A day after the premiere of its highly-anticipated third season, the Stranger Things 3 soundtrack has dropped via Legacy Recordings. The non-original soundtrack oozes in Eighties circa-1985 nostalgia with tracks like Madonna‘s “Material Girl,” REO Speedwagon’s “Can’t Fight This Feeling” and “Workin’ for a Livin’” by Huey Lewis & the …
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President Trump’s entire political career has been built on deception, from criminal efforts to cover up his alleged affairs, all the way down to his campaign’s advertising. The latest example comes by way of Facebook commercials featuring an array of attractive, racially diverse people professing their love for the president. …
Read More »Pentagon Warns That America Is Enabling Putin's Plan for Global Dominance
Donald Trump is a fan of Vladimir Putin. The president praised him effusively during the 2016 campaign, when a deal was in the works to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, and has continued to praise him while in office. Though the U.S. intelligence community has concluded that Russia interfered …
Read More »Hear Mickey Guyton Pledge Solidarity in New Song 'Sister'
“I know it’s hard being strong/And not getting lost in a man’s world,” sings Mickey Guyton in the opening line of her new song “Sister.” A soaring anthem of solidarity and support, “Sister” comes from a fertile period of songwriting for Guyton, who co-wrote the song with Nathan Spicer and …
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It’s a few minutes after gates have opened for day one of Chicago’s LakeShake Festival and Rachel Wammack is sitting backstage surrounded by small trailers: ones for Lindsay Ell, Cassadee Pope, Lauren Alaina, Maren Morris and a shared one for Miranda Lambert and the Pistol Annies. This is an unusual …
Read More »Major Lazer, Anitta Throw Summer Bash in 'Make It Hot' Video
Anitta and the members of Major Lazer don their best leopard-print outfits and throw a huge summer party in the new video for “Make It Hot.” Directed by Jovan Todorovic, the clip takes the dancehall influence of the Spanish-language song and puts it in its natural habitat: The tropics. Major …
Read More »See Billy Strings, Marcus King's Allman Brothers Tribute at DelFest 2019
Billy Strings and Marcus King, two of jam, blues and bluegrass music’s most potent players, teamed up at last May’s DelFest to pay tribute to the Allman Brothers Band with a vicious take on “Midnight Rider.” Strings does his best Gregg Allman growl as lead vocalist and also adds an …
Read More »Dave Bartholomew, Songwriter and Fats Domino Collaborator, Dead at 100
Dave Bartholomew, the New Orleans musician, Fats Domino collaborator and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee who co-wrote the R&B classic “Ain’t That a Shame,” has died at the age of 100. Bartholomew died Sunday at a New Orleans-area hospital, his son Dave Bartholomew Jr. confirmed to the Associated …
Read More »Facebook Reverses Ban on Led Zeppelin's 'Houses of the Holy' Cover Art
Facebook has reversed its decision that saw Led Zeppelin‘s Houses of the Holy album cover temporarily banned from the social network. The ban of the iconic and controversial artwork, conceived by Hipgnosis’ Aubrey Powell and featuring naked children scaling a mountain, began earlier this week when music website Ultimate Classic …
Read More »How Phoebe Bridgers Inspired Lewis Capaldi to Cover Billie Eilish
Lewis Capaldi is no casual Billie Eilish fan. The Scottish singer-songwriter likened her sound to “being punched in the face in the best fucking way possible … Like being assaulted by a big marshmallow man!” Capaldi first heard “When the Party’s Over” when it was released on Spotify last fall …
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