Doyle Bramhall II has unveiled his new video for “Everything You Need,” the Eric Clapton-featuring track off the guitarist’s upcoming LP Shades. Bramhall II, the son of renowned Texas musician Doyle Bramhall, has long collaborated with Clapton on the guitar god’s albums, from 2000’s Riding With the King to 2013’s …
Read More »Carlene Carter on Return to Tennessee, New Bluebird Cafe Series
On a pleasantly warm late-September afternoon in Nashville, Carlene Carter leads an informal tour of the charming 100-year-old Queen Anne-style home she shares with her husband, actor Joe Breen. New to the neighborhood since leaving their Santa Ynez, California, home after a decade, it hasn’t taken the couple long to …
Read More »Brett Kavanaugh Instigated Bar Fight After UB40 Concert, Police Report Reveals
British reggae band UB40 have found themselves ensnared in the latest probe into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh‘s collegial drinking habits following a report that Kavanaugh and some Yale classmates were involved in a bar fight following a UB40 concert in September 1985. The New York Times reports that the …
Read More »Eric Idle's Hilarious New Memoir: 14 Things We Learned
As a member of the comedy troupe Monty Python, Eric Idle’s name has been synonymous with British comedy for nearly five decades. It’s a history he’s relived in interviews but never in an official autobiography. A few years ago, when he spoke with Rolling Stone, he joked that he was …
Read More »From Rock Pioneer to Prison: Hear the Story of MC5's Wayne Kramer
In his new book,The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5, and My Life of Impossibilities, MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer has some wild stories to tell: His Detroit band’s improbable journey from polite covers act to noisy rock insurrectionists; his own descent into crime and imprisonment; and his comeback as a …
Read More »Man Stalking The Hold Steady's Craig Finn Surrenders to Police
A mentally ill man who allegedly was obsessed with the Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn turned himself in to Brooklyn police Thursday for violating two restraining orders. Benjamin Campbell, a 35-year-old from Ottawa who lives in Brooklyn, had been charged with stalking Finn in August 2017 when he sent the …
Read More »Watch Neil Young Perform New Love Song 'Eternity'
Neil Young played the first show of his two-night stand at Port Chester New York’s Capitol Theater on Wednesday. Midway through, he broke out a new song called “Eternity.” “The first time we played this we played it on a train,” he said. “We don’t have a train, but we’re …
Read More »Why Legalizing Weed in New Jersey Could Change the Pot Market Worldwide
Legalization is tough: Regulations vary from state to state, county to county, even town to town. And at the end of the day, since marijuana is still federally classified as a Schedule I drug, it’s all basically illegal. But that hasn’t stopped entrepreneurs across the country from diving into the …
Read More »Big Tobacco Is Already Eyeing Pot
According to cannabis industry experts, it’s very likely that the country’s largest tobacco companies will get into the marijuana business, in some way, when it is possible. The question becomes how much control these corporate giants will have over the industry, what they will do to marijuana products and how …
Read More »Prince's Half-Sister Sharon Nelson on His Death, Fentanyl Crisis
Fentanyl, the super-potent opioid, has emerged as the most dangerous new drug in a generation. For many, it wasn’t a household term until Prince died suddenly in April 2016 after taking the drug. But over the past decade, fentanyl was also a factor in the fatal overdoses of several other …
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