Is there some sort of stealth Remember-the-Nineties indie-film revival going on? A few weeks ago, we got Hotel Artemis, a microwaved slab of postmodern pulp fiction that channeled the moment when Tarantino-lite was a mini-genre. (It’s the sort of movie that makes you want to take back every bad thing …
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Steve Albini won his first World Series of Poker tournament late Saturday night as the renowned producer and Big Black rocker finished first in the $1,500 Seven Card Stud event. The producer of albums like Nirvana’s In Utero and Pixies’ Surfer Rosa beat out 309 other players to win the …
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With its eternal ties to awkward post-adolescent angst, pop-punk is not a genre that’s meant to carry a band through a full career. So it’s not surprising that on their third album, 5 Seconds of Summer have already aged out of the sound that built their success. Instead, Youngblood goes …
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Kip Moore, Cassadee Pope and several other country performers will participate in the 2018 ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp, scheduled to kick off Thursday in Nashville. Running June 14th to 20th, the ninth annual ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp will also feature participants Danielle Bradbery, Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum, …
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Thirty Seconds to Marsunveiled the music video for “Rescue Me,” featuring a montage of people expressing various emotions in tight close-up shots. The song appears on their fifth albumAmerica, which was released in April. “‘Rescue Me’ is a song about pain, a song about empowerment, a song about faith and …
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President Trump and conservative talk show hosts like Sean Hannity have criticized Robert Mueller‘s investigation as a “witch hunt” over the past 13 months. And as John Oliver argued on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, they’re working like lawyers in a high-profile trial, peddling conspiracy theories to sway the jury of …
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With Snail Mail’s Lush, indie rock has officially entered its “Black Crowes era,” where young artists refigure music from the decade they were born. But that’s not a bad thing here. As the brainchild of 18-year-old Lindsey Jordan, who counts Helium’s Mary Timony and Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield as mentors, Snail …
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Ahead of John Fogerty‘s tour with ZZ Top, the singer teamed up with the latter’s Billy Gibbons to collaborate on a new song, “The Holy Grail.” The song sports a bluesy, John Lee Hooker–like guitar riff, à la ZZ Top’s “La Grange,” and Fogerty’s lyrics about mumbo jumbo, mystical plains …
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On Tuesday, the Michigan state legislature briefly considered a law that would have fully legalized recreational marijuana for adults in the state. It didn’t make it to a vote – Republicans leading the effort abandoned it when they realized they did not have the numbers – and because Tuesday was …
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When the Who started out, they billed themselves as “maximum R&B.” And before Pete Townshend embraced teenage wasteland and became one of rock’s poet laureates, the group was content playing blues and soul covers. Check out their stirring version of James Brown’s “I Don’t Mind” on My Generation, their myriad …
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