Blake Shelton made his second consecutive night of non-Voice television appearances on Tuesday, visiting the set of Late Night With Seth Meyers to perform his ACM-nominated single “I’ll Name the Dogs” one day after spending some quality time on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (including a visit to a …
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In 2015, two of Glen Campbell‘s children from previous marriages, Debby Campbell-Cloyd and William Travis Campbell, filed a lawsuit against Campbell’s widow Kim Campbell alleging that she had barred them from visiting their father as he battled Alzheimer’s disease. Two years later, after the Country Music Hall of Fame member …
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What to make of the sanctions announced yesterday by the U.S. Treasury Department against a passel of Russians, the St. Petersburg “troll farm” and several Russian intelligence officials? At first glance, the sanctions – the first real-world action against Russia taken by Donald Trump‘s administration since it took office 14 …
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More than 40 years later, Jimmy Buffett can still recall the moment he wrote “Margaritaville.” Buffett had played a show in Austin and was on his way back home to Key West. “It was a hot day and I had a couple of margaritas,” he recalls. “I was a bit …
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On March 2nd, CNN’s Jake Tapper began to incredulously tweet that Tamika Mallory, co-founder of the Women’s March and self-described “freedom fighter,” was defending her choice to attend a speech by Louis Farrakhan. As is typical for the controversial Nation of Islam leader, the speech was laced with bigoted invectives, …
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It might not be immediately obvious to first-time listeners, but the members of Belle Adair have a deep reverence for Muscle Shoals music history. It’s an easy thing to overlook: with their 2018 album Tuscumbia, the Alabama foursome frequently nod to the Byrds and Big Star with bright, jangling guitars …
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Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, Tearing at the SeamsThe R&B revivalist’s second album “doubles down on roadhouse retro,” writes David Browne, adding the occasional electronic flourish and copious references to Leonard Cohen to their Southern-fried sound. “Even when he overshoots,” Browne writes, “Rateliff’s restless throwback sound feels like it’s …
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As another debate about gun control unfolds in Washington D.C.,Samantha Bee outlined the similarities between the National Rifle Association and the Church of Scientology during the latest episode of Full Frontal. “Both of these cults are based on fanciful myths that when repeated enough, their otherwise intelligent followers start to …
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The seven adult Turpin siblings are turning to music therapy to heal nearly a month-and-a-half after they were first discovered living in a California house where they’d allegedly been abused and held captive by their parents, David Allen Turpin and Louise Anna Turpin. Corona Regional Medical Center CEO Mark Uffer …
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UPDATE:Donald Glover is postponing a handful of Childish Gambino tour dates after he reportedly injured his foot during a recent concert in Dallas, Pitchfork reports. Fam Rothstein – who’s part of the creative agency Wolf + Rothstein with Glover and Wolf Taylor – announced the postponement on Twitter, writing, “This …
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