“Every Little Honky Tonk Bar” is the latest track to be unveiled from country icon George Strait’s forthcoming album. A zesty, twang-filled song, it opens the new LP titled Honky Tonk Time Machine. It’s also a superb throwback to some of the Country Music Hall of Fame member’s most lively …
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“Did you see that hug Cardi gave me?” Ken Ehrlich says, beaming. Ehrlich — 76 years old yet dashing back and forth all day between run-throughs for the 61st Grammy Awards at Los Angeles’ Staples Center and rehearsals for a separate Motown tribute show in an adjacent building — has …
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The 61st annual Grammy Awards take place this Sunday night and if you’re looking to watch the show online, we’ve found a couple of ways to live stream the action. Kendrick Lamar leads the pack for the 2019 Grammys, with eight nominations, including Record of the Year and Song of …
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Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band — which features Colin Hay, Steve Lukather, Gregg Rolie and Hamish Stuart — will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band with a string of tour dates.Here in our exclusive video, the Beatles drummer giddily remembers joining the Beatles, buying his mother a …
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President Trump usually insults people of color in one of two ways, and I’m never sure which I prefer. He either ignores us, or he scapegoats us. In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, Trump and his speechwriters managed to do both successfully. The president omitted any mention …
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Stephen Colbert dissected and demolished President Trump’s State of the Union during The Late Show‘s post-address live episode. The host spent 16 minutes cracking punchlines about Trump’s economic boasts, illegal immigration rhetoric and thinly veined threats to Democrats about “ridiculous partisan investigations.” “This was not a particularly great speech,” Colbert …
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The chorus of prominent liberals and progressives demanding the resignation of Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is resounding. Last Friday, images circulated from Northam’s 1984 medical school yearbook page showing two people in racist garb, one in blackface and the other in a Klansman costume. After initially apologizing for the image, …
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Ten years ago, Steve Earle took a break from recording original material to make Townes, a tribute to his longtime friend and colleague Townes Van Zandt. To Earle, Van Zandt was his Bob Dylan — or his “Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg,” alongside Guy Clark, whom Earle knew since the Seventies …
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Beirutmusic sounds like the fuzzy memory of a wedding involving distant relatives, where you were swept up in folk dances and traditional drinking games, and which left you, through your hangover haze, convinced that these kin live richer, more soulful lives than your own — and if you could just …
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George Strait will release his 30th studio album, titled Honky Tonk Time Machine, on March 29th. Its arrival ends an uncommonly long gap in output for the famously consistent Country Music Hall of Fame member, whose previous full-length album Cold Beer Conversation came out in 2015. To coincide with the …
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