After the recent arrest and indictment of Maria Butina, the 29-year-old Russian activist who allegedly infiltrated the GOP and NRA via her gun rights group The Right to Bear Arms, many news outlets compared the story to a “spy triller” or episode of FX’s The Americans. Samantha Bee concurred on …
Read More »How Trump and His Team Are Scrambling to Squash the Cohen Tape
It does not appear as though President Trump will be reconciling with his jilted former lawyer-fixer, Michael Cohen, anytime soon. Four days after the New York Times reported that Cohen secretly recorded a conversation he had with Trump regarding payment to bury a story about Trump’s alleged affair with former …
Read More »Blur's Graham Coxon Announces Rare North American Acoustic Tour
Graham Coxon has announced a rare North American solo tour, the Blur guitarist’s first run of concerts on this side of the Atlantic in over a decade. The two-week, 10-date trek – which also mark Coxon’s first acoustic one-man shows in North America – kicks off September 19th in Toronto …
Read More »How Rodney Crowell Reimagined His Musical Past on New Album
In 2017, after Rodney Crowell was diagnosed with dysautonomia, a condition affecting the nervous system, he found himself sidelined for five months, unable to tour. As he came to grips with the limitations caused by his condition, the singer-songwriter plotted his next project, with his manager suggesting an acoustic album …
Read More »Oregon's Weed Glut: What Happens to Excess Pot?
John Plummer, founder and co-owner of Bull Run Craft Cannabis in Boring, Oregon, got his first hint that the state was careening toward a marijuana glut two years ago. In early 2016, his company received one of Oregon’s first few licenses to grow recreational cannabis. In June of that year, …
Read More »Sacha Baron Cohen Used Fake Names, Websites to Dupe Politicians
In the first episode of Sacha Baron Cohen‘s new Showtime seriesWho Is America?, heroped several U.S. politicians into endorsing a program focused on arming children –in some cases, pre-schoolers –with guns and other weapons. And as Politico reports, the show utilized false identities, mock websites and lavish flattery to earn …
Read More »Karen O, Tony Hawk, Patti Smith Set for Pathway to Paris Los Angeles Concert
UPDATE:Jim James, Dhani Harrison, Talib Kweli and Lucinda Williams have been added to this year’s Pathway to Paris lineup next month. *** Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O and skateboarding legend Tony Hawk will join the lineup at the newly announced Pathway to Paris Los Angeles. The concert takes place …
Read More »Why Jim Jordan Denies Knowledge of Sexual Abuse at Ohio State
“Politics has never been a place for sissies,” Jim Jordan told an Ohio sports magazine a few years back. For a quarter-century, since he first won a seat in the state legislature while coaching wrestling at Ohio State, the leader of the House Freedom Caucus has built his entire political …
Read More »Mac Miller Previews New LP 'Swimming' With Coffin-Escaping 'Self Care' Video
Mac Miller contemplates the beauty of “oblivion” on his new song “Self Care.” The spacey, two-part single previews his newly announced album, Swimming, out August 3rd via Warner Bros. Records. “Let’s go back to my crib and play some 45s/ It’s safer there; I know there’s still a war outside,” …
Read More »World Cup: See England Fans Sing Oasis' 'Don't Look Back in Anger' After Loss
England soccer fans consoled their Three Lions club by singing Oasis‘ “Don’t Look Back in Anger” after Croatia beat the national team 2-1 in the World Cup semi-finals, ending their run in the 2018 World Cup. https://youtu.be/JEFXLpuDWZs As The Independent reports, numerous England fans remained inside Moscow, Russia’s Luzhniki Stadium …
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