Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real have never performed on Austin City Limits before, but they sure act like they own the place in a sizzling jam of “Find Yourself,” seen in a video from their debut appearance on the PBS program set to air this weekend. Nelson and …
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In late May, 1968, the Beatles convened at guitarist George Harrison’s English country home with an extraordinary body of raw materials for their next album. The so-called “Esher demos” — 27 songs taped on Harrison’s four-track machine — were at once stark and full, solo acoustic blueprints already outfitted with …
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The 2019 Country Radio Seminar has announced Jason Aldean as its featured speaker. CRS, the annual gathering of country radio programmers, DJs and power players, is set for February 13th through 15th in Nashville. Aldean is slated to engage in a 60-minute discussion titled “Overcoming Obstacles,” in which he’ll talk …
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A Blue Wave has broken Republican control of Congress. Democrats have secured morethan two dozen seats toreclaim the House of Representatives for the first time since 2010. Armed with subpoena power, Democrats are now in position to put a critical check on President Trump, holding him accountable to both the …
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Everyone wants an “I Voted” sticker or hashtag, but not everyone wants to bother earning it. Jimmy Kimmel Live tested that premise on Monday’s episode with the latest installment of “Lie Witness News,” surveying ordinary Americans about casting their ballots in the 2018 midterm election –days before they were capable …
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Janet Jackson performed a three-song medley of hits at Sunday’s MTV European Music Awards, where the Rock Hall-nominated singer was honored with the event’s Global Icon Award. The majority of Jackson’s medley focused on her recent Daddy Yankee-assisted single “Made for Now,” with the singer briefly reviving her classic “Rhythm …
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In Homecoming, the new Amazon series fromMr. Robotcreator Sam Esmail (it premieres today), Julia Roberts plays Heidi Bergman, a onetime employee at a shadowy project codenamed Homecoming that was designed to help soldiers readjust to civilian life. An auditor (Shea Whigham) from the Department of Defense comes asking questions years …
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Music’s most innovative business was about to implode. This time last year, Pandora was in dire straits.The company had gone from being the music industry‘s gilded pioneer — exciting everyone from teens to retirees with the newfangled idea of Internet radio at the turn of the century — to a …
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Since the #MeToo movement started gathering momentum in Hollywood last year, there have been questions about whether the reckoning would come for other industries — whether this moment was a real sea change or just more Hollywood showmanship. But an international walk-out by Google employees Thursday morning to protest the …
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Johnny Marr covered a lot of ground when he stopped by our podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now, for an in-depth interview, from the break-up of the Smiths to his excellent new solo album Call the Comet. To hear the entire interview, press play below or download and subscribe oniTunesorSpotify. More …
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