Our night in downtown Nashville begins in a bank-turned-tattoo-parlor-turned-Luke Bryan-themed restaurant with a pickup truck dangling over the stage where a band is covering Maren Morris’s “My Church.” The space has six levels, eight bars, numerous light-up “Luke Bryan” signs and more flat screens than a Best Buy. But we …
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A review of tonight’s Better Call Saul coming up just as soon as I can work with the TV on… “I’m gonna be a damn good lawyer, and people are gonna know about it.” -Jimmy This week’s episode — “Quite a Ride” — is the first episode of Better Call …
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Mason Ramsey stops dribbling a basketball to tell me something. “I’m not so good during the summer,” he says, “because that’s when all my superpowers go away.” It’s the first of at least a dozen instances during the recent hour or so spent with the 11-year-old when I am overcome …
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Phish have been forced to cancel their three-day festival, Curveball, Variety reports. The sold-out event was scheduled for this weekend at Watkins Glen International Raceway in New York. Fans who are already onsite are allowed to camp overnight, but the grounds will be closed by noon on Friday, according to …
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Ariana Grande appeared on The Late Late Show With James Corden on Monday where she and the host remade the soundtrack to Titanic with new songs in a breathless five minutes. The pair spanned 13 songs in nine sets for a one-shot take. They launched their boat adventure with the …
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Paul Simon‘s upcoming 14th solo album, In the Blue Light, features the iconic songwriter’s deep cuts reworked, rearranged and rethought. On three of its tracks, Simon appears alongside New York chamber ensemble yMusic, a sextet notable for blurring the lines between classical-minded indie rockers and accessible bouts of 21st-century composition. …
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President Trump’s manic Twitter dysentery over the weekend contained more than a few nuggets that would have shamed, embarrassed or mortified normal presidents in a normal era. Two big, dumb ideas emerged from Trumpworld in the last few days — one of which placed the president’s own son (and the …
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Oscilloscope Laboratories is honoring the musical, cinematic and philanthropic work of late Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch with “The House That Yauch Built,” an interactive, multi-media tour of his recording studio and film production headquarters. The website – which launched Friday, three days before what would have been the musician’s …
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The Barbz — the nickname given to Nicki Minaj’s army of online fans — are a force of nature. If Nicki is their queen bee, each member is a buzzing worker bee intent on protecting her majesty at any cost. No jab, swipe or Twitter critique escapes their purview. You …
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When Eric Church‘s debut album Sinners Like Me hit in 2006, it signaled a brash new direction for country music. Here was an artist who, although leaning heavily on rock & roll, maintained a foothold in country, especially with his enlightened workingman lyricism. Naturally, Church evolved over his next four …
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