Heidi Schreck wants to talk to you about inherited trauma.She wants to tell you about the trauma that’s been passed down from woman to woman in her family: from her great-grandmother, a mail-order bride who died of “melancholia” at age 36; to her mother, who had to testify against her …
Read More »George Soros Goes From Liberal Bogeyman to Target With Explosive Device
George Soros is a former hedge fund investor who has spent billions of his fortune on philanthropic causes. But to many conservatives, the frequent Democratic donor is a sinister liberal puppet-master who has funded everything from the protests surrounding Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation to the migrant caravan currently making …
Read More »Eric Church's Producer Shares His Eccentric, Chain-Smoking Creative Process
For more than five years now, Jay Joyce has lived here on the basement level of a church on a residential street in East Nashville that — in the interim between it being a functioning Southern Baptist church and the acclaimed record producer transforming it into his dream studio — …
Read More »Songwriter Awarded $44 Million in Lawsuit Over Uncredited 2004 Usher Song
Philadelphia songwriter Daniel Marino, who filed a lawsuit over Usher‘s “Bad Girl,” has been awarded $44.35 million following a court battle over the track. According to the Associated Press, a jury ordered Marino’s former co-writer William Guice to pay $6.75 million in compensatory damages, along with $20.25 million in punitive …
Read More »Neil Young to Release 1976 Live Album 'Songs for Judy'
Neil Young announced his plan to releaseSongs for Judy, a live album drawn from his November 1976 U.S. tour. The 22-song LP includes solo acoustic performances of all-time classics like “Heart of Gold,” “After the Gold Rush” and “The Needle and the Damage Done,” along with a number of rarer …
Read More »YouTube's Music Videos Now Sell You Concert Tickets
Mega-media platform YouTube is no longer content being just a place for music fans to watch and listen. On Thursday, the service debuted an integration with ticketing company Eventbrite that encourages YouTube users to buy concert tickets directly from music video pages — which, combined with a similar deal it …
Read More »James Taylor Launches 'Million Meals Challenge' For North Carolina After Hurricane Florence
James Taylor grew up in New Bern, North Carolina and wrote one of his most famous songs about the area. The region is still reeling from being severely hit by Hurricane Florence last month: more than 4,000 homes in the town of New Bern alone were damaged, railroad tracks were …
Read More »Pete Souza's New Book Is a Painful Reminder of What We've Lost in the Trump Years
Amid the daily chaos of the Donald Trump presidency, it’s easy to forget the stability we gave up two years ago. Obama administration chief photographer Pete Souza’s new book, Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents, serves as a brutal reminder. Souza juxtaposes his iconic portraits of the Obama presidency with …
Read More »Weed Is Now Legal in Canada
On Wednesday, October 17th, Canada will become the second country in the world where marijuana is legal on a national level, as Bill C-45, approved by Parliament in June, goes into effect. Adults will be able to possess up to 30 grams of pot and grow as many as four …
Read More »Moby Announces 'Then It Fell Apart' Memoir About 'Dark Heart of Fame'
Fresh off selling all of his musical belongings for charity, Moby announced plans to publish his second memoir, Then It Fell Apart, in 2019. “It’s a journey into the dark heart of fame and the demons that lurk beneath the bling and bluster of celebrity lifestyle,” the producer tweeted of …
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