The crowd at CMA Fest was clearly a bit disappointed. Billy Ray Cyrus had played an early set on Saturday night at Nissan Stadium, blazing through bar-band standards like “Keep Your Hands to Yourself” as well as his own hits like “Some Gave All” and “Achy Breaky Heart” before saying …
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Pharrell Williams pays tribute to influential music executive Clarence Avant in the producer-singer’s new track “Letter to My Godfather,” a song from the Netflix documentary The Black Godfather. “Clarence Avant connects us all through his incredible impact since before I was born up until now,” Williams said in a statement. …
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Alt-rock/EDM trio ARIZONA have shared a song collaboration with Avicii, featured on the Swedish DJ’s posthumous album Tim, out now. The song, “Hold the Line,” is a powerful confrontation of loss and grief, made all the more poignant with Avicii’s sudden passing last year: “We don’t get to die young/Trouble …
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Dark Phoenix doesn’t just suck big time. It’s the worst movie ever in the X-Men series. That’s 12 films since the first X-Men in 2000. Even series low points — that’s you X-Men Apocalypse — offered compensations. Dark Phoenix just lies there like a dying fish, futilely flapping about on …
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When Armistead Maupin began writing Tales of the City —his serialized, sudsy stories about life in San Francisco in the late Seventies —the central character was a very naive, very straight Midwestern girl, Mary Ann Singleton. Mary Ann served as a point-of-entry figure for readers unversed in queer fiction, just …
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Jared Kushner was named a White House adviser solely by the grace of his marriage to the president’s daughter. Given his lack of experience, he has largely — and wisely — opted to avoid the media and work behind the scenes. This changed recently when Kushner decided to sit down …
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Reggae scion Skip Marley stakes a strong claim for himself on his new song, “Enemy.” The track finds Bob Marley’s grandson living up to his lineage while finding new ways to push the boundaries of the genre, blending a deep dub groove with percussion that drifts seamlessly between sharp trap …
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Vicente Zambada Niebla, the son of one of Mexico’s most powerful drug lords, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Thursday morning, but could be a free man in as little as five years. Zambada, 44, appeared contrite in Chicago federal court as he begged for forgiveness for the …
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Few things are more important to President Trump than trampling over the lives of those he feels have wronged him. Venerated war heroes are no exception, as he’s demonstrated through his repeated attacks against former Arizona senator John McCain, who did not support Trump’s candidacy and in 2017 voted against …
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Mitch McConnell once again confirmed the obvious on Tuesday: That he is, and always has been, totally full of shit. While speaking at a Paducah Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Kentucky, the Senate majority leader was asked for his position on confirming a new Supreme Court justice should a sitting …
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