It’s official – Britpop is a flop in the United States, with not a single act on the U.S. industry barometer Billboard chart for the first time in nearly 40 years. Pop pundits insist that the disappearance of UK acts from Billboard’s top 100 singles chart is just a blip, but it follows a long decline in sales which critics say reflects the flood of manufactured bands on both sides of the Atlantic. Long gone are the days when bands like the Beatles dominated the U.S. singles charts. In 1964 the Fab Four held the top five singles in the… Read more »
The body of the late pop and soul singer Aaliyah was flown back to the United States Tuesday as safety experts examined the plane that crashed in the Bahamas, killing her and eight others. A private jet carrying the body of the 22-year-old singer and movie actress landed at Newark International Airport in New Jersey, and a hearse carried the casket away to an unknown location, according to sources. Several hours earlier, heartbroken fans gathered outside a Nassau funeral home to watch as a black hearse drove away with Aaliyah’s body. At Nassau International Airport, police stood guard while her… Read more »
In what promises to be one of the most exciting concert events of the summer season 200l, singer/songwriter Paul Simon and his 11-piece band will kick-off a 28-city tour of the United States Saturday, June 9th, at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Seattle, Washington. Simon will be joined on the tour by one of rock’s most deeply revered figures, the legendary Brian Wilson, co-founder of The Beach Boys. Wilson will be accompanied by his 10-piece band, which includes the four-member group, The Wondermints. The Paul Simon Summer 200l tour comes hot on the heels of Simon’s Grammy Nomination for Album of… Read more »
NASHVILLE — Watch Nathan Followill breeze into his local Nashville watering hole, and it’s obvious that he’s well known and well liked by the crew at McCabe’s Pub. Clad in sweats and a Yankees cap, the Kings of Leon drummer comes off more as cool local guy than international rock star Nothing in this manner indicates that his Nashville-based rock band’s fourth album is finally making the Kings as big in the United States as they have been in Europe since 2004, when the group had back-to-back No. 1 singles in the United Kingdom According to the band’s label, RCA,… Read more »
More than 25 artists – from boys (of the Backstreet, ‘NSYNC and O-Town variety) to men (elder statesmen such as Aerosmith, James Brown and Rod Stewart), from vocal queens (Destiny’s Child, Mariah Carey, Carole King) to the King of Pop – took the stage Sunday at RFK Stadium for the all-day United We Stand – What More Can I Give benefit concert for victims of September’s terrorist attacks. Themes of unity and perseverance permeated every performance, with artists often thanking the sold-out crowd for the message they were sending to the rest of the country – that no matter the… Read more »
Today the nerds start out in our United States of Cannabis with Leafly’s Top 10 Cannabis Cities of 2024 (and the list will surprise you!). Next, T-Breaks and how to ease into them, because Sasha is going to Japan in a month and the process must begin! TS has a regimen that we’ll follow along with the next few weeks, because tolerance breaks are important and also scary (for Sasha at least). Then we end with Biden’s Second Chance month promise, and try to feel hopeful about the future! So don’t panic! It’s organic!
The nerds are separated by an entire country in this week’s show as TS hangs out in Florida and Sasha holds in down back in LA! Minorly chaotic, but chock full of news and reviews, this show has got it all! We run down our Hall of Flowers experience and TS reviews his Jungle Boys Florida experience. Then we take it to the United States of Cannabis and the saga of the schedule! Then back to Med Men for our Final Huff and Puff! Join us, and don’t panic! It’s organic!
The Nerds fully acknowledge that we are in a green smoky bubble here in LA, and we don’t want to seem like we are just sitting in our emerald tower unaware of the canna-world around us. So we are giving you all the latest in the United States of Cannabis in this episode and presenting you with our first ever budtender profile!
The nerds are back with their last show of the year! We laugh, we cough, we laugh again and we recap the news from the United States of Cannabis! We also break down Leafly’s budtender’s list of the best strains from each state!
The nerds are back with tons of news from the United States of Cannabis. Starting with good news from Missouri and Jersey and making our way to Ohio for some wackness and we end in Georgia for a Huff and Puff.
