Lainey Wilson and Jelly Roll are looking like the new faces of country music. Wilson, with nine, and Jelly Roll, with five, led all nominees when the nominations for the 2023 CMA Awards were announced Thursday morning. For Wilson, her multiple nominations cement her status as the genre’s next superstar: …
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Jimmy Buffett’s daughter Delaney penned a touching tribute to her father and thanked Parrotheads for their words of support following his death at the age of 76. “I knew my dad my whole life, but in his final days, I saw who he was: a man whose spirit could not …
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Brian Dunne’s Loser on the Ropes is one of the sleeper albums of the year, a collection of melodic yet punky dissertations on finding the perseverance to grow old — if not up. “The Kids Are All Grown,” about facing your inner child, is a standout, but its sharp arrangement …
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Five years ago today, the world lost Mac Miller at 26. Five years ago Wednesday, I lost my brother Christian at 21. In 2018, I worked for another outlet, and I learned about Mac passing while checking Slack in an attempt to briefly take my mind off the motorcycle accident …
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Recently, I Googled a keyword associated with the media coverage of Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas, the millennial power couple who recently announced they were ending their four-and-a-half-year marriage on Instagram following weeks of speculation. There was a story attributing the split to the couple’s “very different lifestyles,” with a …
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Danny Masterson was sentenced Thursday to 30 years to life in prison after being found guilty in May of two counts of forcible rape. The That ’70s Show actor faced 30 years in prison on the two convictions, the verdict of which came in the second rape trial against Masterson …
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Over Labor Day weekend, a podcaster and minor TikTok influencer named Julia Mazur posted a video describing what her Saturday morning looked like for her as a single, child-free 29-year-old woman. After going to a Beyoncé concert the night before, she recounted, she woke up slightly hungover and stayed in …
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One of the downright hilarious comedy films of the year so far is Bottoms, filmmaker Emma Seligman’s teen sex romp about a pair of lesbian high school pals, PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri), who have never done the deed — and are desperate to. PJ and Josie have …
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On Tuesday morning, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced that a state grand jury had indicted 61 people allegedly connected to the Defend the Atlanta Forest movement, slapping a serious and shocking slate of RICO charges onto a decentralized movement that has sought to derail the construction of a massive …
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J uly 19, 2003: It’s well after midnight in San Francisco, and the Exploding Hearts — Adam Cox, Terry Six, Matt Fitzgerald, and Jeremy Gage —are ready to play for a packed house at a bar called Thee Parkside. The show is a “last-minute thing,” Six, the band’s guitarist, remembers. …
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