Justin Townes Earle has released the new song “Frightened by the Sound” from his upcoming album The Saint of Lost Causes. Earle’s ninth studio album, The Saint of Lost Causes is the follow-up to 2017’s Kids in the Street and will be released May 24th. Earle announced the album back …
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My new book,Bruce Springsteen: The Stories Behind the Songs, tells the tales behind every officially released studio recording ofBruce Springsteen’s career so far. In addition to my years of Springsteen reporting, including five interviews with the man himself, the book draws on over 60 hours of brand-new interviews with musicians, …
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Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke kicked off his presidential campaign on the historic South El Paso Street in El Paso, Texas this weekend, the candidate’s hometown. Emphasizing a pro-immigration message, O’Rourke spoke of welcoming immigrants at a time when the current president has done everything he can to discourage immigration, especially …
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Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon and John Taylor remembered the seismic shift of watching Roxy Music make their British TV debut and described their lifelong affinity for the band while inducting them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In a recent interview, Taylor recalled being mesmerized by Roxy …
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Modest Mouse have released a new song, “Poison the Well,” ahead of their Record Store Day 7″. The gritty, static-laced rock number, which has a psychedelic tinge, is the band’s first release since their 2015 album Strangers to Ourselves. They previously teased the new music with a series of cryptic …
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In the new TruTV comedy, Tacoma FD, Broken Lizard’s Kevin Heffernan and Steve Lemme play the top firefighters in Tacoma, Washington, a city filled with so much rain there are hardly any blazes to fight. To mark the show’s premiere on Thursday, March 28th, Heffernan and Lemme sat down with …
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The latest cartoonishly evil headline to come out of the Trump administration involves Education Secretary Betsy DeVos‘ plan to cut funding for the Special Olympics. Is this actually true? Yes, and on Tuesday, lawmakers grilled DeVos over a budget proposal that includes over $7 billion in cuts to education programs, …
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As advocacy groups have battled for legalization on both the state and federal level, the CBD and marijuana markets in the United States have experienced enormous growth in the past few years, to the degree that one estimate suggests the legal marijuana market will be worth more than $146 billion …
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Hosted by childhood friends Lucy Fitzgerald, Kenyon Laing and Amanda Jacobson, the Wine and Crime podcast, which launched in February 2017, is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: a discussion of various true crimes, ranging from the bizarre (think Russian necrophiliacs) to the more serious (an episode devoted to …
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Fresh off her standout SXSW set, Yolavisited Saturday’s CBS This Morning to perform three songs off her debut solo LP Walk Through Fire. The British singer, one of Rolling Stone‘s recent Artists You Need to Know, and her band stunned with a mini-concert with renditions of “Faraway Look,” “Love All …
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