Dolly Parton‘s surprise appearance at the Newport Folk Festival on Saturday night wasn’t just an emotional moment for the crowd, but the artists too. Prior to Parton taking the stage, she gathered the visibly moved Highwomen — the new group of Brandi Carlile, Amanda Shires, Natalie Hemby, and Maren Morris …
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Rap’s biggest commercial asset of the year has been broad, virality-prone comedy. If a rapper isn’t impersonating one of the most infamous label bosses in the genre’s history, singing about about horses and hot-pressed sandwiches, or pandering to TikTok, the song is likely a tree falling in a very empty …
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The music, friendship, and hardships of country greats Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn are examined in the trailer for the new film Patsy & Loretta, which premieres on Lifetime October 19th. Megan Hilty (The Good Wife, 9 to 5: The Musical) stars as Cline, who preceded Lynn (played by Jessie …
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Samantha Bee is all about authenticity when it comes to portraying a character in Cats, despite not being cast for any parts in the forthcoming film. “I’ll pee in a box. I will barf on your wooden kitchen spoons,” she says in a clip from Wednesday’s Full Frontal cold open. …
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To impeach or not to impeach. That has been the question vexing congressional Democrats since they took control of the House of Representatives last November. The push to begin proceedings became more urgent in April after then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller detailed several instances in which President Trump potentially obstructed justice, …
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Ed Sheeran claimed the top spot on Rolling Stone’s Artists 500, bumping Drake to Number Two for the first time since the chart launched earlier this month. Sheeran ended the week of July 12th through July 18th with 107.8 million song streams, while Drake notched 103 million. After landing at …
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Country radio host Blair Garner describes himself as “not a political guy,” but when Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg reached out and asked for an interview on his show, “The Blair Garner Show,” the host agreed and invited him to his studio in Nashville where they spoke for twenty minutes. …
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In 2017, the Nigerian artist Joeboy released a gliding cover of Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” — a twisty-turny take on the original, where Joeboy slips into double-time cadences during the verses, making the beat seem flat-footed in the process. At the time, Joeboy was unknown and unsigned. But one …
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Bobby Rush has a way with words. At 85, the blues singer writes about the world in a rural American vernacular that has all but disappeared.“If you have a chicken and you’re feeding him, if you take away its food like corn, they squawk,” the “Chicken Heads” singer recently told …
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St. Vincent carries out a surreal smash-and-grab job in the video for “Half Love,” a new song from Red Hearse, the trio of Jack Antonoff, singer Sam Dew and producer Sounwave. The video was directed by Grant Singer and stars St. Vincent’s Annie Clark as a woman who rolls up …
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