Slipknot staged their first concert in nearly three years Friday on Jimmy Kimmel Live, where the band played new single “Unsainted” and 2018’s “All Out Life” for the first time live. Slipknot’s Kimmel mini-set, the band’s first live gig since November 2016, follows the announcement earlier this week of their …
Read More »Hear Lady Antebellum's Heartbroken New Song 'What If I Never Get Over You'
Lady Antebellum have returned with the new song “What If I Never Get Over You,” the multi-Platinum trio’s debut under a new agreement with Big Machine Label Group. The single is the group’s first new music since 2017’s Heart Break, their final album with longtime label home Capitol Nashville. Nodding …
Read More »Watch Kamala Harris Pitch Teacher Pay Raises on 'Full Frontal'
Samantha Bee spoke with California Senator and 2020 presidential hopeful Kamala Harris about her plan to improve pay among public school teachers on Full Frontal Wednesday. As Harris noted, teachers make, on average, 11 percent less than similarly college educated professionals, and the meager wages are causing people to leave …
Read More »'Contact High' Shows Hip-Hop Icons in a New Light
As the director of publicity and marketing at Payday Records in the early 1990s, Vikki Tobak worked with acts like Jay-Z and Gang Starr as they were beginning their careers. “There was this inflection point where hip-hop started to realize its power,” Tobak says. “[Artists] realized that images — what …
Read More »Grand Ole Opry at Bonnaroo to Return With Steve Earle, Ricky Skaggs
The Grand Ole Opry is returning to Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival for the second consecutive year, bringing a diverse lineup of performers to Manchester, Tennessee, on the festival’s opening night, Thursday, June 13th. Hosted once again by Opry members Old Crow Medicine Show — who will also perform — …
Read More »Paul McCartney Remembers Doris Day: 'She Was a True Star'
Paul McCartney remembered his longtime friend and fellow animal lover, Doris Day. The legendary singer and actress died Monday at age 97 after contracting pneumonia. “She was a true star in more ways than one,” he wrote on his website. One of those ways was as a lifelong animal welfare …
Read More »Emma Thompson on 'SNL': 3 Sketches You Have to See
Another season of Saturday Night Live is winding down, and looking back, it’s hard to figure out a particular through line to describe the past year of the show. If there’s one, it’s that the show has finally decided during the second half of Season 44 that simply showing clips …
Read More »Keith Raniere's Alleged Sex Cult Was Extreme — But His Misogynistic Views Were Horrifyingly Normal
On Wednesday, the first witness in the Keith Raniere trial, a 32-year-old woman identified only as Sylvie, wrapped up her grueling two-day testimony regarding her nearly 13 years in the organization. The daughter of well-off English parents, Sylvie recounted how she had been drawn into NXIVM‘s orbit when she was …
Read More »3 Portable Accessories Songwriters Use to Record on the Fly
Mark Foster has spent countless hours working on music in the studio, but lately, the Foster the People frontman says he’s been trying to take his songwriting to go. “The past couple of years, it’s been a goal of mine to capture inspiration when it strikes,” says the singer and …
Read More »The College Admissions Scandal Is Getting a TV Adaptation
Annapurna Television has optioned the rights to adapt the college admissions scandal story, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The limited series project will be adapted from the forthcoming book Accepted, written by Wall Street Journal reporters Melissa Korn and Jennifer Levitz. The book will detail the case that the FBI has dubbed …
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