Janelle Monae released one of 2018’s most buzzed-about albums this spring with Dirty Computer, and now she’s taking a victory lap through Austin City Limits. In early October, between her performances at the Austin City Limits music festival, she taped an hour-long set for the long-running PBS television series. The …
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Young Thug, born Jeffery Williams, was released from jail on Wednesday, November 14th. The Atlanta rapper was imprisoned on November 8th after failing a court-mandated drug test and spent six days in DeKalb County Jail. Superior Court Judge Gregory Adams reinstated Williams’ bond under the condition that he submits to …
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Richard Matt and David Sweat’s 2015 upstate New York prison break was compared to The Shawshank Redemption because the duo cut through the walls of their cells and took a long tunnel to freedom. But if their methods were cinematic, their personalities — and that of Joyce “Tilly” Mitchell, the …
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Robyn will embark on a North American tour next year in support of her latest album, Honey. The 11-date trek kicks off February 23rd at the Palladium in Los Angeles, California and includes stops in cities like Oakland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, Washington D.C. and Boston. Robyn will also perform a …
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With a chance at a third consecutive CMA Vocal Duo of the Year award on the line later this week, Brothers Osborne are busy plotting out their 2019 plans with news of more than 40 new tour dates that will include Wild Feathers, Ruston Kelly, and Devon Gilfillian as opening …
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Tuesday’s midterms were all about the “blue wave” of voters who helped the Democrats take back majority control of the House of Representatives, but in Nevada, the crimson wave had its own victory. The state became the 10th in the nation to eliminate the so-called “tampon tax,” meaning women will …
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After wrapping up their yearlong Las Vegas residency in April 2019, Backstreet Boys have set dates for their 2019 DNA World Tour, their biggest arena trek in 18 years, in support of their upcoming new album DNA. The DNA World Tour opens in Europe in May before heading to North …
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“I love Coldplay!” Ryley Walker yells in the middle of a crowded bar in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood. “There, I said it.” It’s been a long journey to get to this point, but after years of disavowing his passion for bands like Coldplay, Switchfoot and DC Talk in order to …
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Beginning with 1979’s acrimonious Broken English, Marianne Faithfull has spent the last four decades gracefully transitioning into the Grande Dame of Melancholy, the High Priestess of Dusky Rock, capable of bridging the chasm between Kurt Weill’s dramatic ballads and the gothy rock of artists like Nick Cave and PJ Harvey. …
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Saddle up for a rowdy, rip-snorting, hilarity-and-hellfire western full of riding, fighting, hanging, shooting, gold prospecting and bloody massacres — plus silly songs, a limbless poet, cowboy love rituals and philosophical musings about the inevitability of dying. Yes, it’s all in one movie. Who does things like that? Try Joel …
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