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Some records announce themselves with a bang. Vincent Neil Emerson’s Blue Stars does something tougher. It settles in, tells the truth, and lets the weight of the songs do the heavy lifting. That makes it a natural fit beside Guy Clark’s Old No. 1, a record that helped define how Texas songwriting could be plain, precise, and quietly devastating. Beyond sound or geography, the connection is a shared belief that the smallest details often carry the biggest truths.

The wild trend sees TikTokers storming Scientology church buildings in order to go as deep in them as possible. People are even making maps.

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‘Dega, baby. The NASCAR Cup Series is at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama this weekend for the Jack Link’s 500, and as is usually the case at the sport’s biggest track, you never really know what’s going to happen. The first stage of the race was a fuel mileage game, with teams playing different strategies to make it to the end of the stage. Ryan Preece led a group of Fords to win the first stage, but it wasn’t long into […]

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A viral video on social media shows the Waymo driverless vehicle coming to a stop, before a cop approaches the window to speak to support.

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Three people have died in a rare surge of snake bite incidents in California, with experts calling the spike unusual.

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The North Dakota representative had just boarded a plane north of Minneapolis when disaster struck, and it crashed just after takeoff.

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College athlete Graycen Vargo has died after collapsing during a track championship, leaving his university community in mourning.

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Wallen wasn’t available to sing with Langley at Stagecoach for a very simple reason. Continue reading…

Ronda Rousey is gearing up for her return to the octagon. She’s aiming to pay respect by being the best version of herself within that cage.

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It wasn’t just Stagecoach that was battling weather conditions yesterday. All over the United States, it seemed like country music fans were fighting Mother Nature. Things at Stagecoach in California were a mess when high-speed winds forced the festival to rearrange its schedule, canceling sets for artists like Riley Green. Over in Nebraska, Zach Bryan and his band were battling extreme thunderstorms, but miraculously still somehow managed to get to “Revival” to close out the night in the pouring rain. […]

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