While the world waits patiently for the much-anticipated return of the Dixie Chicks, a new trio — or at least a temporary one — is here with a version of the classic Chicks hit “Wide Open Spaces” to fill that harmonious void. Little Big Town‘s Kimberly Schlapman and Karen Fairchild, …
Read More »'Honeyland': To Bee or Not to Bee
A woman walks down a dusty, sunbaked road. She hikes along a mountain ridge, prying a small, flat slab from the craggy wall with a small steel tool. When she removes it, you can hear the buzzing of bees filling the soundtrack. This is her secret honey stash; she will …
Read More »The Inexplicable Disrespect for Big Sean Is at an All-Time High
It’s difficult to fathom how much misery one has to have in their heart to hate Big Sean. Hating on rappers is often a beautiful and cathartic exercise, but part of the fair exchange should be rooted in said rapper being oblivious or obnoxious enough to warrant vitriol. It’s what …
Read More »What To Expect From Robert Mueller's Testimony Before Congress
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller will testify before the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees on Wednesday. Outside of the brief public statement he delivered in May, it will be the first time Mueller has appeared publicly since taking the helm of the investigation into the Trump campaign’s relationship with Russia, …
Read More »How Y2k and bbno$ Turned 'Lalala' Into a Hit, One Tinder Match at a Time
“Did I really just forget that melody?” That’s the self-effacing first line in Y2K and bbno$’s frivolous hit “Lalala,” which shot to the top of Spotify’s Viral 50 on July 1st and has remained in the Top 5 all month. It’s bragging, tongue-in-cheek nonsense-rap with a touch of drugged-out nursery …
Read More »Watch Red Hearse Make TV Debut with 'Half Love' on 'Fallon'
Red Hearse — the new trio of Bleachers frontman Jack Antonoff, singer Sam Dew and producer Sounwave — created an intimate setting befitting the confessional, romantic vibe of their new single, “Half Love,” during their performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Monday. The track is expected to appear …
Read More »Stephen Miller's Attempt to Gaslight Fox News Audience on Trump's Racism Goes Nowhere
Stephen Miller, a senior White House policy adviser and chief speechwriter, who was likely gleefully tasked with defending President Donald Trump’s most recent racist remarks, was a guest on Fox News Sunday. But host Chris Wallace was determined not to make things easy for the administration’s chief architect of brutally …
Read More »What Do We Want From 'The Lion King' and Disney's Live-Action Remakes?
You remember the opening. Of course you do. For a generation of kids who grew up watching the film in theaters or on DVD, it’s damn near iconic. The sun rises above the African savanna. The chant begins: “Naaaaa-nts ingonyama bagithi Baba.” Antelopes look up from their munching; meerkats spring …
Read More »Remembering Johnny Clegg's Powerful Mission
This story originally ran in Issue 632, published on June 11th, 1992. As a storyteller, every journalist strives for wholeness and symmetry, for a narrative that after all its circumnavigation returns to the beginning, as if to say, “Here, enclosed, is an entire world.” In both the subject and the …
Read More »See Rhonda Vincent Depict a Relationship on the Rocks in 'Like I Could' Video
With a vintage country-bluegrass voice that beautifully captures both the toughest and most tender aspects of love gone wrong, singer Rhonda Vincent’s just-released single and video, “Like I Could,” painfully charts the disintegration of a seemingly once-perfect relationship. Co-written by Grand Ole Opry legend Jeannie Seely with Bobby Tomberlin (Diamond …
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