Singer-songwriter and Grand Ole Opry member Hal Ketchum, who had numerous hits throughout the Nineties including “Small Town Saturday Night,” “Hearts Are Gonna Roll” and “Sure Love,” has retired from performing after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. In a Facebook post from the musician’s wife Andrea, she noted, …
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Thin Lizzy‘s songs typically addressed badass rock & roll topics like bar fights, jailbreaks and medieval battles. But on Black Rose: A Rock Legend — their ninth LP, released 40 years ago today — the band paid tribute to their Irish homeland with a highly unusual and weirdly touching album-closing …
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Before she reimagined herself as an authorial queen of outsized pop anthems, Sia made her name back in the early ‘00s singing on blunted downtempo jams like Zero 7’s “Destiny” (forever watching porn in her hotel dressing gown), then made it again on her parched, purring, brink-of-a-bad-trip solo ballad “Breathe …
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New Zealand singer-songwriter Aldous Harding delivers a mesmerizing performance against the unreal backdrop of the Cliffs of Dover in England in the new video for “Fixture Picture.” Co-directed by Harding and Jack Whiteley, the clip opens with a long, slow zoom on the musician as she sits in a field, …
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A mong Dallas’ elite at the upscale restaurant Javier’s Gourmet Mexicano, Gabe Reed charms, dazzles and exudes confidence. He drops rock legends’ names that would mesmerize any 1980s hair-metal child. As the founder of Gabe Reed Productions, he could easily be mistaken for one of the rock gods that fans …
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Neil Young and Crazy Horse are going to enter the studio in the near future and record their first new album since 2012’s Psychedelic Pill. Young confirmed the news on his Neil Young Archives website in a response to a reader’s letter asking about his future recording plans. “Crazy Horse …
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A trio of teenagers from New York state have successfully drafted former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel into the 2020 primary. The anti-war octogenarian famous for helping put the Pentagon papers in the public record made his debut with a campaign video underscoring the liabilities of other Democratic candidates and highlighting …
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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned, according to a Sunday evening tweet by President Donald Trump. At the same time, the president announced that Kevin McAleenan, the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, will become Acting Secretary of Homeland Security. Nielsen, who has been secretary since December 2017, presided …
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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band had been on the road for well over a year when the Born In The USA tour wrapped up with a four-night stand at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in late September 1985. Springsteen was at the absolute pinnacle of his success after …
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Alec Baldwin isn’t sure whether he’ll continue to play Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live when the current season ends. The actor appeared on The Tonight Show and told Jimmy Fallon that he’s open to returning next season. “I really don’t know,” Baldwin said in response to his future impersonation …
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