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It’s hard to categorize the music that Navy Blue, né Sage Elsesser, makes. Convenience calls for describing it as rap and calling Elsesser, who moonlights as a professional skateboarder, a rapper. He’s part of a growing cohort of musicians who make what’s been dubbed “lo-fi” rap, which seems just as …

While most political pundits are expressing doubt that enough Senate Republicans will grow a spine to convict the president in the coming impeachment trial, one influential GOP strategist, Karl Rove, says if Trump uses Rudy Giuliani to lead his defense, the likelihood of a conviction only rises. When asked on …

Nashville duo the War and Treaty make their Austin City Limits debut this weekend, and deliver a moving, extended rendition of their piano ballad “Take Me In.” “I’ve seen our mothers cry within/From our parents who refuse to call us kin,” the husband-and-wife group’s Michael Trotter sings during the song’s …

We are witnessing, as the World Economic Forum proposes, the “great reset.” Our society is changing with every collective breath we take. The pandemic has given the phrase “this changes everything” a whole new meaning. Whatever your life was before is now different — work, school, shopping, banking, dating, worship …

The catalog acquisition frenzy in the music industry continues to accelerate. Right now, the gorillas in this jungle include Larry Mestel’s Primary Wave and Merck Mercuriadis‘s Hipgnosis Songs Fund, two investment and management firms: in 2021 alone the latter company has acquired copyrights and/or income streams from Neil Young, Lindsey …

Chris Rock talks classic showbiz rivalries with Dave Chappelle and Arsenio Hall in a clip from the new “remix” edition of Rock’s 2018 special,Tamborine, out Tuesday, January 12th. In the clip, Chappelle, Rock, and Hall are sharing their mutual admiration for each other backstage, which prompts Hall to remark that …

Luke Combs is the featured guest on the upcoming episode of The Big Interview With Dan Rather, airing January 13th at 8 p.m. on AXS TV. In a teaser video for their in-depth conversation, the “Better Together” singer opens up to Rather about his longtime struggles with anxiety and how …

For the past 13 years, Saul Loeb, a Washington, D.C.-based staff photographer for the newswire service Agence France-Presse (AFP), has documented events at the White House and on Capitol Hill, in addition to traveling the world covering breaking news. This week, his schedule looked relatively standard — at least for …

It didn’t take long after the MAGA-hat-wearing, Confederate-flag toting rioters were shooed out of the Senate Chamber for their suit-wearing counterparts with congressional pins to take their place and resume the conspiracy-fueled push to overthrow American democracy. When Congress reconvened a little after 8 p.m., eight Republican senators held strong …

While our feet were planted firmly in the U.S. in 2020, largely barred from international travel,streaming data shows us our ears, at least, were wandering the globe. Figures from Alpha Data, the analytics provider behind the Rolling Stone Charts, show that U.S. listeners gravitated more and more toward global genres …