Wilco delivered a tender rendition of their cautionary love song “Love Is Everywhere (Beware)” on Late Night With Seth Meyers Monday. The performance found the band in fine form as guitarist Nels Cline laced bright finger-tapped licks over the song’s soothing country rock sway. “Right now, right now/Love is everywhere,” …
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Fan recordings of Bruce Springsteen‘s emotional Asbury Park show have been circling in the years since the Boss hit the stage on November 24th, 1996 for the start of a three-night stand. Now, Springsteen has just officially released the show as the latest offering from his ongoing live download series. …
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Beto O’Rourke is dropping out of the presidential race, a surprising move from the former U.S. Senate candidate from Texas who was once considered among the frontrunners to land the Democratic nomination. “Our campaign has always been about seeing clearly, speaking honestly, and acting decisively,” O’Rourke wrote on Twitter. “In …
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Everyone remembers the sweater, but I mostly remember the hush. Twenty-five years ago today, Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in New Yorkarrived on CD, cassette, and VHS tape. By then, Kurt Cobain had been dead nearly seven months, and the appearance of this largely acoustic performance, taped nearly a year before, took …
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It’s an exciting time for the owners of Universal Music Group. Paris-based Vivendi, parent to the world’s biggest recorded music company, updated its shareholders this month with the news that a $3 billion–plus deal with China’s Tencent — the latter company is set to acquire 10%–20% in UMG – should …
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Sharon Lavigne knows some 30 people who have died in and around her tiny parish of St. James, Louisiana, in just the past five years. She buried two close friends this past weekend — one died of cancer, the other heart disease. Two of her brothers have cancer, and her …
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Gospel star Kirk Franklin said he will boycott the Gospel Music Association’s annual Dove Awards after comments he made about Atatiana Jefferson — a 28-year-old black woman killed in her home by a white police officer — were cut from this year’s broadcast. The Dove Awards took place October 15th, …
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The impeachment inquiry launched last month by Democrats in the House of Representatives has already turned up a trove of evidence suggesting the Trump administration offered a quid pro quo to Ukraine. No witness laid it out with more clarity than U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor did last week. …
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Jack White will return to his former high school Sunday to perform at Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders‘ Detroit rally. Sanders, along with U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, are set to speak at the Arena Gymnasium of Cass Technical High School, which counts White, a 1993 graduate, among its …
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Apparently, James Corden‘s father isn’t his real father. In a segment on The Late Late Show called “Father Finders” Corden seeks out his real dad, who turns out to be none other than Marcus Mumford, frontman of Mumford & Sons. “I took a test and it’s a perfect match,” Corden …
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