Nominees for the 61st Grammy Awards were announced on Friday morning, with Maren Morris, Kacey Musgraves and Brandi Carlile each earning three nominations within the genre-specific country and Americana categories. Morris earned Best Country Group/Duo and Best Country Song nods for “Dear Hate,” her topical collaboration with Vince Gill, as …
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Things haven’t been going so well between the United States and Russia, and it looks like a 30-year-old disarmament treaty between the two nations could be coming to an end. In 1987, the United States and the Soviet Union signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty (INF), a pact prohibiting the …
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NBC’s afterlife comedy The Good Place has been renewed for a fourth season. The critically-acclaimed show premiered in 2016 and tells the story of four humans and one demon learning how to be good with a mix of ethical philosophy and copious puns. Parks and Recreation mastermind Mike Schur created …
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The Global Citizen Festival came to Johannesburg, South Africa on Sunday to honor Nelson Mandela on the 100th anniversary of his birth. The anti-poverty show featured a keynote address by Oprah Winfrey and performances by Beyonce, Jay-Z, Pharrell Williams, Chris Martin, Eddie Vedder, D’banj, Femi Kuti and Sho Madjozi. “Let’s …
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A track off her 2007 albumSongs of Mass Destruction, “Sing” was inspired by Annie Lennox’s first meeting with South African activistZackie Achmat at Nelson Mandela’s 46664 HIV/AIDS campaign in 2003. HIV positive himself, Achmat co-founded the Treatment Action Campaign, an organization that fights for AIDS treatment access and prevention. “We …
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Marvel‘s Runaways live up to the series’ name with the group of superpower-wielding teenagers breaking free from their supervillain parents’ homes. The new trailer for the second season opens on the kids running for their lives, with a dinosaur in tow. As their parents, who belong to a secret evil …
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In January 1990, a couple of months shy of his 41st birthday, Nick Lowe welcomed a BBC film crew into his suburban London row house for an interview. Lowe had a new album to promote, Party of One, but he’d been in the music business for two decades, first in …
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UPDATE: The lateMac Miller‘s recently released Spotify Singles will now be available on limited edition 7-inch vinyl that will benefit the Mac Miller Circles Fund, which provides programming, resources and services to youth in underserved communities. The blue vinyl is available exclusively via Spotify Fans First program. ••• Mac Miller …
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Dierks Bentley, Chris Janson, Rascal Flatts and Eddie Montgomery will all perform at “C’Ya on the Flip Side,” a concert event benefitting the Troy Gentry Foundation set for January 9th at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry House. Blake Shelton and Storme Warren, of SiriusXM’s the Highway, will co-host. Dustin Lynch, Jon …
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The Federal Election Commission (FEC) formally dismissed complaints it received against Kid Rock after the rocker teased a Michigan senate run. In a ruling released this week, the FEC determined Rock did not appear “to have taken even the most basic steps to become a candidate.” In 2017, Rock hinted …
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