Just this week, Andrew Leahey & the Homestead played 10 gigs over five days aboard the annual Rock Boat cruise, including one on the main deck stage in the pounding rain. Such marathon schedules are par for the course for Leahey, a Virginia native, Nashville resident and occasional Rolling Stone …
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Samantha Bee examined President Donald Trump’s growing — and worrying — interest in Venezuela, and warned that his administration’s actions and personnel decisions hint at not just the Iraq War, but America’s catastrophic actions in Latin America during the Cold War. On Full Frontal Wednesday, Bee noted how the Trump …
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Texas-based singer-songwriter Joshua Ray Walker imagines several different characters going about their lives in the new video for his song “Canyon.” The powerful, mostly acoustic tune appears on Walker’s debut album Wish You Were Here, released on January 25th. “I’m afraid of flying, afraid of falling, truth be told/I’m don’t …
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Lately, we’ve all gotten so used to seeing people at the highest levels of government committing crimes right out in the open, that when you hear about an Instagram account stealing jokes and passing them off as their own, it’s easy for most of us to shrug it off. But …
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LANY frontman Paul Jason Klein croons on the back of a moving car in the band’s breezy “Thick and Thin” video. Throughout the clip, the singer strikes various poses while belting the laid-back funk-pop tune. The car’s mysterious driver cruises down the California coastline next to an idyllic sunset, eventually …
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Time may or may not be a flat circle, but the success rate of Wayne Hays and Roland West sure is. This week’s True Detective — “If You Have Ghosts” — comes straight from series creator Nic Pizzolatto, who shows our heroes working together diligently to solve the mystery of …
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The strings swirl, Sid Vicious descends a staircase and begins doing his best Chairman of the Board impression (even if it sounds a bit more like Dracula than Sinatra), and then everything implodes in his cover version of “My Way.” The bassist gave the song a punk-rock makeover for his …
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Electronic experimentalist Yves Tumor offers a jarring examination of the police state in the new video for “Noid.” The track appears on Tumor’s acclaimed 2018 album, Safe In the Hands of Love. On “Noid,” Tumor’s lyrics grapple with police brutality, especially the effect it has on people who may not …
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Portishead singer Beth Gibbons’ concert with the Polish National Radio Symphony — a performance of Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No. 3— will be the focus of a live album due out in March. Domino will release both an audio and video recording of HenrykGórecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs), …
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James Ingram, the multi-talented R&B artist who notched hits as both a singer and songwriter, died Tuesday, The New York Times reports. He was 66. Ingram’s friend and collaborator, Debbie Allen, confirmed the news on Twitter, writing, “I have lost my dearest friend and creative partner James Ingram to the …
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