The countdown clock on Woodstock 50’s website continues to subtract days, minutes, and hours until August 16th, when the festival would ostensibly kick off. In recent weeks, its harried organizers have been denied permits four times in Vernon, New York, where they attempted to move the beleaguered fest from its …
Read More »Hear the Highwomen Cover Fleetwood Mac's 'The Chain'
Update [8/2]: On Friday, the Highwomen released their full version of Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain,” a song they recorded for the soundtrack to the upcoming film The Kitchen. After making their official introduction last week with the track “Redesigning Women,” the Highwomen have now put their spin on a four-part …
Read More »Taylor Swift Brings Spectacle, Avoids Controversy at Amazon Music Concert
In the 1950s, an iconoclastic quantum scientist and mathematician named Hugh Everett developed the many-worlds theory, a controversial idea that would lay the groundwork for a canon of alternate universe sci-fi detailing parallel dimensions. Everett’s work focused on the splits in the universe caused by measuring quantum objects, but became …
Read More »Stevie Wonder to Receive Kidney Transplant in September
Stevie Wonder revealed during his London concert Saturday that he would undergo kidney surgery in September. “So what’s gonna happen is this, I’m going to have surgery, I’m going to have a kidney transplant in September of this year. I’m all good, I’m all good, I’m all good. I have …
Read More »Nas Gathers Unreleased Tracks for Long-Awaited 'Lost Tapes 2'
Nas will collect unreleased tracks from his last four albums on his long-awaited new compilation, The Lost Tapes 2, out July 19th via Mass Appeal and Def Jam. The 16-track set will feature songs made during the sessions for 2006’s Hip-Hop is Dead, 2008’s Untitled, 2012’s Life Is Good and …
Read More »Trump Is Demanding Tanks for His 4th of July Freedom Extravaganza
The “Salute to America” extravaganza on the National Mall this July 4th is poised to be one of the gaudiest, most over-the-top displays of jingoism in American history. President Trump wouldn’t have it any other way. According to the Washington Post, Trump has “demonstrated an unusual level of interest” in …
Read More »Michael Lang: Woodstock 50's Permit Rules 'Drawn Up by People Who Didn't Know Anything About This Business'
If all had been going to plan, Michael Lang, co-creator of the original Woodstock and main organizer of the upcoming Woodstock 50 festival, would have been putting the finishing touches on a three-day concert that is now 52 days away and counting. Instead, the beleaguered commemoration of the 1969 landmark …
Read More »Elliot Roberts, Longtime Neil Young Manager, Dead at 76
Elliot Roberts, who managed the careers of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Tom Petty and many classic-rock legends, died Friday at the age of 76. A cause of death has not been revealed. “It is with a heavy heart that we can confirm the passing of Elliot Roberts. No further details …
Read More »Another U.S. Tourist Has Died In the Dominican Republic
In the midst of U.S. tourists panicking over the recent spate of mysterious deaths in the Dominican Republic, as well as intense speculation over the cause of the deaths, another American tourist has been found dead in a Dominican Republic hotel. Joseph Allen, 55, was found dead early Thursday in …
Read More »The Shadow Cabinet: How a Group of Powerful Business Leaders Drove Trump's Agenda
Listen to an audio version of this story below: It could have been an episode of The Apprentice. On a summer day in 2016, a group of businessmen and women descended on Trump Tower in Manhattan. They exited their black SUVs and rode the golden elevators to the 26th floor, …
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