Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that he will introduce a proposal that would finally legalize marijuana in New York state. “I’m announcing a proposal to legalize cannabis and create an equitable adult-use cannabis program in NYS,” Cuomo tweeted Wednesday. “This program will generate much-needed revenue, while allowing us to support …
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If the pandemic hadn’t happened, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band would be gearing up for a huge world tour right now. Still, he’s primed to be busy in 2021. “I have some projects coming up this year that I won’t tell, because it’s gonna be a secret and …
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Bad Bunny enlists former wrestler and current WWE commentator Booker T for the new video for “Booker T,” a track off the Puerto Rican reggaeton star’s recent LP El Último Tour del Mundo. The visual for the track — which features a sample of Booker T’s “Can you dig it …
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With New Year’s Eve arriving amid a global pandemic, an unprecedented number of (responsible) revelers will likely spend the last moments of 2020 social distanced and indoors. Thankfully, television networks and streamers have loaded up on big-name December 31st entertainment to help ease the transition into 2021. Dick Clark’s New …
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House Democrats, with little help from Republicans, voted to raise the amount of the coronavirus relief stimulus checks to $2,000. But, although the president says he supports an increase from the $600 already allotted in the relief bill that he finally signed into law on Sunday, the new legislation’s chances …
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If the music business were allowed to write its own history, every year’s chronicle would glow with variations on the same theme — the words “transformation,” “revolution,” and “record-breaking sea change” chief among the lexicon — ad nauseam. But in the peculiar shadow of 2020, these bombastic end-of-year appraisals, for …
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K.T. Oslin, the first female songwriter to win the CMA Award for Song of the Year, for her 1987 hit “80’s Ladies,” died Monday at 78. Oslin had been battling Parkinson’s disease and was diagnosed with Covid-19 last week, according to her friend, the journalist Robert K. Oermann, who confirmed …
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Eric Clapton and Van Morrison have collaborated on the anti-lockdown song “Stand and Deliver,” the latest in a string of “Save Live Music” tracks penned by the Irish singer-songwriter. “Stand and deliver / You let them put the fear on you / Stand and deliver / But not a word …
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President-elect Joe Biden will choose Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) to be Secretary of the Interior, the Washington Post reported. If nominated and confirmed, Haaland, a member of Pueblo of Laguna, would be the first Native American to lead the department, which is charged with protecting America’s natural resources as well …
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In Rolling Stone‘s series At Work, we go behind the curtain with decision-makers across the fast-changing music business — exploring a range of responsibilities, burgeoning ideas, advice for industry newcomers, and more. Read earlier interviews here. Behind almost every hit song is a team of unstoppable writers. And in 2020, …
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