The rigors of the road took a toll on Drew Holcomb. Around the release of 2017’sSouvenir, the sturdy-voiced Tennessee troubadour — originally from Memphis, but now based in Nashville — was exhausted by the nonstop cycle of churning out albums, then touring relentlessly in support, and wound up hospitalized for …
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Grace VanderWaal loves you but doesn’t like you on new song “I Don’t Like You.” The singer-songwriter wrapped her Ur So Beautiful Tour late last month. On “I Don’t Like You,” VanderWaal details the dueling emotions she feels for her partner, especially as fights and insecurities threaten to tear them …
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Cody Simpson has released a stripped back new single, “Golden Thing,” which takes its inspiration from Miley Cyrus. The emotional song, performed mostly on acoustic guitar, pays tribute to Cyrus as he sings, “Diamond throne/ All on her own/ Coffee skin/ She let me in.” The song, which Simpson teased …
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President Trump wrote a letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan last week that has to rank among the most bizarre collection of sentences to ever appear on White House letterhead. In the letter, a copy of which was released Wednesday by Trish Regan of Fox Business, the president exhorts …
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Fifty-nine years ago today, on Saturday, October 15th, 1960, Loretta Lynn, the daughter of a Kentucky coal miner, took the stage of the Grand Ole Opry for the first time. With her debut single climbing the charts, the young wife and mother of four (who would later have a fifth …
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As expected, President Trump’s decision to pull U.S. troops away from the Syria–Turkey border, effectively endorsing a Turkish assault on the U.S.-allied Kurds occupying northern Syria, has been a disaster. Trump made the call last Sunday after a phone call with Turkish President Recep Erdoğan, and without consulting the Pentagon …
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This weekend’s Rolling Loud hip-hop festival in New York removed five rappers from its lineup following a request from the New York Police Department warning of the “public safety concerns” the rappers pose. In an October 9th letter from the NYPD to Rolling Loud that was tweeted by Karen Civil, …
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The Jamaican singer Jada Kingdom broke out with “Best You Ever Had (B.Y.E.H.),” a bouncy track about a cruelly one-sided relationship: “You tore my heart out and threw it in the bin,” she sang, “but I still wanna bless you.” The narrator of “Finally” is in a better place. “You …
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If you’re confused about changes to Bernie Sanders‘ campaign following his heart attack last week, you’re not alone. A day after telling reporters he planned to scale back the intensity of his schedule, Sanders told NBC Nightly News on Wednesday that he “misspoke,” and that he plans to resume business …
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Panda Bear has shared his bass-heavy new song “Playing the Long Game,” a one-off single that follows the Animal Collective member’s 2019 solo LP Buoys. Like that album, “Playing the Long Game” boasts production by Rusty Santos, who worked with Panda Bear to create Buoys’ “hyper-modern,” sub-bass-reliant sound. “We would …
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