In an earlier life, Jason Owen worked in television for visionaries like Aaron Spelling. Now as one of Nashville’s most influential managers, he’s taking what he learned from the 90210 creator to revive country music’s long-standing history with TV — and maybe catapult the next real superstar in the process. …

Cori Bush never wanted to be a politician. She watched her dad, a mayor and city councilman, work long, thankless hours doing it. Instead, she became a nurse, a pastor, and later, an activist in Ferguson, Missouri, after the police killing of Michael Brown. It was in Ferguson that Bush …

Tenacious D have released a cover ofRocky Horror Picture Show‘s “Time Warp” to help support Rock the Vote. In the accompanying music video — which features Jack Black in some very on-point Rocky Horror costumes — the band get a little help from their friends in getting out the vote. …

Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, Foo Fighters’ Rami Jaffee, the Go-Go’s Kathy Valentine, and more have helped out the Afghanistan outfit the Miraculous Love Kids/Girl With a Guitar on their new cover of the Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams.” The cover finds the Miraculous Love Kids/Girl With a Guitar transforming the …

Sacha Baron Cohen released a new video as Borat “defending” Rudy Giuliani after news emerged about a scene in Borat Subsequent Moviefilmin which President Trump’s personal attorney appears to start touching himself. The scene occurs toward the end of Baron Cohen’s Borat sequel (out Friday, October 23rd, via Amazon Studios), …

Netflix has released the first teaser for Voices of Fire, an upcoming docuseries about Pharrell’s efforts to build a world class gospel choir in his hometown of Hampton Roads, Virginia. The six-episode series will premiere November 20th. Pharrell served as an executive producer on the show and appears in it, …

David Byrne has been getting along relatively well this year, since he and the rest of the world started quarantining. He’s even developed some new cooking skills. “It sounds like a country song, but here we go, I’ve been ‘cooking for one,’” says the 68-year-old singer with a smile during …

Actor Wendell Pierce — best known for his work on The Wire and Treme — announced that a long-dormant biopic on blues legend B.B. King,The Thrill Is On, is back on in a series of tweets posted Monday night. “We are official,” Pierce wrote. “Preparation has begun on a film …

Mandy Moore and Taylor Goldsmith interviewed California Governor Gavin Newsom on some of the biggest topics impacting their state, including climate change, Covid-19, and the upcoming 2020 presidential election, for Rolling Stone‘s first Fridays for Unity event. Moore addressed climate change by bringing up the recent devastating wildfires in California; …

Demi Lovato and Marshmello, Finneas and YG performed sets at empty venues in Los Angeles to mark the first day of the Save Our Stages Festival (#SOSFest), a three-day virtual event in support of the National Independent Venue Association’s (NIVA). Prior to their performance, Marshmello and Lovato discussed the urgent …