Charley Pride’s In Person, the first major live album released by a Black country artist, is an unassuming landmark. With a runtime of just under 34 minutes, Pride’s album is shorter than many of the recordings that are cited as among the greatest of all time, including Johnny Cash’s At Folsom Prison and Buck Owens’ Carnegie Hall Concert. But despite its brevity, the album is an invigorating and essential piece of history, a portrait of a pioneering star on the precipice of unprecedented success.Pride’s backing band for the 1969 album included a contingent of Nashville session players, among them Chip Young on rhythm guitar, Jerry…
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In one of the wildest cases of life imitating art, seven people in France have been charged with robbing the set of the Netflix heist series, Lupin, the French news agency AFP reports. The robbery took place Feb. 25 while Lupin was filming in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. Some suspects were detained on March 9, but prosecutors didn’t file charges until today, March 18. The seven suspects, who are aged between 13 and 21, are accused of carrying out an armed robbery as part of an organized gang, as well as receiving stolen goods. It’s believed about 20 people took…
To look back on February 2020 is to see an almost completely different world. Just before the COVID-19 pandemic saw theater closures and release date delays, everything was steaming along. That was also when Billie Eilish released her title track for the 25 James Bond movie, No Time To Die; and if you’re anything like Hans Zimmer, you’d have thought it was the wrong time to drop that particular single. Yet two years after it was sent out into the world, the 007 theme tune still has her fans freaking out, as seen at a recent concert engagement. During her recent…
This installment of Phantom Limbs finds us cutting into the intended third and fourth seasons MTV’s Scream: The TV Series. While the first two seasons of the film series-inspired television slasher followed one particular group of characters whose stories were left unresolved when MTV rebooted the series with the unrelated Scream: Resurrection, the initial plan was for the original cast to continue on through at least two more seasons, culminating in a surprising revelation that out-metas anything seen before in the entire franchise. Joining us for this talk are Michael Gans and Richard Register, the showrunners of Scream Season 2,…
The winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards for the 2021 publishing year were announced on March 17th in a virtual ceremony. The National Book Critics Circle consists of nearly 800 members and was established in 1974 in New York with the goal to honor outstanding writing and foster “… a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature.” The distinguished award is the only in the United States with a deciding committee made of book critics. Awards are granted in six categories to books published in English in the U.S. The categories are: Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, and…
Ready for liftoff? Not quite.As it turns out, Pete Davidson won’t be going to space after all. While the Saturday Night Live star was set for an out of this world flight on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, it appears a date change has caused the comedian to bow out. “Blue Origin’s 20th flight of New Shepard has shifted to Tuesday, March 29,” Blue Origin tweeted on March 17. “Pete Davidson is no longer able to join the NS-20 crew on this mission. We will announce the sixth crew member in the coming days.” While Pete, 28, has yet to publicly address this change in…
Photography by Pam Ten West Photography The epitome of #goals — both on and off the rink. By Megan Kirkwood Date March 17, 2022 Facebook Twitter Sarah Nurse first popped up on most Canadians’ radar (and that of hockey fans worldwide) at the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. It didn’t hurt that she scored the winning goal against Team Canada’s perennial rival, the United States, during their preliminary match-up. Nurse and her teammates would ultimately go on to bring home a silver medal after losing the gold medal game in a tiebreaker shootout with the United States. Even…
Carrie Underwood’s new single “Ghost Story” is a dramatic revenge song, and that’s part of what attracted her to it. Stepping into the studio to sing it, she sealed the deal.”It was just like, ah, this just feels good,” Underwood says, smiling as she talks to Kelleigh Bannen from Today’s Country With Kelleigh Bannen on Apple Music Country.”Ghost Story” drops on Friday (March 18), and next Monday it will become her first solo radio single since “Drinking Alone.” The chord changes and the musicality of the David Garcia-produced track really appealed to her, she says, but mostly she likes it as the first taste…
It is hard for many of us to forget about the infamous The Brat Pack (though the actors involved did not all love the name), a group of teen actors who starred together in many fan-favorite, coming-of-age ’80s films. However, for one actual member of the popular group of films, being a member actually seems to still be a bit of a shock. Actress-turned-professor Ally Sheedy recently spoke out about her time as an eighties icon and how her students waste no time Googling her. Imagine having former Brat Pack actress Ally Sheedy as your college professor? These days, you can…
Despite being released just last year, We Create Stuff’s psychological horror game In Sound Mind is the latest free game available on the Epic Games Store. As is the usual for the Epic Games Store, In Sound Mind will be available to download for free and keep from now until March 24. Released this past September for the PlayStation 5, PC via the EGS and Steam, and the Xbox Series, In Sound Mind places you as therapist Desmond Wales. You must explore your patients’ minds to uncover what links them all together, and find the truth of what’s happened to…
King Princess will release a new full-length, titled Hold On Baby, later this year — and to mark the announcement, the singer has dropped “For My Friends,” an ebullient, hook-laden pop ballad slated to appear on the album. The single follows “Little Bother,” a collaboration with Fousheé released earlier this year. The project of 23-year-old songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mikaela Straus, King Princess first gained acclaim for her 2018 queer anthem, “1950.” Hold On Baby marks the follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2019 debut album, Cheap Queen. Driven by pulsating synth arpeggios and Straus’ delicate, airy vocals, “For My Friends” is…
Love may be blind, but it’s very easy to see these gains. Shayne Jansen revealed the progress he’s made over the last year as he’s changed his fitness journey. “It’s amazing when you prioritize yourself and you look as good as you feel,” the Love Is Blind star wrote on March 17 alongside transformation photos. ”I’ve come a long way in a year and I can finally say I truly love myself.” Co-star Nick Thompson seems to want in on the action and commented on his latest gym photos to quip, “Maybe I should finally agree to workout with you.” Shayne has already teased that some of his…
Photography courtesy of Getty Images Revamping your wardrobe and supporting Muslim designers? It’s a win-win. By Zainab Damji Date March 17, 2022 Facebook Twitter Raise your hand if you’re guilty of always shopping at the same three stores? I know we certainly are. Whether it’s out of convenience, habit or just plain laziness, it’s hard not to return to the comfort of a brand whose pieces already line the walls of our wardrobes. But as we clear out our winter wares and transition into warmer weather, this spring is the perfect time to make new fashion friends from around the…
Tim McGraw’s oldest daughter has caused quite a stir on her social media by spoofing one of her famous father’s album covers.Gracie, 24, took to Instagram to show off a side-by-side of Tim’s Not a Moment Too Soon cover and her own version. Of course, hers involves a little photoshopping, as she’s seen with a clearly-drawn-on handlebar mustache to match dad’s. She’s just missing a signature cowboy hat and oversized button-up shirt!”Like father, like son,” she writes in the caption. Gracie is the oldest daughter of McGraw and Faith Hill’s three girls, with Maggie and Audrey falling in line after.The patriarch of…