Life on the road can often by an unglamorous existence, but for musicians who have families it can also mean missing out seeing their kids grow up. Corey Smith has a touching new song, “Halfway Home,” in which he addresses the separation of the touring life. Sung with the soft-spoken …
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This D.C. quartet’s terse debut grinds and giggles as it flips off the status quo, taking the old saw about dancing’s place in a revolution and repurposing it as a credo for a perpetual-motion, no-jerks-allowed mosh pit. Vocalist Adriana-Lucia Cotes has an urgent yelp that gives her bandmates’ spiky, nimble …
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Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring from his seat on the Supreme Court, the court announced Wednesday afternoon. According to the release, the 81-year-old will officially step down July 31st. “It has been the greatest honor and privilege to serve our nation in the federal judiciary for 43 years, 30 of …
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Late Monday night, Lil Yachty and Valee dropped off their first collaboration to date, the curiously titled “Wombo,” on SoundCloud. It’s an incongruous pairing. Yachty’s best known for his sheer force of personality and red braids – his technical approach to rapping can generally be described as lackadaisical. Valee, a …
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Being raised in a home of Orthodox Faith had its pros and cons for me. My parents raised me in the faith that they truly believed would lead to me having my best life (and afterlife) – Mormonism. Being a Mormon is not a part time religion. It is your …
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EDM trio Cheat Codes enlisted British pop group Little Mix for their new single “Only You.”The singers croon about how lonely they are (“Dancing with your silhouette in the places that we met,” they try’na find you in the moon”) over rippling electric guitar, pitch-shifted vocal samples and skittering electronic …
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Cher and actor Andy Garcia unite for a delightfully dramatic cover of ABBA‘s “Fernando,” set to appear on the soundtrack for the upcoming movie, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. This new version of “Fernando” finds Cher‘s resonant vocals drifting over the song’s signature fluttering flutes and marching drums. Garcia …
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WASHINGTON – The strange saga of the EPA and its no-bid contract with a Republican consulting firm that specializes in “war room style” media monitoring just got stranger. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) sent a letter on Tuesday to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt demanding more answers for …
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As the outcry over the situation at the border swelled to a deafening pitch Monday morning, President’s Trump’s mind was elsewhere. In fact, it wasn’t even within Earth’s atmosphere, where it would have been bound by pesky forces like gravity and reality. While contemplating the infinite frontier during a meeting …
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EDITORS’ PICK: Christina Aguilera, Liberation “On Liberation, [Aguilera] gets closer than ever to zeroing in on the right path for her immense skills,” writes Brittany Spanos. “Her eighth album is a healthy mix of hit-chasing, theatrics and soon-to-be classic power ballads that emphasize her immense skills over half-baked conceptual themes…Once …
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