Randy Lanier walks alone and unnoticed through the Homestead-Miami Speedway. The racetrack is quiet. The grandstands are empty. The infield is deserted but for a huddled clutch of millennials and a husky Floridian wearing a view to a grill T-shirt. Next to the garages, Lanier greets a young man named …
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One night before a gunman opened fire and killed 58 at the Route 91 Harvest festival on October 1st, Maren Morris played her own set, filling the Las Vegas Strip with the sounds of a country singer who’s never been afraid to challenge her genre’s boundaries. On Sunday, during a …
Read More »Watch Kali Uchis' Wild New Video With Tyler, the Creator, Bootsy Collins
Kali Uchis unveiled a surreal new video for the song “After the Storm,” featuring Tyler, the Creator and Bootsy Collins. Director Nadia Lee Cohen builds a strange suburban world that pairs with the song’s woozy funk. The video opens with Uchis sitting at a kitchen table alone, listlesslyscribbling a grocery …
Read More »Philadelphia Wants to Be First U.S. City to Open Safe Injection Sites
Though Seattle has already set aside a budget for safe injection sites, Philadelphia city officials announced Tuesday that it is pushing to become the first U.S. city to open supervised drug-injection sites to combat its rampant opioid overdose epidemic. Safe-injection sites, also called safe-consumption sites, are centers where people can …
Read More »Hear Maren Morris Sing on Vibrant New Zedd Song 'The Middle'
After a few days of teasing the track online, EDM artist Zedd has released his new collaboration with Maren Morris and electronic duo Grey, “The Middle.” The song is an infectious earworm that finds Morris straying from her country roots. A synth-heavy verse gives way to a Nineties R&B-indebted, vocoder-driven …
Read More »Belle and Sebastian Plot North American Tour
Belle and Sebastian extended their 2018 tour with a series of North American tour dates. The newly announced leg – which spans the U.S., Mexico and Canada – kicks off June 5th in Portland, Maine and concludes June 30th in Portland, Oregon. Openers for the North American dates include Snail …
Read More »Joel McHale Preps New Netflix Comedy Series
Community star and former host ofThe Soup,Joel McHale, will return to topical, satirical comedy with his new Netflix series, The Joel McHale Show. The weekly, half-hour show – which launches globally on Sunday, February 18th – will feature sketches, celebrity guest spots and video clips spanning TV, sports, politics and …
Read More »Hear Yo La Tengo Preview Upcoming Album With Four New Songs
Veteran indie outfitYo La Tengo unveiled four new songs from their upcoming album, There’s a Riot Going On, out March 16th via Matador. The album is available to pre-order,with new tracks “You Are Here,” “Shades of Blue,” “She May, She Might” and “Out of the Pool” available to hear now. …
Read More »Stephen Stills Teams Up With Neil Young For Autism Benefit
Stephen Stills‘ autism awareness benefit concert Light Up The Blues is returning this year with a packed lineup of performers and a new, bigger venue.Neil Young, Sheryl Crow, Burt Bacharch, Judy Collins, Chris Stills, Jack Black, Christina Applegate will join Stills. The event’s house band will feature guitarist Mike Campbell, …
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The Vikingsentered the divisional round of the playoffs as the home team and the favorite, which didn’t quite seem fitting for a team well past its days of megastar offensive players like Randy Moss, Daunte Culpepper, and Adrian Peterson. By the last play of the game though, Minnesota had managed …
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