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In a year of stellar documentaries (Won’t You Be My Neighbor, RBG, McQueen), Minding the Gap takes its place with the cream of the crop. In his debut feature, filmmaker Bing Liu started with 12 years of footage that he shot in his hometown of Rockford, Illinois, to trace the …

The Allman Brothers Band recorded “Blue Sky” in September 1971, one month before guitarist Duane Allman took a joyride through the streets of Macon, Georgia, and suffered a fatal crash on his motorcycle. Nearly 50 years later, solo artists Devon Allman and Duane Betts — the sons of fellow Allman …

There’s no better therapy for an artist like Luke Combs than to pick up his guitar and play, which is exactly what he does in the new video for his heartbreak power ballad “She Got the Best of Me,” the latest single to be released from his expanded This One’s …

Elle King plays a charismatic cult leader in the flashy music video for her new song “Shame,” the lead single from an upcoming album. Blinged out in a fur coat and gold jewelry, the cane-wielding “Ex’s and Oh’s” singer luxuriates in a palm tree-laden mansion in the “Shame” video, directed …

In his ambitious two-part documentary, Play, Dave Grohl overdubs multiple instruments into a 23-minute, instrumental prog-rock odyssey. The project opens with the Foo Fighters leader reflecting on the sheer childlike joy of picking up an instrument. “To any musician, young or old, a beautiful studio full of instrumentslike a playground,” …

Dawn Landes made a deliberate choice about what kind of music she hoped to make when she approached Monument Records founder Fred Foster about producing her new album. Even so, Landes still had to prove her artistic worth to the 86-year-old Country Music Hall of Fame member, who had mostly …

ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA —The old man scowled across the courtroom. “Let’s get to the heart of the matter.” “We’ve been at the heart of —” the younger man, a lawyer, interjected. “Just listen to me!” the old man said. The lawyer stared at the floor. The room went silent. The fifth …

OnLast Week Tonight, John Oliver talked about the highly influential role of prosecutors play in court cases.“‘Prosecutors will decide’: It’s one of those three-word phrases that you hear so often you don’t even think about what it means anymore, like ‘User Agreement Update’ or ‘Some Restrictions Apply’ or ‘Tyler Perry …

Danielle Bradbery and Thomas Rhett team up on the wistful new duet “Goodbye Summer,” an updated version of Bradbery’s solo tune “Hello Summer.” It’s a deceptive title, implying blue skies and tan lines along with every other popular country cliché. While those things do hover in the background, the story …

ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA — This was his life now. Paul J. Manafort Jr. took his seat in Room 900 of the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, just before 9 a.m. Tuesday. The disgraced political influence-peddler and former chairman of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign wore a dark suit and said …