Kyle Daniel has been weaving his high-and-mighty pot singalong “A Friend With Weed” into his live shows for the past few months, but the song received its more official debut on Friday night in Nashville, just in time for 420. Delivering a tight 45-minute set of brawny country-rock as the …
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When Norwegian black-metal firebrands Immortal ousted their frontman, Abbath, four years ago and pledged to carry on singing their odes to the icy, imaginary realm of Blashyrkh with only their drummer and lyricist running things, it seemed like a joke. Then they released Northern Chaos Gods last year and the …
Read More »Canadian Weed Company Canopy Growth to Buy U.S. Firm Acreage After Legalization
Canopy Growth, the Canadian cannabis conglomerate, which owns a variety of marijuana brands and companies, has struck a deal to purchase the U.S.-based cannabis firm, Acreage Holdings, for $3.4 billion on the condition that marijuana becomes federally legalized in the United States, CNBC reports. Canopy is reportedly paying Acreage $300 …
Read More »Former Weather Underground Member, 69, Granted Parole
A woman who served as the getaway driver for the radical organization the Weather Underground has been granted parole after serving a 37-year prison sentence. On Wednesday, the New York state parole board granted early release to Judith Clark, 69, who was arrested in 1981 after driving the getaway car …
Read More »Watch Jade Bird Perform 'I Get No Joy' on 'Fallon'
U.K. singer-songwriter Jade Bird hit the stage at The Tonight Show to perform her acoustic rock single “I Get No Joy.” The lively performance of track, which comes off Bird’s self-titled debut album, underscored its message of trying to remember to enjoy the moment. In the clip, Bird sings and …
Read More »Watch Blood Orange Cover Neil Young's 'Heart of Gold' at Coachella
Blood Orange‘s Devonté Hynes kicked off his Sunday set at Coachella 2019 with a cover of Neil Young‘s “Heart of Gold.” The singer crooned the song, a highlight from 1972’s Harvest, over jagged acoustic strums. He offered a touch of melisma to the folk-rock track, with two backing vocalists — …
Read More »'Game of Thrones' Season Premiere Recap: The Return of the King
Winter is here, and it’s taking us deeper into the world of Game of Thrones than ever before … in the opening credits, anyway. For its final season, HBO’s era-defining fantasy saga has given the famous clockwork map that accompanies Ramin Djawadi’s unmistakable opening theme a complete makeover. Instead of …
Read More »Pete Buttigieg Is Fighting, and Winning, a Battle Over Religion With Mike Pence
Pete Buttigieg is scheduled to officially announce his candidacy for president this weekend. The 37-year-old South Bend, Indiana, mayor has been steadily climbing in the polls — and in our 2020 Democratic candidate leaderboard — since announcing in January that he was forming a committee to explore his chances of …
Read More »Flashback: Elton John Hits Number One With 'Bennie and the Jets'
Forty-five years ago this week, Elton took “Bennie and the Jets” to Number One on the Hot 100. And all this time later, we still know precious little about the fictional rock band at the center of the song other than the fact that lead singer Bennie has electric boots …
Read More »'Hellboy' Review: A Superhero Reboot Restaged as Its Own Bloody Hell
Once upon a time, after Tim Burton let his freak bat-signal fly but before every cape came with a free cinematic universe, superhero movies were a grungy, pulpy business. Go back and watch the ’90s stuff, like Blade or Spawn or The Crow. There was something kind of grindhouse-ish about …
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