Timothy Finn

In March 2003, the three ladies formerly known as The Dixie Chicks suffered punishment that far exceeded the offense, which was speaking out against an impending war and the president who was about to launch it. For that, they were blacklisted by the country-radio world that had propelled them into superstardom, pilloried on all media…

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The year 2022 signifies two significant milestones for the Eagles: the 50th anniversary of their debut Eagles album and the 45th anniversary of their most successful album, the classic-rock mainstay Hotel California. To commemorate that, the band announced a transcontinental tour—one that will continue well into 2023. On Thanksgiving Eve, the band checked into the…

Music became important to Mikala Petillo early in life, a way to endure the sorrows, disappointments, and losses of her childhood. Born into a family of five children in Kansas City, Kansas, where she attended Christ the King School and joined the school’s choir. Then her life started changing profoundly: Her grandmother died, her parents…

If your familiarity with the work of David McCleary Sheldon—aka the rapper Mac Lethal—is limited to his blockbuster video, then you no doubt will be surprised, blindsided even, by his latest album, Winter Heartbreak II, released in June in the wake of what Sheldon said had been an unbearably painful year. And if your familiarity…

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