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 »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 …
Read More »'We Are Who We Are' Marches to Its Own Beat
“I used to be a lot of things,” Army wife Jenny (Faith Alabi) admits. “Then I stopped being a lot of things. Truth is, I don’t know who I am anymore.” Jenny’s dilemma is one that applies to every character in We Are Who We Are, a lyrical coming-of-age drama …
Read More »Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh Says He Nearly Died From Covid-19
Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh spent 18 days at L.A.’s Cedar-Sinai hospital battling Covid-19 in June, he revealed in a harrowing interview with the Los Angeles Times. Mothersbaugh thinks he may have contracted the virus in late May while working near strangers at Mutato, his music production company. He dismissed early …
Read More »ABC to Air 'Black Panther,' Chadwick Boseman Tribute Special Tonight
Marvel Studios and ABC will celebrate the life of Chadwick Boseman Sunday night, August 30th, with the network television debut of Black Panther followed by a tribute special to the late actor. Black Panther will air commercial-free on the network beginning at 8 p.m., with the blockbuster immediately followed by …
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