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1 week ago |
allmusic.com | Zac Johnson
It's not our usual beat to commemorate the loss of a sports figure on AllMusic, but Jim Irsay, the owner & CEO of the NFL's Indianapolis Colts, seemed more like a rocker at heart. Many team owners with more money than they know what to do with often spend their fortunes on race cars, sports memorabilia, real estate, and divorces, but Irsay had a passion for collecting guitars, artifacts from history, and objects of pop culture fascination.
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1 month ago |
allmusic.com | Zac Johnson
Space, the funky frontier. In the recent season of the Star Wars Disney+ series Andor, the usually quiet and reserved senator Mon Mothma literally let her hair down and cut loose on the dance floor. What was the cause? Celebrating her daughter's marriage? Escaping from the horrors of funding an underground rebellion? A few too many Chandrilan Squigs?
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2 months ago |
allmusic.com | Zac Johnson
For decades, the country music being played on the radio has maintained the well-travelled backroads of pickup trucks, cans of beer, old dogs and cheating hearts. Bubbling under these platinum-selling artists are a subtler, more literary set of musicians usually tagged under the less marketable but more austere subgenre of Contemporary Folk or the Grammy-friendly category of Americana. For every Big & Rich there is a Rhiannon Giddens, and crossing over every Florida Georgia Line is a Nickel Creek.
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Oct 21, 2024 |
allmusic.com | Zac Johnson
In constructing the mammoth "Cocaine & Rhinestones: A History of George Jones and Tammy Wynette," author and Nashville gadabout Tyler Mahan Coe has effectively Voltroned together three separate books. At it's core, the book details the bizarre, romantic, heartbreaking and gawkable trainwreck that was the separate ascendencies and eventual catastrophic relationship between country music superlatives George Jones and Tammy Wynette.
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Aug 12, 2024 |
allmusic.com | Zac Johnson
The 50th anniversary of Pussy Cats is upon us. This was the posthumous name given to the doomed and bewildering project between singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson and no-description-required John Lennon in which they drank, pulled pranks, generally goofed off, and tried to record an album on which Nilsson sang so hard he fried his voice to the point where blood was hitting the microphones.
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