Before packing up their acoustic guitars and making the 2,000-mile move to Nashville, Fairground Saints played their earliest shows in California. Formed in Santa Barbara, the trio carved out a sound that nodded to their homeland’s rich musical past, from the layered harmonies echoing throughout the hills of Laurel Canyon …
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“God, Kimmy, ” Jacqueline White scolds the title character of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.“As stupid as this is, there are real feelings at stake here.” In the moment, Jacquline (Jane Krakowski) is describing the emotional affair Kimmy (Ellie Kemper) is having with the parents of her new boyfriend, whom she otherwise …
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It’s pretty obvious why so many people immediately inhaled both Hulu’s Fyre Fraud and Netflix’s Fyre as soon as they could. The very public dissolution of Fyre Fest was one of the most satisfying things about 2017: Trump had just taken office, the bad guys were winning, and watching influencers …
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A judge slapped R. Kelly‘s Chicago recording studio with 66 building code violations on Tuesday, totaling a potential $66,000 per day, and ordered that the studio — a space that the singer has turned into illegal living quarters, complete with kitchen, bar room and sauna — no longer be used …
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Pink, Muse and Chris Stapleton will be performing during Grammy week at Los Angeles, California’s Hollywood Palladium for Citi Sound Vault. Presented by Citi and Live Nation, the series of intimate concerts run February 7th through the 10th and tickets are exclusively available to Citi cardmembers. Pink, whose Beautiful Trauma …
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A diverse array of artists from Miley Cyrus to Metallica honored the memory of Chris Cornell at the I Am the Highway tribute concert in Los Angeles last week. While the show was appropriately heavy on rock artists, it also highlighted two of country and Americana’s most powerful vocalists: Chris …
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Sigrid offered another preview of her debut album with the pick-me-up of a new single “Don’t Feel Like Crying.” Sucker Punch will be released on March 8th. The upbeat “Don’t Feel Like Crying” has the 22-year-old singer giving herself a pep talk, proclaiming that instead of wallowing in sadness, she’s going to …
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A review of “Chidi Sees the Time-Knife,” this week’s The Good Place, coming up just as soon as I describe the plot of the Entourage movie to William Shakespeare … And so here we are, right back where it all started. Sort of. Other episodes this season (“Janet(s)” in particular) …
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Leo “Bud” Welch didn’t reach a wide audience until near the end of his life, and now the late blues singer will add one last LP in March with the help of Dan Auerbach. Titled The Angels in Heaven Done Signed My Name, the new album features the scuzzy electric …
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Depeche Mode, Moby, New Order and Einstürzende Neubauten are among the artists who are performing composer John Cage’s famously tacit work, 4’33” on a new compilation. The avant-garde composer issued the work in 1952, confounding critics and musicians alike for decades by making the sound of the room the piece …
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