Sharon Van Etten‘s Remind Me Tomorrow won’t be out for another 10 days, but it’s already shaping up as a major moment in the singer-songwriter’s career, boosting the emotional clarity of her past work with a new pop power. Take “Seventeen,” the synth-buzzed stunner that Van Etten released today as …
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At last September’s International Bluegrass Music Association Awards, also known as the “Hillbilly Grammys,” the smart money was on Jerry Douglas’ Earls of Leicester to win the Entertainer of the Year grand prize. Formed to pay tribute to bluegrass forefathers Flatt & Scruggs, the Earls were reigning champions for the …
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The government has been operating under a partial shutdown since December 21st, depriving 800,000 federal employees of their entire paychecks. Meanwhile, hundreds of senior Trump appointees are getting $10,000 raises, the Washington Post reported on Friday. This was an accident. Maybe.In 2013, Congress passed a law capping the salaries of …
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In December, the singer Jacquees declared himself the “King of R&B” for his generation, eliciting a string of dismissive reactions from luminaries like P. Diddy and Keith Sweat. The debate was silly: Not long ago, people were declaring R&B dead, and there is no pure singer right now putting up …
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WASHINGTON — Jay Inslee, the Democratic governor of Washington state, has moved closer to entering the 2020 presidential race. And he’s betting on the idea that Americans care enough about the existential threat of our time — climate change — to elect a president with a laser-like, almost singular focus …
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Washington state officials passed a bill to rename a post office nearJimi Hendrix‘s hometown of Seattle to honor the guitar god. Both of Washington’s U.S. senators, Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, supported Rep. Adam Smith’s bill to rechristen Renton Highlands Post Office as the James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix Post Office. …
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Eccentric billionaire Elon Musk and his attorneys filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit from a man Musk called a “pedo guy” following the dramatic rescue of 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach trapped in a cave. In a filing made on Wednesday, Musk’s lawyers claim his insults aimed …
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Singer Mark Wills, who topped the country chart with hits including “Wish You Were Here” and “19 Somethin’” will usher in 2019 as the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry. Longtime Opry member Vince Gill issued the invitation to a visibly moved Wills, who dropped to his knees before …
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Sam Smithshared a stirring new ballad, “Fire on Fire,” his contribution to BBC 1 and Netflix’s Watership Down adaptation. “When we fight, we fight like lions / But then we love and feel the truth / We lose our minds in a city of roses / We won’t abide by …
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When Eric Clapton first heard the Band, he knew he was done with Cream. “I’m in the wrong place with the wrong people doing the wrong thing,” the guitarist later recalled thinking, and he wasn’t the only one left stunned by the group’s laid-back revolution. Synthesizing R&B, country, blues and …
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