In a clip posted today, ex-Tallahassee mayor and former Democratic nominee for Florida governor Andrew Gillum spoke openly about his sexuality with Tamron Hall on the debut of Season 2 of her nationally syndicated talkshow, informing the host that he identifies as bisexual. “You didn’t ask the question, you put …
Read More »See Flaming Lips Perform 'God and the Policeman' on 'Fallon'
Flaming Lips celebrated the release of American Head Friday by reentering their plastic bubbles to perform their new album’s “God and the Policeman” on The Tonight Show. While the American Head version of “God and the Policeman” features Kacey Musgraves, the singer is absent on the Fallon rendition. Throughout the …
Read More »Tanya Tucker Covers Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash on New Live Album
Last October, Tanya Tucker performed a thrilling, sold-out show at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. Next month, the country singer will release a live document of the concert on its one-year anniversary. Live From the Troubadour arrives October 16th via Fantasy Records. Tucker announced the album on Friday with the …
Read More »Hear Mort Garson's Alternative Take of 'Ode to an African Violet' From 'Plantasia'
As Sacred Bones Records gears up to reissue four Mort Garson albums this fall, the label has shared “Ode to an African Violet,” an alternative take from 1976’s Mother Earth’s Plantasia. Plantasia was an integral part of the plant music genre of the Seventies, made entirely on a Moog synthesizer …
Read More »The Most Republican of Republican Lawyers Just Called Out Trump's Lies on Voter Fraud
WASHINGTON —Clearly, Ben Ginsberg has had enough. A former journalist turned election lawyer, Ginsberg spent the past four decades in the trenches of Republican politics and campaigns. He represented the Republican National Committee. He was George W. Bush’s lawyer during the 2000 recount battle, once appearing on all five Sunday …
Read More »The Pogues Announce Box Set of Classic BBC Live Recordings
Between 1984 and 1986, the Pogues released some of their best material: their 1984 debut Red Roses for Me and Rum Sodomy & the Lash, produced by Elvis Costello, which combined punk, traditional Irish music and classic rock. A new box set, The Pogues: The BBC Sessions 1984 – 1986, …
Read More »How Jimmy Carter (Literally) Rocked the Presidency
One of the hallways in Dickey Betts’ home in Osprey, Florida, displays all the mementoes you’d expect to find associated with a former Allman Brothers guitarist, singer and renegade: awards for best-selling albums, photographs of now-deceased bandmates, a vintage guitar or two. But two framed letters, both from 1975, practically …
Read More »India Ramey Has Apocalyptic Visions on New Album 'Shallow Graves'
Some weeks after the 2016 presidential election, Nashville singer-songwriter India Ramey was wrestling with the still-fresh outcome and writing songs, when an image came to mind that provided an appropriately unsettling tone to what she was feeling. “A lot of times when I write a song, I visualize it as …
Read More »22 Times Trump Told America the Coronavirus Would Go Away
In recent days, the president and White House staff have pushed the concept of “herd immunity” — the notion that once a critical mass of Americans catch the coronavirus it will have fewer vulnerable targets to infect, and will slow or stop its spread. That achieving any sort of herd …
Read More »'The Boys in the Band': See Zachary Quinto, Jim Parsons, Matt Bomer, Andrew Rannells Spit Gay Wit in New Trailer
When Mart Crowley’s 1968 play The Boys in the Band came to Broadway in 2018, it made history. For the first time, the production — directed by Tony-winner Joe Mantello — featured only openly gay actors. The production won a Tony for Best Revival of a Play in 2019 and …
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