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This is what happens when 11 family members and a nutty-eyebrowed son-in-law running for Congress stop being polite and start getting real on a sketchily funded junket across the United States. The Great American Road Trip released all six episodes Wednesday on YouTube after many delays. It tells the heartwarming story of U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, his wife Rachel Campos-Duffy, and their nine children, three boys and six girls, as they travel across the country celebrating the nation’s 250th birthday. Camera crews are not new to Sean and Rachel. The two met, as star-crossed lovers often do, on Road…
Fans have paid tribute following news that former Queen bassist Barry Mitchell has died. The news was shared on Facebook earlier this week by Greg Brooks, the band’s official archivist. “Terribly sad news just received that early Queen bass player (circa 1970), Barry Mitchell, has passed away,” the post read. “His anecdotes at the convention were fascinating and offered rare insight. He will be greatly missed.” Mitchell was the second bassist in the band, joining after the departure of founding member Mike Grose. He stayed in the band between August 1970 and January 1971 – two years before their breakthrough…
“This is a classic rock & roll tale,” Mike Montali, singer of the Queens rock & roll band Hollis Brown, says. “A guitarist with a big ego and a lead singer with a probably bigger ego can’t get on the same page and it takes one of the other band members to kind of facilitate it.” In this case, it was Hollis Brown’s drummer Andy Zehnal who helped facilitate a truce between Montali and founding guitarist Jonathan Bonilla. It seems to have worked. On Friday, the group released their first new music since their acrimonious breakup in 2023. Titled “Garage…
Octo Octa and Eris Drew are creative and life partners who’ve, somehow, never put out a proper album together. That changes come October 18, when the duo will release their self-titled LP as Alchemical Sisters via Interdimensional Transmissions. Check out the cover art and tracklist below.To record Alchemical Sisters, Octo Octa and Eris drew converted the bedroom of their New Hampshire cabin into a home studio. In press materials, they describe the project as “psychedelic chaos, acid rollers, and big beat, channeled through hardware instruments and animated by love, touch, rhythm, and spiritual fire.”Octo Octa’s Maya Bouldry-Morrison shared her own…
The second season of Laverne & Shirley had just gone into production when Cindy “Shirley” Williams came down with viral pneumonia, forcing producers of the hit ABC sitcom to shut down production for two weeks. “You can bet Cindy received posies from The Fonz since she’s been hospitalized,” reads a report by Shirley Eder that ran in the Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph on July 22, 1976, conflating the fantasy world of the Happy Days extended universe with reality in a very odd way. “I don’t know about a romance, but they have been good friends for years.” With that important update…
Turnstile have “reimagined” last year’s Never Enough with an incredible array of guests, ranging from Elton John to Slayyyter and Panda Bear. Never Enough: Versions, out next Friday, August 28, also features a genre-spanning cadre of producers, singer-songwriters, rappers, and assorted pop and alternative powerhouses such as Four Tet, Oklou, Alex G, Hayley Williams, A. G. Cook, Blood Orange, Nourished by Time, Julien Baker, Floating Points, and Mustafa.No tracklist has yet been revealed, and how exactly the contributors will come together remains to be seen. Completing the guest list are Faye Webster, Dying Fetus, Angel Du$t, Shabaka, Chanel Beads, Dan…
This reporting was supported by the Pulitzer Center and the United Nations Foundation. E leven days after the patient developed a fever and eight days after his legs went limp, a very specific alarm bell went off. It was July 2022 in upstate New York. The case had been mysterious: The young man had no history of immune problems, nor any other suspicious medical problems. His symptoms had transformed from a stomach bug to a bad stomach bug to something that looked a lot like meningitis. It was one of those trajectories that would turn out either to be a…
Jamie T made his return to the live stage last night (August 20) with a last-minute, intimate gig at London’s Scala before announcing a full-scale 2026 UK tour. See what went down and tour details below. The show was announced last week, with fans reporting tickets selling out in minutes. It marked the musician’s first live performance in almost exactly two years, following a 2024 set at Portsmouth’s Victorious Festival. As Jamie T – full name Jamie Treays – walked out on stage with his band at 8.30pm, he was greeted with chants from the audience of “Jamie, Jamie, Jamie fucking…
On Chris Stewart’s latest album as Black Marble, the Brooklyn producer handles vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass, drum programming, synths, windchimes, tambourine, and piano. Unsurprisingly, an artist who does so much of it themselves has a thought or too about the evolution and atomization of the underground music scene, and Life in Small Spaces tackles working in the music industry with a healthy mix of realism and hope. “When I looked up to see a new artist on a billboard, I started to wonder, will I one day have to pretend to be something I’m not, in order to…
My Vitriol are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their debut album ‘Finelines’ with a headline show at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Find all the details below. The gig will be their biggest in over two decades, their last being their headline performance at London Astoria in 2005. It marks 25 years since the release of their cult debut album ‘Finelines’, which was awarded three stars from NME at the time, and hailed by our readers as an “album perfect from start to finish“. They’ll take to the stage on Thursday December 10, with InMe and Yourcodenameis:milo joining as support acts. Tickets go…
