In continuing recognition of its wide range of influences, from country, folk and bluegrass to gospel, soul and blues, the Americana Music Association takes its latest recipient of a special honor from all three of the latter categories. New Orleans singer-songwriter Irma Thomas will be awarded a 2018 Lifetime Achievement …
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Taylor Swift welcomed Robbie Williams to the stage during her Saturday night concert at London’s Wembley Stadium to perform the British singer’s 1997 hit “Angels.” Swift opened the ballad alone at the piano before Williams – wearing a Reputation Tour shirt – emerged onstage unannounced, sparking a thunderous response from …
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John McCain, in Arizona receiving treatment for brain cancer, tweeted about Donald Trump’s barbarous immigration policy this week. “The administration’s current family separation policy is an affront to the decency of the American people, and contrary to principles and values upon which our nation was founded,” the senator wrote. Those …
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Forget Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, forget Hillary Clinton’s and James Comey’s ridiculously self-serving memoirs. Former chief book critic for The New York Times Michiko Kakutani has written the first great book of the Trump administration. The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump (out July …
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Florence and the Machine grapple with the anguish of getting ghosted on their brooding new ballad, “Big God.” The track will appear on the band’s upcoming album, High as Hope, out June 29th. “Big God” mixes a low, plaintive piano melody with sparse and steady percussion, and finds Florence Welch …
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Nearly 2,000 migrant children have been ripped from their parents at the border under President Trump’s new “zero-tolerance” policy – state-sponsored trauma intended to deter undocumented immigration and even asylum seekers. New photos of separated migrant children in border patrol custody show them in oversize kennels, sleeping on mats on …
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Most Eighties and Nineties babies remember the Truth Campaign: The series of anti-smoking ads that took a fresh and unflinching stance on the dangers of cigarette smoking. The TV spots pulled no punches. They featured images that were difficult to look at, like people with tracheotomies and voice boxes singing …
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Ryan Adams breezed through Denver, Colorado’s ABC affiliate, Denver7 to fulfill a lifelong dream and deliver the nightly weather report Wednesday. Adams credited his interest in meteorology to the 1996 movie Twister, and as he took his place in front of the green screen, he joked,“Ok, I don’t know what …
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A review of the Legion season finale – and thoughts on Season Two as a whole – coming up just as soon as I repeat the story about the time I cut the head off a Minotaur … Late in “Chapter 19,” David Haller‘s friends stage an extreme intervention for …
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In Utah, the Knights of Crystal Blade – a radical, fundamentalist Mormon offshoot – is under investigation for the abduction and assault of underage child brides.Authorities have charged Robert Shane Rowe – a man from California who was allegedly promised a child bride – with one count of child sodomy.Last …
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