Lucero have been in the game for a solid 20 years at this point. As the Memphis ensemble prepares to celebrate their second decade as band with a new LP, Among the Ghosts, they track a trip down memory lane and pull out some old camcorder footage for the nostalgic …
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The Black Eyed Peas survey the chaos in America’s streets in the politically charged video for new song “Get It.” “Get It” is a sparse, haunting cut and the Ben Mor-directed clip reflects the track’s eerie undertones. In the video, the camera moves down a city block, capturing a violent …
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Colter Wall‘s music often feels like it’s ripped from the lives of forgotten people from decades and even centuries past, and his latest release is exactly that – for many American fans, anyway. “Calgary Round-Up” sees the Canadian singer-songwriter tackling a signature tune by one of his home country’s seminal …
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Scott Pruitt finally stepped downfrom his controversial perch atop the EPA on Thursday. Roughly 24 hours after attending a Fourth of July picnic on the White House lawn and only a few hours after the New York Times reported that he fired an aide for questioning the legality of deleting …
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Oakland-based rapper Boots Riley scores a knockout debut as a director with Sorry to Bother You, a no-mercy satire that gets up in your face, breaks all the rules – and then invents new rules so it can break them too. Did you expect any less from the leader of …
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We have a serious new contender for the title of Most Fun Episode of 2018, courtesy of Netflix‘s Eighties wrestling comedy GLOW. The second season’s eighth installment, “The Good Twin,” is … an episode of GLOW. That is, it’s an episode of the cheesy local TV show that Debbie (Betty …
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As news that Drake‘s Scorpion would be a double album swept around the internet this week, it was quickly followed by a tantalizing rumor – one of the two LPs would be rap, while the other would be entirely R&B. Drake became a star by mixing these forms; now he …
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Sasquatch! Music Festival will not be taking place in 2019, Willamette Week reports. Founder Adam Zacks announced the news on Thursday. “Today we take a bow and bid farewell to Sasquatch!,” Zacks said in a statement. “I will no longer be producing the festival, nor will it take place in …
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“I gotta say, when it comes down to discovering weird samples, that dude’s kind of all over it,” says Now Again Records founder Eothen “Egon” Alapatt of Kanye West, the superstar producer who’s dropped five sample-soaked releases in the past five weeks. “He has a lot of help, of course, …
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Director David Lynch accused President Donald Trump of “causing suffering and division” in a Facebook post in which he clarified comments he made about Trump that he claims right-wing media outlets took out of context. In an interview with The Guardian published Saturday, Lynch said that Trump “could go down …
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