During each night of his solo acoustic tour, John Mayer switches up the setlist. This past weekend during a show in Sacramento, California, the singer and songwriter reached back a decade and performed “Paper Doll” from his 2013 album Paradise Valley. Reflecting on the record’s tone, which has long been …
Read More »NPR Quits Twitter After False 'Government-Funded Media' Tag
NPR will no longer use Twitter, accusing the platform of “taking actions that undermine our credibility by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent,” in a decision announced Wednesday, April 12. The move makes NPR the first major news outlet to stop publishing new content on Twitter; the rule …
Read More »Why Some Taylor Swift Stans Are Ganging Up On 'Gaylors': Report
There’s some bad blood in the Taylor Swift community. According to a new report from social media tracking firm Graphika, the largest harassment in Swift fandom spaces is happening between radical Gaylor and Anti-Gaylor accounts online — and changing fandom interactions for the worse. #Gaylor is a long-running fan theory …
Read More »Paul Simon Plumbs His Dreams for New 'Seven Psalms' Composition
Paul Simon will release a new composition, Seven Psalms, this spring. The seven-movement work, which finds him playing acoustic instruments and drawing lyrical inspiration from King David’s Psalms, came to him one night in a dream in 2019, and it formulated over several more nights between the hours of 3:30 …
Read More »Sammy Hagar and Bob Weir Announce Eighth Annual Benefit Show With Don Was, Nancy Wilson
The eighth annual Acoustic-4-A-Cure benefit concert hosted by Sammy Hagar and Bob Weir will make its return to the Fillmore in San Francisco for the first time in three years on May 13. Hagar and Weir lead the performance lineup for the third time, with additional appearances from Michael Anthony, …
Read More »10 Social Media Strategies to Build Stronger Customer Relationships
Social media has revolutionized the way businesses interact with their customers and followers. Nowadays, it’s not just about selling products or services, but also about building relationships and establishing trust with your audience. This is where an effective social media plan comes in. By implementing the right strategies, businesses can …
Read More »He Brought the Four Seasons Back From the Dead With 'Oh, What a Night.' Few Know His Name
Rolling Stone‘s interview series King for a Day features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and singers who had the difficult job of fronting major rock bands after the departure of an iconic vocalist. Some of them stayed in their bands for years, while others lasted just a few …
Read More »J.D. Vance's 'Big Tech' Plan Conveniently Makes More Money for J.D. Vance: Report
J.D. Vance, the ‘hillbilly’ venture capitalist and now Republican Senator from Ohio, frequently rails against the menace of Big Tech and its alleged bias against conservatives. Less frequent are his discussions about his investments in smaller tech firms — and how his calls to hobble giants such as YouTube could …
Read More »Elon Musk on His Twitter Tenure So Far: 'Were There Many Mistakes? Of Course'
In his first major interview since buying Twitter — and then gutting about 80 percent of its staff — Elon Musk told the BBC that running the social media company has been “quite a stressful situation… not an easy one,” and “quite painful.” Nevertheless, the tech billionaire stood strong on …
Read More »Lindsey Graham Is Now Buddy-Buddy With Saudi Ruler He Called a Murderer
There aren’t many politicians, on either side of the aisle, who have been harder on Mohammed bin Salman than Lindsey Graham. The South Carolina senator squarely blamed the Saudi Arabian crown prince for the 2017 murder of Saudi-born journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi. “He is irrational, he is unhinged, …
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