Paul L. Vasquez, the burly but big-hearted nature lover who became an internet sensation in 2010 after posting his awe-struck reaction to a double rainbow, died Saturday in Central California, The Modesto Bee reports. A cause of death has yet to be announced, although in recent weeks Vasquez had been …
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Mick Jagger paid tribute to rock pioneer Little Richard Saturday following news of the icon’s death. “I’m so saddened to hear about the passing of Little Richard,” Mick Jagger wrote in a statement, “he was the biggest inspiration of my early teens and his music still has the same raw …
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ABC will air Taylor Swift‘s City of Lover Concert on May 17th. The one-hour special was announced on Good Morning America on Friday. Swift’s new special will air after the season finale of American Idol that evening. It was filmed last September in Paris at the L’Olympia Theater. The following …
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Willie Nelson celebrates Mother’s Day with “I’m the Only Hell My Mama Ever Raised,” a fiery new single from his upcoming album First Rose of Spring, out July 3rd. Nelson dropped the track accompanied by a lyric video, with lush flowers blooming alongside each rollicking line: “I can tell my …
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Emmett Till was lynched 65 years ago, but it has been only three since Carolyn Bryant Donham admitted that her lie got him killed. She copped to what, I’d wager, most black Americans had already figured when she gave a rare interview to Duke University professor Timothy B. Tyson, who …
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Hop Along singer-songwriter Frances Quinlan performs three songs from her recent solo album,Likewise, from her Philadelphia home for the latest episode ofRolling Stone‘s “In My Room.” Playing simple acoustic renditions of “Now That I’m Back,” “Went to LA,” and “Piltdown Man,” all drawn from the new album, Quinlan shows off …
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As much of America continues to self-quarantine, the propensity to go stir crazy increases with each passing day. Celebrities are no different: bored out of their minds while sitting at home indefinitely. Maybe they are ceaselessly launching Instagram Lives just for some human connection. Maybe they’re teasing us with some …
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Several years before Randy Travis adopted his stage name and changed country-music history, the native of Marshville, North Carolina, was still using his birth name Randy Traywick as the teenaged front man of a bar band called Country Lovin’, which played a regular gig at Charlotte’s Country City U.S.A. in …
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There’s rarely any filler on an Eric Church record. He’s one country songwriter for whom the concept of the album still matters, and he pays as much mind to his deep tracks as he does his singles. As the North Carolina singer celebrates his 43rd birthday on May 3rd, we …
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Madonna said she she plans to take a long drive and “breathe in the COVID-19 air” after saying she tested positive for the coronavirus antibodies in the latest installment of her Quarantine Diary series on Instagram. “Took a test the other day and I found out that I have the …
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