Hozier announced a headlining North American tour for spring 2019. The 26-date trek launches March 10th in Buffalo, New York and wraps April 14th in Spokane, Washington. General public tickets go on sale starting Friday, December 14th at 10 a.m. local time. Each online purchase will include a CD copy …
Read More »Trailers of the Week: 'Avengers 4,' 'GoT' Final Season Teaser, 'Captain Marvel'
This week, three major 2019 releases gave us a taste of what’s to come: We finally got a look at the last Avengers movie (or at least the last one with the original line-up); another MCU property dropped a longer, juicier trailer; and HBO’s monster-hit showed us a chilly version …
Read More »Butthole Surfers Talk New Book: 'I Regret Not Regretting a Thing'
Why would Butthole Surfers want to make a coffee table book to recount their history? Frontman Gibby Haynes’ answer is typically bizarre: “We’re all history buffs. We drink coffee. We like tables. Personally, I’m a big fan of the Cherner oval dining table. And the book wasn’t our idea.” The …
Read More »Hear the Steel Woods' Roaring Cover of Tom Petty's 'Southern Accents'
The Steel Woods pay tribute to their roots — both geographically and musically — with a new cover of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ “Southern Accents.” Released on next year’s Old News, “Southern Accents” turns Petty’s 1985 original into a Southern rock power ballad. The bridge, which the Heartbreakers treated …
Read More »'Surviving R. Kelly' Screening Canceled After Gun Threat
A private screening of Lifetime’s upcoming R. Kelly docu-series, Surviving R. Kelly, was canceled and evacuated in New York after a gun threat was called into the venue Tuesday night, Rolling Stone has learned. “At tonight’s premiere of Lifetime’s documentary series Surviving R. Kelly at NeueHouse Madison Square, several anonymous …
Read More »Jay Inslee Believes a Climate Candidate (Like Himself?) Can Beat Trump in 2020
WASHINGTON —On November 7th, the morning after the 2018 midterm elections, Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee sat in a hotel in the other Washington, the swampy one, red-eyed from a string of late-night TV appearances, picking at a plate of eggs and rehashing the huge night his party just had, …
Read More »Michael Cohen Admits He Was in 'Regular Contact' with Trump Team When He Lied to Congress
In a court filing late Friday night made by his attorneys, Michael Cohen, President Donald J. Trump’s former personal attorney, admitted he was in “close and regular contact” with Trump’s legal team and the White House when he lied to Congress in 2017 about the then-presidential candidate’s plans for a …
Read More »Hear Blake Shelton's Tense Cover of Eddie Rabbitt's 'Every Which Way but Loose'
Blake Shelton has added a new entry in his “Friends and Heroes” series, releasing an appropriately anxious cover of Eddie Rabbitt’s 1979 hit “Every Which Way but Loose.” It joins Shelton’s recent covers of Bobby Bare’s “Tequila Sheila” and George Jones’ “The King Is Gone.” The Voice coach plays it …
Read More »Reggae Added to UNESCO's 'Intangible Cultural Heritage' List
UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, has added reggae to its list of cultural institutions worthy of protection and preservation, the BBC reports. Each year, UNESCO adds to its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and Jamaica submitted reggae for consideration earlier this year. …
Read More »See Kacey Musgraves' Acoustic 'High Horse' at the Opry
“Don’t be scared,” Kacey Musgraves says to the Grand Ole Opry audience in a new video, just as her band launches into the disco-tinged tune “High Horse.” It’s half in jest, because Musgraves and her band — spread out across the front of the Opry stage — give the most danceable …
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