Tool will release their long-awaited new album, August 30th, per a video posted on the band’s Twitter. According to Blabbermouth, the clip appeared on social media not long after the band flashed “August 30th” on the big screen at their show in Birmingham, Alabama Tuesday night. Frontman Maynard James Keenan …
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Don McLean will no longer receive a lifetime achievement award from a UCLA student group after it learned that the singer-songwriter had pleaded guilty to domestic violence charges in 2016, the Portland Press Herald reports. Last Friday, the Student Alumni Association of UCLA announced they were presenting McLean with the …
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President Donald Trump has his eyes on 2020. Like many of the Democrats who have declared their intention to oppose him, he’s even weighed in on reparations. Kind of. On Sunday, Trump retweeted a frightening idea from prominent evangelical Jerry Falwell Jr. “After the best week ever for @realDonaldTrump — …
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Moby claims that he once rubbed his penis on Donald Trump at a party before he became president, and in an appearance on Real Time With Bill Maher Friday, the Play artist spoke about the alleged incident, which he revealed in his new memoir Then It Fell Apart. “There was …
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Game of Thrones composer Ramin Djawadi released a stand-alone nine-minute version of “The Night King,” which appears in the third episode of the series’ eighth and final season. The arrangement opens with a tranquil piano theme that gradually swells to incorporate sawing strings, including a haunting counterpoint melody around the …
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Little Big Town will return to host the annual CMT Music Awards for its 2019 edition, marking the second consecutive year of hosting for the quartet behind “The Daughters.” The fan-voted show takes place Wednesday, June 5th, at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. Nominations for the CMT Music Awards will be revealed …
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Kansas City indie-rock artist Kevin Morby is a secular guy with a spiritual side, and on his fifth LP he thinks deep (and sometimes somewhat less deep) about the nature of religious devotion, tapping a rich lineage of transcendentally-minded musical history. The title track is a rollicking piano number that …
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Excerpted from “FALTER: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?” by Bill McKibben. Published by Henry Holt and Company April 16th 2019. Copyright © 2019 by Bill McKibben. All rights reserved. Oh, it could get very bad. In 2015, a study in the Journal of Mathematical Biology pointed …
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Morgan Wallen performs a reverent cover of Jason Isbell’s “Cover Me Up,” Lucette goes for retro Wall-of-Sound glory with “Angel” and Little Big Town make a powerful plea on behalf of women in “The Daughters” in this week’s group of must-hear songs. Justin Klump, “The Other Side” “I’ll keep holding …
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There isn’t an official calendar, but for most people, Coachella marks the start of festival season and the kickoff to six months of music, art and dancing that spans multiple genres, artists and locations. This year’s Coachella lineup features headliners Ariana Grande, Childish Gambino and Tame Impala, along with performers …
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