A month before Woodstock 50 was announced, the festival was already in deep trouble. Last December, Michael Lang, the co-founder of the original 1969 event who had become its bemused-hippie symbol in subsequent decades, was in talks with an upstate New York racetrack for a fest that would mark the …
Read More »Blake Shelton, Trace Adkins Want You to Raise 'Hell Right' in Rowdy New Collab
After boasting about their “Hillbilly Bone” in 2010, Blake Shelton and Trace Adkins reunite for Shelton’s new single “Hell Right.” It’s every bit as chest-puffing as one might expect, with Shelton commanding, “If you’re gonna raise hell, then you better damn raise hell right” in the tongue-twisting chorus. Written by …
Read More »Are the Proud Boys Done or Are They Just Getting Started?
Over the past year, the extremist, far-right group the Proud Boys has undergone what appears to have been a dramatic implosion. Gavin McInnes, the group’s bombastic, ironically mustachioed founder (and the co-founder of Vice magazine), resigned late last year. More recently, the group was one of the targets of social …
Read More »Mumford & Sons Recruit Jenny Lewis, Phoebe Bridgers for Cancun Festival
Mumford & Sons have enlisted Jenny Lewis, Phoebe Bridgers, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats and more to join them in Cancun, Mexico for the band’s inaugural Agora Del Mar, a three-day festival scheduled for February 2020. “We have not spent enough time in Mexico and we want to make …
Read More »See Vivian Girls Run Wild in New 'Something to Do' Video
Vivian Girls surprised fans with a reunion in July; now the band follows the good news with their latest track, “Something to Do,” the second single off their comeback album, Memory. The new song sees the Brooklyn-turned-L.A. rock trio meld classic surf-pop melodies with brackish, interjecting punk riffs. In their …
Read More »Curt Schilling Threatens To Run For Congress: 'Someone in Charge Needs Their Ass Kicked'
Curt Schilling, failed businessman, Q-Anon evangelist, collector of Nazi memorabilia, and former Red Sox pitcher, is mulling a run for the House of Representatives. Schilling confirmed to the Arizona Republic he is considering a bid for public office on an anti-immigration platform. “The state is not the state I grew …
Read More »Americana Artist You Need to Know: Che Apalache
As a young man, Che Apalache leader Joe Troop left his native North Carolina and spent time working and playing music in other parts of the world — Spain, Morocco, and Japan, before settling in Argentina. He’s lived the immigrant experience as an American abroad, and that instilled in him …
Read More »Universal Cancels 'The Hunt' Release After Trump Criticism
Universal Pictures announced Saturday that the studio has canceled its planned release for the upcoming horror film The Hunt, just a day after President Donald Trump seemed to criticize the movie and “liberal Hollywood” in a series of tweets. In the aftermath of the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings, …
Read More »Climate Activist Bill McKibben Arrested Protesting Trump's Immigration Policies
Bill McKibben is no stranger to getting arrested for protesting. Usually it’s when he’s protesting fossil fuel companies in response climate change, but on Thursday, the climate activist was arrested along with six others who refused to leave Rep. Elise Stefanik‘s (R-N.Y.) Glen Falls office in a protest of President …
Read More »Glen Campbell Museum Slated for Downtown Nashville
Country-pop legend Glen Campbell will soon join other iconic stars including Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline with a museum and performance venue celebrating his legacy in downtown Nashville. Marking the second anniversary of the musician’s death on August 8th, 2017, Clearbrook Hospitality announced plans today for the Glen Campbell Museum …
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