Trey Songz was released from police custody after being arrested following what appears to be a physical altercation with a police officer at the Kansas City Chiefs’ AFC championship game in Kansas City, Missouri, Sunday, January 24th. The public information officer for the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the singer’s …
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Dolly Parton has issued an open letter to her fans on the occasion of her 75th birthday. Part personal reflection, part inspirational challenge, Parton’s message, posted on the singer’s website, asks readers to be compassionate. “My wish is that everyone does something a little different today. Let’s call it a …
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Willie Nelson was a young country music and western-swing fan when he heard Frank Sinatra on the radio for the first time. “Though he was a million miles from western swing, he had a sweet swing of his own,” Nelson wrote in his book It’s a Long Story: My Life. …
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Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …
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Republicans are learning the hard way that supporting a president who inspires a violent attempt to overthrow the government has consequences. There are the obvious ones, like the fracturing of the foundation of representative democracy, the adrenaline shot to future right-wing extremist terror, and the growing specter of a new …
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Far-right extremists have been pushing the unfounded conspiracy theory that antifa was behind the attempted coup at the Capitol on Wednesday, a claim that has no evidence to support it. In reality, Donald Trump had been urging his followers for weeks to come protest the counting of the electoral college …
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Wondery has released a new trailer for The Apology Line, an upcoming podcast about a mysterious confessional hotline that popped up in the Eighties and slowly consumed its creator, Allan Bridge. The show will be available to Wondery Plus subscribers January 12th, before hitting Apple Podcasts on January 19th. A …
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Black Pumas performed two tracks from the Album of the Year Grammy-nominated album as part of CBS This Morning’s latest Saturday Sessions. For the virtual gig, the Austin, Texas psychedelic soul duo of singer Eric Burton and guitarist Adrian Quesada — here joined by a full backing band — showcased …
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In the latest episode of Rolling Stone’s The First Time, Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha from the movie Sylvie’s Love kick things off by discussing their initial reading of the script and what drew them to the film. “I just remember listening to all the songs in the script, so …
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Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas sits down with his “personal hero and greatest intellectual (along with elder chieftain Noam Chomsky),” journalist and professor Chris Hedges, on the latest episode of his Rolling Stone interview series, S.O.S. — Earth Is a Mess. The pair spoke during a snowy afternoon at Princeton Battlefield …
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