Fair or not, the Chicks’ career remains synonymous to some with Natalie Maines’ 2003 statements against President George W. Bush and the subsequent country radio backlash that curbed a Music City success story. Some former fans still cop a “shut up and sing” attitude; others, regardless of their own political beliefs, respect the First Amendment
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For twenty-two years, the beloved quartet Animal Collective (though sometimes as only a trio or duo) have made songs about wonder: vibrant fantasies built on dream logic. It’s music of wide-eyed affection, wrapped in intricate psychedelic textures. The songs are usually about little things, like fruit or grass, and composed with a childlike synthesis of
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The new art exhibit “Tupac Shakur: Wake Me When I’m Free” makes it clear he didn’t drop his lifelong ideological convictions after becoming a gangsta rapper.  By Paul Thompson February 10, 2022 Tupac Shakur backstage after his performance at the Regal Theater in Chicago in March 1994. Raymond Boyd / Getty Images On November 30, 1994,
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For the week starting Feb. 10, 1979, Eddie Rabbitt hit No. 1 on the charts with “Every Which Way But Loose.” Co-written by Steve Dorff, Snuff Garrett and Milton Brown, the mid-tempo, pedal steel-adorned song stars a protagonist who can’t shake the memory of someone from his head. In fact, the narrator of “Every Which Way
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Empath have been conjuring some breathless combination of beauty and chaos since the very beginning. The band was formed when drummer Garrett Koloski and keyboardist Emily Shanahan left Syracuse, New York and moved into a communal punk house in Philadelphia with vocalist Catherine Elicson, and the trio started jamming in the basement as soon as
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In March, Shudder will spotlight the bold, visionary horror emerging from France in the twenty-first century, including essential titles from the boundary-pushing wave of films dubbed “New French Extremity.” That includes Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury‘s Livid, previously unavailable on streaming in the U.S. Livid follows Lucy (Chloé Coulloud), a young woman training to become an at-home
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Director: Keith Thomas Producers: Jason Blum, Akiva Goldsman Cast: Zac Efron, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Sydney Lemmon, Kurtwood Smith, John Beasley, Michael Greyeyes and Gloria Reuben In a new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic thriller from the producers of The Invisible Man, a girl with extraordinary pyrokinetic powers fights to protect her family and herself from sinister
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The classic story The Most Dangerous Game has been turned into countless different movies over the years, most recently Blumhouse’s The Hunt, and it sounds like Lionsgate’s Escape the Field is cut from a similar cloth. Announced by Deadline this afternoon, Escape the Field has been picked up by Lionsgate for a planned “multi-platform release”
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Thirty-six years ago today (Feb. 10, 1986), the Highwayman record was certified gold, for sales of 500,000 units. The album, released in May of 1985, was recorded by country superstars Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings, collectively known as the Highwaymen. The Highwaymen formed in 1985 to release the album Highwayman, which features
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Just as President Biden’s top medical adviser Anthony Fauci is declaring that the U.S. is exiting “the full-blown pandemic phase” of Covid-19, three studios are hoping to lure out adult audiences, especially women who’ve been slow to return to cinemas. Further curbing Sunday business is the Super Bowl, but if older moviegoers are determined to
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The Doggfather isn’t just back home, he’s running things. By Grant Rindner February 9, 2022 Snoop Dogg performs at Rupp Arena on November 20, 2021 in Lexington, Kentucky.Courtesy of Stephen J. Cohen/Getty Images. Snoop Dogg has been a pillar of pop culture for so long that he seems far removed from his origins at this
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