Beginning today at 6 pm ET, SiriusXM Outlaw Country will become “John Prine Radio Paradise” as the satellite radio channel devotes an entire weekend of programming to the cherished American songwriter, who died Tuesday at 73. Prine will be remembered with special episodes of shows hosted by Steve Earle, Buddy …
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Fifty years ago, the Beatles broke up — it wasn’t the first time, and it wasn’t necessarily supposed to be the last. But the world finally got the message on April 10th, 1970. That was the day Paul McCartney made headlines with a Q&A he sent out with press copies …
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David Gilmour made a rare public appearance earlier this week when he played two Leonard Cohen songs at the digital book-launch event for A Theatre for Dreamers, a new novel written by Polly Samson, his wife and longtime co-lyricist. The book takes place on the Greek island of Hydra in …
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“Alien, but on a ship in the high seas” — for some folks, that description alone is enough to have them rolling their eyes and ready to dismiss a project for being too formulaic, too reductive. For others, it’s the perfect logline to get them salivating, Pavlovian-doggy style. (Remember, Ridley …
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Even in self-isolation, Henry Rollins is maintaining a busy work schedule. Unable to tour or perform spoken-word shows, the former Black Flag and Rollins Band frontman has launched a new online radio show for KCRW that he’s dubbed The Cool Quarantine. The debut episode, which runs four hours, features a …
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Sammy Hagar and the Circle are still officially booked to tour North American amphitheaters this summer on a bill with Whitesnake and Night Ranger, but odds are rather high they’ll be forced to either cancel or postpone it due to the coronavirus. As they wait to learn the fate of …
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Season One had the Maze. Season Two had the Door. And for a few minutes during tonight’s ultraviolent episode (“The Mother of Exiles”), it looked like Westworld had a new theme in mind: the Hunt. (There was an alt-orchestral cover of Björk’s song “Hunter” in this one, after all.) And …
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Madonna took to Instagram to announce her partnership with Bill Gates, donating $1 million to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations’ Therapeutics Accelerator program, which is looking to find a drug to cure or treat COVID-19. The singer, who recently canceled her final Madame X shows due to the pandemic, …
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Colbie Caillat, Waxahatchee, Beach Bunny and Snail Mail are a few of the nearly 300 artists slated to perform in the newly announced UnCancelled Music Festival, a global digital music event that kicked off Thursday. UnCancelled is the most recent — and one of the larger — of the online …
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“I think the best thing that a lawyer can do with their license is get an innocent guy out of prison,” lawyer Ellen Eggers says in the trailer for Netflix’s The Innocence Files, a new docuseries focused on just that: the exoneration of the wrongfully imprisoned. Executive-produced and directed by …
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