Katie Crutchfield recently read a diary entry from when she was 17 years old. “It was actually really sad,” she says. “I talked about how I wanted to quit drinking, and that was so long ago.” It’s 11 a.m., but Crutchfield, who performs under the name Waxahatchee, is still in …
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John Legend, Meek Mill, and DJ Khaled will lead a tribute to the late rapper Nipsey Hussle at the 62nd Grammy Awards. The performance will also feature gospel star Kirk Franklin and two of Nipsey’s Southern California hip-hop successors: Roddy Ricch and YG. Along with the tribute, Nipsey Hussle is …
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David Olney, the Americana singer and songwriter whose poetic often intricate writing style made an impact on Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt, and Emmylou Harris, died Saturday from an apparent heart attack following a performance at the 30A Songwriters Festival in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. He was 71. Olney’s publicist …
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Matt Healy of the 1975 appeared on Matt Wilkinson’s Beats 1 radio show on Friday, and while the full interview won’t air until next week (January 24th), Apple has shared snippets from their chat, where Healy confirmed that the band won’t be playing Glastonbury this year. “No, we’re not going …
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Adam Sandler and Uncut Gems filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie have reunited for a new short film, Goldman v Silverman, about a turf war between two street performers. The six-minute project recaptures some of the gritty, frenetic New York aesthetic that defined Uncut Gems, although here it’s used in a …
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Black Pumas were thrown into a whirlwind a few months ago when their debut album, Black Pumas, was nominated for a Best New Artist Grammy. But it’s not the first time the Austin psych-soul duo’s guitarist, producer, and co-songwriter Adrian Quesada has had to cope with show-biz craziness: There was …
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Three weeks out from the Iowa caucuses, six candidates dutifully assembled in Des Moines Tuesday night for the final debate before voting begins. With polls showing a virtual dead heat in Iowa, the stakes were high and the spotlights bright. But the questions? The questions were mystifyingly inane. No questions …
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Soccer Mommy, a.k.a. Nashville indie rocker Sophie Allison, has announced her new album Color Theory, out February 28th on Loma Vista. She’s also shared a new single, “Circle the Drain,” following previously released tracks “Lucy” and “Yellow Is the Color of Her Eyes.” “I wanna be calm like the soft …
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One week before Thanksgiving, Melany Centeno, a professional dancer with a decade of experience, posted a call-to-arms on Instagram. Centeno enjoyed the rapper DaBaby‘s new “Bop” video, calling it “super fire.” But after messaging colleagues who danced in the clip, she accused DaBaby of underpaying some of them — as …
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According to two separate reports this week, President Donald Trump may have had the impeachment process on his mind when giving the go-ahead for the drone strike that assassinated Iranian military and intelligence official Qasem Soleimani last week. On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported: “Mr. Trump, after the strike, …
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