Brothers Osborne released their long-awaited sophomore LP Port Saint Joe on Friday, a freewheeling, captivating record that features blistering guitar fireworks from John Osborne, as on lead single “Shoot Me Straight.” But the LP also includes its share of moving ballads, like the jazzy, soulful love song “A Little Bit …
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This is part of our user’s guide to legal marijuana across America. In these strange and uncertain times, the only self-care better than getting stoned is getting stoned and having an adventure. Now that weed is officially legal in California for anyone over the age of 21, a wondrous cornucopia …
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Jack Johnson is apparently not so great at playing poker, at least not while smoking pot with a country legend. In his new song, “Willie Got Me Stoned,” Johnson recounts a true story where he ended up too broke to take a cab home after a night hanging out with …
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These days, pot growers don’t share the tricks of the trade like they used to. A decade or two back, marijuana cultivators would log onto forums and flip through the pages of High Times for tips on how to coax that good-good out of a simple seed. Weed’s illegality formed …
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Most of us have failed to deliver a good comeback right when we needed it. Few of us ever get the chance to deliver that belated coup de grace in the form of a book, as James Comey has. Kicking off his publicity tour Sunday night in advance of Tuesday’s …
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Arcade Fire added to their string of location-specific, guest-featuring live cover songs in London Friday night by having Florence and the Machine‘s Florence Welch join the band for “Dog Days Are Over.” The singer was demonstrably ecstatic about the surprise appearance, standing atop a monitor and demanding that the crowd …
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Nicki Minaj released two new songs, “Barbie Tingz” and “Chun-Li,” on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 radio show Thursday.Minaj co-produced both songs, partnering with Chevy Music on “Barbie Tingz” and J. Reid on “Chun-Li.” “Barbie Tingz” finds Minaj flowing aggressively over sparse, rattling percussion and gooey synths. In the opening verse, …
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YouTube will livestream an array of performances from the first weekend of Coachella, including sets from headliners the Weeknd and Beyoncé. Coachella will take place April 13th through 15th in Indio, California. This marks the eighth year YouTube has broadcast the festival. Among the other artists whose performances will be …
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System of a Down announced a five-date run starting October 13th in San Bernardino, California through October 19th in Las Vegas, Nevada. The alt-metal quartet last performed in the U.S. during their 2015 “Wake Up the Souls” tour, which commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Their final American …
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When Cardi B teams up with SZA to announce, “I think us bad bitches is a gift from God,” hearing is believing. The Bronx queen’s long-awaited debut Invasion of Privacy is even better than everybody was hoping it would be, a whirwind tour of Planet Cardi, a place where female …
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