Two weeks before the release of his new From A Room: Volume 2 LP, Chris Stapleton offers another taste of the record with “Tryin’ to Untangle My Mind,” a thick slice of bluesy rock and traditional country delivered in Stapleton’s trademark growling twang. Written by Stapleton with Jaron Boyer and …
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Musical-theater productions tend to gestate for long periods, butRed Roses, Green Gold, the Off-Broadway show featuring the music of the Grateful Dead that opened in October, still seems like a special case. Playwright Michael Norman Mann first had the idea for the show when he attended a Dead gig in …
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Two months afterSteely Dan co-founder Walter Becker died unexpectedly on September 3rd, his cause of death remained a mystery. However, in a letter toSteely Dan‘s fans, Becker’s widow Delia reveals to Rolling Stone that her husband died following an “extremely aggressive form of esophageal cancer.” “For me personally, his death …
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The massacre a little over a week ago that left 26 dead and another 20 injured at a church in a sleepy Texas town has rekindled the debate about the nation’s gun laws at the Capitol. Unlike in the aftermaths of other recent mass shootings, over the last week a …
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When Orson William Black left the polygamist enclave known as Short Creek a decade or so ago, nobody knew what to expect. As a member of a polygamist Mormon splinter-sect known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or FLDS, Black had always been a rebel – …
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A 24-year-old who grew up a Britney fan and now swears allegiance to Shania, Ballerini filled her 2015 debut with smack downs of Peter Pan bros and other losers, liars and users – songs that were country by virtue of the banjos and fiddles decorating their stomping choruses. When she …
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Nashville-based demo singer Red Marlow demonstrated a keen understanding of his own musical style on Tuesday’s episode of The Voice, singing Craig Campbell’s poignant ballad “Outskirts of Heaven” during the Knockout Rounds. The 40-year-old Alabama native impressed his coach Blake Shelton and adviser Kelly Clarkson during rehearsal, taking to heart …
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Stephen Colbert delivered a sobering monologue about the mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas and urged against the overwhelming sense of hopelessness and powerlessness that follows such violence on The Late Show Monday. “Everyone is heartbroken when this happens, and you want to do something but nothing gets done,” Colbert …
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Ozzy Osbourne announced Monday that he will embark on his “farewell world tour” starting in 2018, a trek that will take the Black Sabbath singer around the world through 2020. Even though the farewell tour will mark Osbourne’s retirement as a touring artist, the heavy metal legend plans to continuing …
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UPDATE: The Country Music Association has responded to outcry over its media guidelines with the following statement: “CMA apologizes for the recently distributed restrictions in the CMA Awards media guidelines, which have since been lifted. The sentiment was not to infringe and was created with the best of intentions to …
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