One of AmericanaFest’s most uplifting off-campus offerings was Queer Roots, a first-time showcase celebrating the diversity of sexual and gender identities represented across roots music. Held at East Nashville bar the Crying Wolf, the event was presented by Change Project, BriteHeart, Strange Fire, Hearth PR and Rolling Stone Country. Nashville’s …
Read More »Toronto Film Festival 2018: Michael Moore, Errol Morris and the Pitfalls of Political Docs
A man sat in an office, railing that conservatives did not have a voice in the liberally-biased, mainstream-media landscape. So he started a channel of his own to give them a loud megaphone. A man sat at a desk, staring at the online site he oversaw after its creator shuffled …
Read More »Ciara Taps Marching Band for Resilient New Song 'Dose'
Ciara recruited marching band percussion and brass for her vibrant new single “Dose.” The song plays like a motivational speech aimed at listeners and the vocalist herself.“I’m a groundbreaking woman/ I get loud when I wanna/ Put me down, I’ll go harder,” she sings over brass blasts and rattling snares. …
Read More »Mac Miller's Fans, Friends and Grandmother Gathered at Blue Slide Park to Pay Their Respects
The city of Pittsburgh gathered on Tuesday, September 11, to remember Mac Miller at the place he shined a national light on, Frick Park. The 26-year-old rapper died Friday, September 7, at his Los Angeles home of an apparent overdose. Four days later, thousands of people gathered to pay their …
Read More »See Carrie Underwood's Colorful 'Love Wins' Video
Carrie Underwood hosts a vibrant, colorful party for unity in the new “Love Wins” video. The hopeful song is the latest single from Underwood’s upcoming album Cry Pretty, which will be released Friday, September 14th. “Love Wins” aims to be a balm in divisive times, with Underwood reaching across the …
Read More »Watch Bill Murray Crash Wedding, Kickball Game in New Doc Trailer
Bill Murray has a penchant for popping up in the most unexpected places. Over the last few years, he’s appeared at bachelor parties, ice cream socials and karaoke clubs, leaving behind a trail of awe-struck fans. Those remarkable encounters are the focus of the new documentary, The Bill Murray Stories: …
Read More »'You Did This To Him': Ariana Grande, Mac Miller and the Demonization of Women in Toxic Relationships
Mac Miller and Ariana Grande‘s relationship fell unusually under the tabloid radar for the majority of their two-year run. It was their breakup in May that finally captured public attention, especially since it was followed eight days later by Miller crashing his car while intoxicated and, just weeks after that, …
Read More »'It Was A Porn Movie': Atlantic's First Female A&R Exec Reveals the Worst of the Music Industry
“Men are going to try to break you,” one of Dorothy Carvello’s teachers told her in grade school — and, she says, they were words that seemed to prove true every day she worked in the record industry. Carvello began as a secretary to legendary Atlantic Records president and co-founder …
Read More »Hear John Hiatt Explore Aging in Funky New Song 'Over the Hill'
With “Over the Hill,” the latest track to be released from John Hiatt‘s upcoming LP, The Eclipse Sessions, the 66-year-old songwriting legend offers craggy bits of wisdom and wit on aging, singing, “I’m long in the tooth, what can I say / I take huge bites of life and I …
Read More »Kings of Leon Recruit Sheryl Crow, Little Big Town for Nashville Food Festival
Kings of Leon will pay tribute to the disco hits of the Seventies and Eighties when they headline the 2018 Harvest Night at Music City Food + Wine Festival in Nashville, which will also feature performances by Sheryl Crow and Little Big Town. Set for September 15th, Harvest Night promises …
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