Old Crow Medicine Show‘s new album, Volunteer, out April 20th, marks two decades that have taken the string-band sextet from busking on street corners to Grammy success and membership in the Grand Ole Opry. But despite their achievements, founding member Ketch Secor still feels like an outsider to country music …
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Midway through Howard Stern’s uproarious speech inducting Bon Jovi into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the King of All Media took a brief break from cracking jokes about Richie Sambora’s penis and Tico Torres’ farts to make a serious point about the evening. “If I can be emotional …
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On his first album, John Prine sang “I am an old woman, named after my mother/My old man is another child that’s grown old.” The song was “Angel From Montgomery,” and he wrote it when he was 22, best he can recall. But he was an old 22: An Army …
Read More »The New Jazz Torchbearer: Kamasi Washington on His Musical Message
Despite all the hosannas he’s garnered up to this point – being hailed as a primary architect of a West Coast jazz revival, featured in the Whitney Museum’s prestigious Biennial and playing to thousands at Coachella – Kamasi Washington, 37, doesn’t see himself as the guy. Sure, he was an …
Read More »Carrie Underwood Announces 'Cry Pretty' Song, Shares Health Update
Carrie Underwood shared a lengthy note with members of her fan club on Tuesday, revealing the title of her upcoming single and offering a glimpse into her recovery from a nasty fall in November that required surgery to her wrist and stitches to her face. “My wrist is almost back …
Read More »'The Walking Dead' Recap: Simon Says
Last week, The Walking Deadended with Negan meeting an unseen character on the road, someone who he described thus: “If shit could shit it still wouldn’t look as shitty as you.” [Sigh] The man with the Louisville Slugger then drove this person back to the Sanctuary, before enlisting the mystery …
Read More »Cardi B Reveals Struggle for Success, Denies 'Sneak-Dissing' Nicki Minaj
Cardi B dismissed the rumors of feuding with Nicki Minaj and enthused about the wide range of collaborators – including Chance the Rapper and SZA – on her newly issued debut LP, Invasion of Privacy, in a new interview withApple Music’s Beats 1 Radio. The loquacious Bronx emcee denied Internet …
Read More »See Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats Wow the Opry With 'A Little Honey'
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats have been riding high the past month with the success of “You Worry Me,” their second single to reach Number One on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Songs chart. But they also achieved another milestone with their first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry, where they …
Read More »'The Walking Dead' Recap: #FreeMorgan
Anyone who keeps up with all the news about The Walking Dead franchise probably already knows that the character Morgan Jones will be moving over to Fear the Walking Dead when the spinoff series’ fourth season debuts in two weeks. So now’s as good a time as any to ask: …
Read More »Rob Sheffield: Why the New 'Roseanne' Reboot Just Plain Sucks
Let’s be real for a second: The real Roseanne reboot had already happened long before this past Tuesday, and it was called Lady Bird. Darlene was now going to Catholic school; Aunt Jackie was playing the mom. But otherwise, Greta Gerwig’s film had all the tropes that made the originalRoseanne …
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