Over the decades, Carlos Santana has collaborated with jazz legends (Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter), rock guitarists (Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan), blues greats (Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker), R&B singers (Smokey Robinson, Lauryn Hill), and even country artists (Willie Nelson, Faith Hill). The results were sometimes worldwide hits like “Smooth” …
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Months after suffering a stroke and a coma, Matt Pinfield reports that he’s on the road to recovery. “Guys, I’m alive,” the radio host and former VJ told The Hollywood Reporter. “I’m recovering and am going to come back swinging. I was unresponsive for two months. Friends were thinking they …
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For nearly three years, Dawn Robinson, who formerly performed with En Vogue, has been living in her car. Six months after her last YouTube post, the singer returned to her channel this week to explain her experience navigating her recent living conditions and why she wants to be seen as …
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Ahead of Sean Combs’ arraignment on two superseding indictments Friday, federal prosecutors and Combs’ defense attorneys are proposing vastly different timelines for a jury selection as both parties gear up for the May trial. The government is seeking to start jury selection on Monday, April 21, with the hope the …
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It’s early evening in Asheville, North Carolina, and Sierra Hull, the singer, songwriter, and mandolin virtuoso, is standing in Studio A on the third floor of the Citizen Vinyl record-pressing plant in downtown. Although the room is filled with state-of-the-art recording equipment, the space itself is sacred ground: In 1939, …
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In late January, all of Mexico’s TikTok For You Page came across a video of Macario Martinez, dressed in his fluorescent yellow street cleaner uniform riding through CDMX. “Life asks for a lot and I’m just a street sweeper that wants you to listen to his music,” read his caption …
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Living in the Catskills for six years has made Hannah Cohen an expert at mushroom foraging. In the several acres of woods that surround her mid-Seventies house, she’ll encounter golden oysters, chicken-of-the-woods, indigo milk caps, black trumpets, and maitake (she takes home 30 pounds worth of the latter every year). …
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Brooks & Dunn has postponed a concert at the United Supermarkets Arena following an explosion at Texas Tech University. On Thursday, the band reposted a Texas Tech statement confirming that their Thursday show would be postponed to March 20 after the campus was on alert the night prior. “Brooks & …
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The whole premise of the Troggs’ 1966 hit “Wild Thing” is about this socially disaffected guy, benumbed to sympathy, empathy, and even his own ego — utterly skeptical of any personal joy, a real Freudian basket case — until he experiences a sexual awakening so subtle that he questions his …
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Soulja Boy, the Grammy-nominated rapper, appeared in a California courtroom Thursday for the first day of his civil trial involving allegations he beat and raped a woman while she was working as his personal assistant for nearly two years, ending in late 2020. The “Crank That” artist, whose real name …
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