Though Joe Biden believes Republicans and Democrats will join hands and work together once President Trump is out of office, most recognize real bipartisanship in Congress as nothing more than a pipe dream. There simply doesn’t appear to be any way to reconcile the ideological gap between progressive Democrats and …
Read More »Flashback: Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt Pay Tribute to Maybelle Carter
On May 30th, 1980, 39 years ago today, Emmylou Harris released her album Roses in the Snow, which kicks off with Hot Band member Ricky Skaggs’ thrilling fiddle on the title cut. The entire album is stamped from the outset with the superior musicianship for which Skaggs, a future Bluegrass …
Read More »Blondie's Debbie Harry Memoir 'Face It' to Release in October
Blondie‘s Debbie Harry will release her previously announced memoir, Face It, on October 1st via Harper Collins. The book, which blends first-person essays with interviews conducted by journalist Sylvie Simmons, documents her band’s ascent to New Wave fame. In a statement about the autobiography, which includes previously unseen photos and …
Read More »Watch Franz Ferdinand Debut New Song 'Black Tuesday'
Franz Ferdinand surprised an audience in Porto, Portugal with a new song, “Black Tuesday.” The terse, swaggering track, captured and posted to YouTube by a fan, features the band’s edgy rock style. In the clip, shot during the North Music Festival, the musicians go all in on the performance, bringing …
Read More »Flashback: Don Williams Emerges as 'the Gentle Giant' With 'Amanda'
Don Williams, who died in September 2017, would have turned 80 this Memorial Day. In a remarkable country music career that began in the early Seventies and lasted until his retirement in 2016, Williams was known not only for his warm, resonant voice and his gentle, unassuming nature, but also …
Read More »Adam Levine to Depart NBC's 'The Voice' After 16 Seasons
Adam Levine is not returning as a coach for the next season of NBC’s The Voice. The Maroon 5 singer revealed the news on Friday, bidding farewell with a lengthy, heartfelt Instagram post. “We had no idea what we were doing or where it was going,” he wrote. “It went …
Read More »Rolling Stones Finally Give Back 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' Songwriting Credits
The Verve‘s 1997 hit “Bitter Sweet Symphony” is one of the finest songs of the Britpop era, a classically Nineties expression of world-weary cool with just the right amount of English self-regard. It’s a song that only Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft could have written — except that he didn’t, according …
Read More »Black on the Outside, Trump on the Inside
One of the most jarring behaviors of this presidency is the way in which people who were previously thought to take pride in their intelligence and expertise — William Barr, for example — have revealed their inner Donald Trumps. They don’t so much imitate their president as seek to emulate …
Read More »Ezra Furman Rebels Against Broken Society in 'Calm Down aka I Should Not Be Alone' Video
On Tuesday Ezra Furman announced a new album,Twelve Nudes, and released its first single, “Calm Down aka I Should Not Be Alone.” The song is accompanied by a surreal animated video by Beth Jeans Houghton, a.k.a. Du Blonde. “Desperate times make for desperate songs,” Furman wrote of the song in …
Read More »Watch LGBTQ Activists Talk Stonewall Uprising in 'Generation Woodstock' Clip
LGBTQ activists document how they translated oppression into “joyous” rebellion in a trailer for Generation Woodstock, an upcoming ABC News special about the late Sixties counterculture movement that spawned both the titular music festival and the Stonewall Uprising. “I had worked late that night, walked up Christopher Street, and I …
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