Fyre Festival co-organizer Billy McFarland, who just began his prison sentence, atoned for defrauding hundreds of people.“I am incredibly sorry for my collective actions and will right the wrongs I have delivered to my family, friends, partners, associates and, you, the general public,” McFarland said toPeople. McFarland was found guilty …
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A leading light in L.A.’s country community for years, Sam Morrow leapt onto the national stage with this year’s Concrete and Mud, cracking the Top 10 of the Americana charts along the way. Full of gruff stomp and funky, phased Telecasters, that album forms the bedrock of his conversation with …
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We’ve found the new plot line for the next seasonof the spoof documentary show American Vandal,if there is one. University of Nebraska-Lincoln political science professor Ari Kohen liked a photo on Facebook of a Republican congressman Jeff Fortenberry’s campaign sign that had been altered to put googly eyes on the …
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Dolly Parton‘s newly released “Girl in the Movies,” a song from the forthcoming soundtrack of the Netflix film Dumplin’, is sung from the perspective of the film’s title character. But its lyrics are just as applicable to Parton’s own rags-to-riches fairytale of a life, from a one-room cabin in the …
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Folk singers have been questioning and denouncing metaphorical border walls in song for decades, from Freddy Fender’s 1982 “Across the Borderline” to the Flatlanders’ 2009 “Borderless Love” to Anail Mitchell’s 2010’s “Why We Build the Wall.” Portland singer-songwriter Anna Tivel contributes her own entry to this long tradition on “Fenceline,” …
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Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama have optioned Michael Lewis’ recent nonfiction book, The Fifth Risk, to potentially develop into a series for Netflix, Deadline reports. While it is being reported that the Obamas are exploring possible projects for their Netflix production deal, none of the …
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Arthur Buck,Arthur Buck (New West) For two weeks in September, Arthur Buck — the newly minted duo of singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur and ex-R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck — toured with the songs from their debut album, Arthur Buck, as a quintet with keyboard player Gregg Foreman, drummer Linda Pitmon of Steve …
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Mellow-voiced singer and prolific songwriter Freddie Hart, whose self-penned single “Easy Loving” was one of the biggest crossover hits of the early Seventies, died Saturday in Burbank, California. He was 91. In addition to winning the ACM award for Song of the Year in 1971, “Easy Loving” was a Top …
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In Almost Famous, the 2000 film inspired by Cameron Crowe’s years as a teenage music journalist, one fictional Seventies rocker warns another about talking to a Rolling Stone reporter. “It’s Rolling Stone,” he says. “The magazine that trashed ‘Layla,’ broke up Cream, ripped every album Led Zeppelin ever made!” Rolling …
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Listen to the this week’sYouTube playlist here. The 1975, “Love It If We Made It” Sounds like: A sign o’ the times Perfect for: Scrolling through your social feeds at warp speed Don’t let the bright-neon pop presentation fool you: The 1975’s new single, “Love It If We Made It,” …
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