Police in South Florida have issued an arrest warrant for 22-year-old Robert Allen, who was previously labeled a “person of interest” in the shooting death of rapper XXXTentacion, the Sun-Sentinel reports. Allen’s arrest warrant is not related to the July 18th shooting, but rather probation violations. He was previously charged …
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The elevator pitch for My Morning Jacket, very roughly, has long been the Allman Brothers retooled as Radiohead. So it’s cool that to hear frontman Jim James reverse-engineering his steez on his latest solo LP. A loving tribute to old-school shit spiritually informed by the hippie bible The Whole Earth Catalog, …
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Dave Grohl had a day off in Memphis yesterday, so he dropped by Graceland, which got him thinking about Elvis Presley as just another kid with a guitar trying to deal with “the effect that young stardom can have.” But unlike Presley and certain other tortured souls, Grohl seems built …
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Singer-songwriter David Nail is taking a left turn as the frontman of a new band, the Well Ravens. Trading in the slick production of his Number One country hits “Whatever She’s Got” and “Let It Rain” for more atmospheric rock sounds that wouldn’t be out of place on a late-Nineties …
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Summer’s here, and the time is right for … top-flight popcorn entertainment along with some of the year’s most unexpected indie counter-programming. Check out the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s itty-bittiest defender! Or bask in the glory that is Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, doing his best John McClane (sans one leg to …
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Sheryl Crow condemns Wall Street greed and political corruption on her sleek new song, “Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You,” featuring St. Vincent. “Money is the inside guy at the bank,” Crow rap-sings over a swaggering hip-hop drum groove and palm-muted guitar riff. “Money is the yacht right before it …
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Southern soul pioneer Candi Staton will be releasing her 30th album, Unstoppable, on August 24th. The album, which follows the 2016 gospel-dance collection It’s Time to Be Free, returns Staton to her roots with a mix of original material and covers steeped in her trademark blend of funk, disco, dance-based …
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President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order that allows for families to be detained together at the border while the parents await prosecution. The move was unexpected considering how the administration had spent the past week responding to reports of children being separated from their parents by defiantly maintaining …
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Bruce Springsteen veered from his scripted Broadway one-man-show on Tuesday to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” immigration policy of separating thousands of children from their parents. The singer-songwriter is eight months into his Tony Award-winning residency at New York’s Walter Kerr Theatre, but he broke the normal format to critique …
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The Mountain Goats fulfilled a long-standing promise to write a song for wrestler Sasha Banks and the result is a charming, guitar-driven rocker. “Song for Sasha Banks” finds frontman John Darnielle recounting Banks’ journey from watching Chris Jericho on television as a child to seeing her name on a marquee. …
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