The Country Music Association Awards return for the 52nd time on Wednesday night, with this year’s show set to celebrate another fruitful year in country, and also look ahead to what’s next. The CMAs feature a number of interesting races this year, but as always it’s the performances that generate …
Read More »Chris Cornell Benefit Concert to Feature Soundgarden, Foo Fighters and Metallica Members
UPDATE:Miley Cyrus, Fiona Apple and Chris Stapleton have been added to the Chris Cornell “I Am the Highway” tribute concert, which is set to take place tomorrow, January 16th, at the Forum in Los Angeles. The latest lineup additions also include Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme and …
Read More »Woody Meets Forky in First 'Toy Story 4' Teaser Trailer
Woody, Buzz Lightyear and the rest of the Toy Story gang – plus a talking spork – reunite in the first teaser-trailer for Toy Story 4. The 90-second clip, soundtracked by Judy Collins’ “Both Sides Now,” finds the toys enjoying a sunny day before the viewer is introduced to “Forky,” …
Read More »Review: Kane Brown Forges His Own Path to Country Stardom on 'Experiment'
Kane Brown achieved country stardom his own way — after bailing onX Factor USA’s attempt to shoehorn him into a boy band, the baritone decided to post covers of tracks by Nashville stars like George Strait and Lee Brice online, which led to him racking up numbers that no label …
Read More »Florence Welch on Sobriety, Embracing Loneliness and Loving Patti Smith
It’s the day before Florence Welch embarks on the North American leg of her current tour, and she’s making the most of her time in Vancouver. This morning, strangely, she went to a museum exhibit that was all about cabins. “I grew up with a Little House on the Prairie …
Read More »What Does Jeff Sessions' Exit Mean for Federal Pot Policy?
After recapturing control of the House on Tuesday, some progressive Democrats were itching for party leaders to finally tackle marijuana and criminal justice reform, but they knew they had a Jeff Sessions-sized road block to overcome. Now that President Trump ingloriously shoved him out as attorney general Wednesday, there’s more …
Read More »Trumpism Wins in Florida
Two years ago, Florida was the first state to suggest that things had gone horribly wrong for Hillary Clinton and the Democrats, and that an upset of historic proportions was in the works. On Tuesday, Florida delivered yet another verdict on the state of American politics: Trumpism is alive and …
Read More »'The Voice' Recap: Knockouts End With a Dramatic Coin Flip
The knockout rounds of The Voice season 15 wrapped up with a dramatic flourish on Monday night, with the final performance coming down to a coin flip and plenty of country music throughout the show. The lineup is now set for next week’s live playoffs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5VvqyoySaU Beginning with a fitting …
Read More »'The Walking Dead' Says Goodbye to Its Hero — and An Era of TV
When Rick Grimes first rode onto our TV sets on Halloween night in 2010, Don Draper was still mistreating women and drinking like a fish on Mad Men. Walter White was running a drug empire in Albuquerque; Nucky Thompson was ruling Atlantic City like a tyrant; and Dexter Morgan was …
Read More »Where Will the Next Generation of Democratic Party Leaders Come From?
WASHINGTON —After Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, Amanda Litman, 27 years old and living in New York, started hearing from old high school and college friends. She says she was the only person they knew who worked in politics — she’d had jobs on Obama’s reelection campaign in …
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