Adele offered a preview of her new song “Easy on Me” on Instagram Live Saturday ahead of the single’s release on Friday, October 15th. The singer, whose new album 30 has not yet officially been announced, shared a 45-second snippet of the ballad, stopping right as the chorus was about …
Read More »Chris Stapleton, Gabby Barrett Named 2021 CMT Artists of the Year
CMT’s Artists of the Year awards show will be back this fall in its usual form after hitting pause in 2020 to recognize pandemic frontline workers in healthcare, military, and education with the “CMT Honors Our Heroes” special. The 2021 CMT Artists of the Year ceremonies, set to air live …
Read More »Monica Lewinsky Talks How Public Shaming Can Be 'Violence'
Monica Lewinsky appeared on The Daily Show Wednesday to discuss her new documentary 15 Minutes of Shame as well as the benefits of and problems with “cancel culture” with host Trevor Noah. Lewinsky first talked about how her role in the infamous Bill Clinton scandal — which made her “patient …
Read More »6 Takeaways From the 2021 BET Hip Hop Awards
Though they were preceded with a nostalgic special edition of the long-retired Rap City and capped with a medley of Nelly’s hits through the aughts, this year’s annual BET Hip Hop Awards was at its best when it highlighted new talent in the world of rap. Here are the best …
Read More »Robby Krieger Debunks Mythology Behind the Doors' Notorious 'Sullivan' Performance
Fifty years after Jim Morrison’s mysterious death in Paris, enough books on the Doors have been published to fill several shelves at your local bookstore. John Densmore and the late Ray Manzarek wrote their memoirs, numerous biographies are on the market, and a few months ago, a coffee-table volume of …
Read More »Ringo Starr, Max Weinberg, Matt Cameron Lead Massive Cover of 'Come Together' to End World Hunger
Ringo Starr, Max Weinberg, Pearl Jam’s Matt Cameron, and over 100 other musicians have united for a massive cover of the Beatles’ “Come Together” as part of a new campaign to help end world hunger. The “Drum Together” clip was organized by WhyHunger, and along with Starr, Weinberg, and Cameron, …
Read More »'Ted Lasso' Recap: Cheating Hearts
A review of this week’s Ted Lasso, “Midnight Train to Royston,” coming up just as soon as you make my eyebrows less crazy… Midway through “Midnight Train to Royston,” Rebecca enters Ted’s office to tell him about her affair with Sam. After Ted makes the obligatory Cheers joke(*), he advises …
Read More »David Lee Roth Announces Retirement: 'I'm Throwing in the Shoes'
Former Van Halen singer David Lee Roth will play the last concert of his career on January 8th, 2022, at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, a spokesperson for Roth confirmed to Rolling Stone. “I’m throwing in the shoes,” Roth told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on …
Read More »'This Is My Pantheon': Spike Lee Weighs In on His Academy Museum Exhibit
It’s a week before the long-delayed, much-anticipated opening of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures — the film industry’s lavish salute to its history and artistry, located in the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood in Los Angeles — and workers and officials are buzzing around the 300,000-square-foot campus, putting together the last-minute touches …
Read More »Unreleased John Lennon, Yoko Ono Song Sells at Auction for Almost $60,000
A cassette containing what’s believed to be a previously unreleased John Lennon and Yoko Ono song, “Radio Peace,” has sold for $58,300 at an auction in Copenhagen, Denmark. The cassette was made in 1970 by four Danish teenagers, who got the chance to interview Lennon at the New Experimental College …
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