The Killers will release a comprehensive box set, The Killers Career Vinyl Box, on June 15th via Island/UMe. The package includes all of the alt-rock band’s five studio albums – 2004’s Hot Fuss, 2006’s Sam’s Town, 2008’s Day & Age, 2012’s Battle Born and 2017’s Wonderful Wonderful – along with …
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African Americans are often made to feel as though we are uninvited guests in our own country. We are excluded from environments great and small, at times by force and often because of irrational fears and unconscious biases. This being the United States, those individual bigotries have support from an …
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Joshua Hedley goes in search of a reversal of fortune in the new video for the forlorn “I Never (Shed a Tear),” where Eastern cuisine meets country & westernstyle. Seated at a booth in a Chinese restaurant, Hedley pulls a series of slips of paper from a number of fortune …
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When news broke over the weekend about the death of Czech-American filmmaker Milos Forman, movie lovers, actors and directors mourned the legacy of a man who celebrated rebels and outcasts in iconic, Oscar-winning works like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus.Forman was fearless, taking on controversial projects – …
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In an Emma Cline story, by the time the worst happens, you’re grateful for it – anything to break that exquisite tension, anything to get you to the place where you’re facing head-on the world as it burns. If the 28-year-old novelist has a signature, it’s her ability to make …
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PureVolume, the music discovery and streaming platform that aided the rise of bands like Paramore and Gym Class Heroes, will shut down April 30th. A note on the site’s homepage reads: “We reget [sic] to inform you that PureVolume.com is shutting down. If you were storing music here, you will …
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Yvonne Staples, a longtime member of the Staple Singerswho enjoyed a series of funky gospel-inflected hits in the 1970s, died on Tuesday at age 80. The cause of death was colon cancer, according toThe New York Times. Staples was born in 1937 in Chicago to Oceola and Roebuck “Pops” Staples. …
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With a holster slung across her hips and a plan tucked up the sleeve of her duster coat, Maren Morris plays the part of a Wild West bounty hunter in the music video for “Rich.” Members of her touring entourage — including bandmates, road crew and management staff — also …
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After Kid Rock spent 2017 delivering “The Greatest Show on Earth,” the rocker will return to the road this summer with his Red Blooded Rock N Roll Redneck Extravaganza. The 15-date trek launches August 3rd in Bangor, Maine and currently concludes in West Palm Beach, Florida on October 13th. Along …
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Frances Bean Cobain posted a brief video of her first original song on Instagram on Wednesday night, the eve of the 24th anniversary of her father,Kurt Cobain‘s, death. In the video, Cobain works without instrumental accompaniment, demonstrating her flexible, powerful voice. “I think I saw you when I was small,” …
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