Did Madonna Really Get Her Start With a Late-1970s Punk Band? … from the American Songwriter Lauren Boisvert
Madonna is known as the Queen of Pop, but her 1970s New York punk origins may come as a surprise to the uninformed. The post…
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U.S. Is Only Country To See Tourism Decline In 2025 … from Crooks & Liars Ed Scarce
Trump’s policies will cost the United States upwards of $29 billion in lost tourism revenue, according to a new study. Great job, voters. Source: Forbes…
Mike’s Blog Round-Up … from Crooks & Liars Tengrain
Above, Big Pig performs, Breakaway. I think we would all like to breakaway from our bogus timeline, amirite? Just Security says that statelessness hangs like…
Firefighters From Mexico Help Rescue And Recover Teams In Texas … from Crooks & Liars Conover Kennard
Let’s play a game called ‘Remember This?’ Back when western North Carolina towns were rattled, and some were destroyed by Hurricane Helene, Donald J. Trump…
Tearful Alex Jones Condemns Trump Over Epstein Story … from Crooks & Liars Susie Madrak
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones broke down in tears in a video of himself reacting to a new Trump administration memo about Jeffrey Epstein, asserting that…
Worsening Climate Change Driving Spread Of Lyme Disease … from Crooks & Liars Susie Madrak
Emergency rooms across the country are seeing a spike in tick bite cases, according to new data from the CDC. Via ABC News: July has…
Richard Mille’s Latest Luxury Watch Honors The Le Mans Classic … from Maxim Beau Hayhoe
The demands of the most grueling race in motorsports are best faced head-on, and with the right watch. So it’s only natural that the Richard…
“The audience got on my side when I came out with this broken guitar… it started life as a Baby Taylor but got stepped on and snapped”: He’s been called the UK’s “best, most humane songwriter” but a broken acoustic is the secret to Richard Dawson’s sound … from Guitarworld
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“You gotta quit at the right moment, and Gary did the worst thing any band member can do. I was angry, man”: Scott Gorham on how his guitar partnership with Gary Moore came to a dramatic end – and building bridges with the late guitar hero decades later … from Guitarworld
The Belfast-born virtuoso brought blues-rock fireworks to Thin Lizzy’s sound and a muscular foil for Gorham who was always trying something different Read More
“I gave up trying to be a great guitar player. I have enough to get by in the studio, I got away with murder”: Mark Knopfler on why he doesn’t consider himself a “guitar god” – and the ones in the industry who deserve that title … from Guitarworld janelle.borg@futurenet.com (Janelle Borg)
40 years after the release of the Dire Straits’ seminal album, Brothers in Arms, Knopfler reflects on that game-changing period and why he was always…
“We were doing War Pigs… Ozzy looks at me and mouths, ‘What are the words?’ I said, ‘Idon’t know.’ So he started singing Old MacDonald Had a Farm”: Jake E. Lee on his wild Ozzy Osbourne days and why Tony Iommi is harder to emulate than Randy Rhoads … from Guitarworld
Arthritis and the small matter of being shot didn’t stop Jake E. Lee from honoring his old bandmate/boss Ozzy Osbourne and hero Tony Iommi at…
Dune Messiah begins production as fans spot Timothee Chalamet hair change … from the Independent Greg Evans
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Lorde says disordered eating left her ‘distant from creativity’ and was ‘all I was thinking about’ … from the Independent Neve Dawson
Singer says there was a time where all she thought about was ‘weighing as little as possible’ Read More
Popular power bank brand orders recall and halts production after flight ban … from the Independent Alisha Rahaman Sarkar
Romoss Technology recalls nearly 490,000 power banks after metal debris in battery cells found to pose overheating risks Read More