score New Film 'Days of the Bagnold Summer'
Scottish indie pop group Belle and Sebastian have been tapped to score the forthcoming film, Days of the Bagnold Summer. Directed by actor-comedian Simon Bird, Days of the Bagnold Summer wrapped shooting last week and is slated to be released in the UK next year. Bird, who stars in the …
Read More »See Kacey Musgraves Sing Hopeful 'Happy and Sad' on 'Ellen'
Kacey Musgraves visited the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Monday, performing “Happy and Sad,” from the CMA-nominated LP, Golden Hour. A ballad of romantic promise tinged with melancholy, the gauzy tune, which Musgraves wrote with her Golden Hour co-producers, Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk, seems a perfect fit for the changing …
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