“We gotta change around here,” Mavis Staples sang toward the very end of Wednesday night’s 18th annual Americana Honors & Awards Ceremony at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Having been presented the evening’s Inspiration Award by pioneering Civil Rights activist and Freedom Rider Ernest Patton earlier in the evening, Staples’ song was …
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Kiss‘ Paul Stanley called for action on gun violence in America following the latest mass shooting in Odessa and Midland, Texas, where seven people were killed and over 20 injured. “We don’t have more ‘crazy’ or ‘mentally unstable’ people in the US. What we DO have are commonplace mass shootings …
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Lana Del Rey has always been a pop classicist at heart — but she’s finally made her pop classic. The long-awaited Norman Fucking Rockwell is even more massive and majestic than everyone hoped it would be. Lana turns her fifth and finest album into a tour of sordid American dreams, …
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This article is a part of RS Recommends, an editorial series reviewing products in music and entertainment. Items are independently selected; Penske Media may earn a commission from purchases made from our links. Originally formed in the late 1960s under the name the New Yardbirds, the band later changed their …
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Peter Fonda, the Oscar-nominated actor whose roles in Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider and Roger Corman’s The Trip made him a counterculture hero in the late 1960s, died Friday at the age of 79. The cause of death was respiratory failure due to lung cancer, his family confirmed to People. “It …
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The sudden jail-cell death of the sex-offender socialite Jeffrey Epstein in federal custody has left the country baffled. How could such a high profile prisoner, who’d already allegedly attempted to kill himself, be left unattended and in position to cause himself harm? “Mr. Epstein’s death raises serious questions that must …
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Top campaign staffers for Bernie Sanders held a press call Monday, and the message was positive. The senator, they said, is doing well and won the last debate. And polls show, they added, that the country cares about his favored issues, particularly health care. But that’s not always, his staff …
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On Monday, federal investigators arrested a 33-year-old woman named Paige Thompson, a software engineer who is alleged to have singlehandedly orchestrated the Capitol One data breach, resulting in more than 100 million people’s personal data becoming compromised. The data included 140,000 Social Security numbers and more than 80,000 individual bank …
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In a world where Lil Nas X has an unbeatable country smash, it’s hard to blame the likes of Maren Morris — who was performing in Texas honky-tonks at the age of 10 — for branching out. In the wake of 2018’s ubiquitous, super-poppy Zedd collaboration “The Middle,” Morris, 29, …
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“Grossed half a Billi on the Divide tour…” Ed Sheeran is learning the ways of the hip-hop megastar. The above commercially revealing, braggadocious lyric pops up within “Take Me Back To London”, the fourth track on Sheeran’s new album, No. 6 Collaborations Project, which is currently the most popular long-player …
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