Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham denied the existence of systemic racism in America and used the elections of former President Barack Obama and current Vice President Kamala Harris as his “proof.” In an interview on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace showed the senator a video clip of President …
Read More »Frank Zappa's Final U.S. Concert in 1988 Set for First-Ever Release
Frank Zappa’s final U.S. concert — a March 25th, 1988 gig at New York’s Nassau Coliseum — is the next archival release from the Zappa Trust and UMe. Zappa ’88: The Last U.S. Show, due out June 18th, marks the first-ever posthumous release of a live album from the guitar …
Read More »Damian Marley Honors Earth Day With 'Life Is a Circle'
Damian Marley celebrates Earth Day with the new song “Life Is a Circle,” featuring a video telling the segregated history of Miami’s Virginia Key Beach Park. Directed by B+, the clip sees Marley standing on the historic beach as title cards and footage explain its history: Black Americans were not …
Read More »Keith Urban and Breland Are All Kinetic Energy in the Video for 'Out the Cage'
Keith Urban‘s latest album, 2020’s The Speed of Now Part 1, opens with a true banger. “Out the Cage,” written by Urban with Sam Sumser, Sean Small, and Breland, is a fast-paced dance number that evokes the best of Nineties electronica. It also excels because of its guest stars: Breland …
Read More »Jim Morrison Book of Collected Writings Coming This Summer
A book of Jim Morrison’s collected writings will be published by Genesis, the publishing house announced on Tuesday. A Guide to the Labyrinth: The Collected Works of Jim Morrison marks the 50th anniversary of the release of the Doors’ album L.A. Woman and of Morrison’s death in 1971, and will …
Read More »Is Snoop Dogg's Triller Fight Club the New Wave of Sports Entertainment?
ATLANTA – Triller Fight Club is looking to change the game when it comes to sports entertainment. Saturday’s sophomore event was the continuation of a vision that appears willing to pull out all the stops for success. “When you say Coachella, it’s not just music — it’s the experience of …
Read More »Charlie Worsham Won't Be Stopped in New Song 'Fist Through This Town'
Some days it feels like we’re all just barely getting by. Charlie Worsham knows the feeling all too well and perfectly captures it in his new song “Fist Through This Town.” It’s Worsham’s first new music since 2017’s criminally overlooked Beginning of Things, and it’s not hard to imagine how …
Read More »Could Psilocybin Be as Effective as Antidepressants?
Over the past few years, there has been an emerging body of evidence that psylocybin, or the active compound in magic mushrooms, could serve as a potentially effective treatment for major depressive disorder. On Wednesday, the New England Journal of Medicine added to that body of research with a small …
Read More »NFT Sales Raise $200,000 for Independent Music Venues
The National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) has announced a second round of NFT fundraising for independent venues in partnership with Goldflyer, after raising over $200,000 in NFT sales earlier this month. NFT marketplace Nifty Gateway will be releasing a follow-up drop on Friday, April 16th at 1:30 p.m. ET. Tove …
Read More »Now Is Our Last Best Chance to Confront the Climate Crisis
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. The Earth’s climate has always been a work in progress. In the 4.5 billion years the planet has been spinning around the sun, ice ages have come and gone, interrupted by epochs …
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