The trailer forScandalous, an upcoming documentary on the infamous American tabloid theNational Enquirer, is out Tuesday. Directed by Mark Landsman, the film is in theaters November 15th. Scandalous traces the 60-year history of theNational Enquirer and offers an inside look at how it filled its pages with sex, gossip and …
Read More »'You Are Failing Us': Greta Thunberg Calls Out World Leaders in Passionate UN Speech
A week afterputting a Republican congressman in his place during a climate hearing in Washington, D.C., teenage activist Greta Thunberg took it to the world leaders gathered in New York on Monday for the United Nations Climate Action Summit, delivering a passionate indictment of their hesitation to take action to …
Read More »Watch Black Keys Perform 'Lonely Boy' With Wayne Newton at Vegas Fest
The Black Keys welcomed surprise guest and Sin City icon Wayne Newton onstage to perform “Lonely Boy” during the band’s set at Las Vegas’ Life Is Beautiful. The crooner dubbed “Mr. Las Vegas” – Newton has performed over 30,000 gigs on the Vegas Strip, including a current residency at Caesars …
Read More »'It's Always Sunny' Creator Rob McElhenney Looks on the Bright Side
When It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia returns to FXX for its 14th season on September 25th, it’ll be in the rarest of company. Only one live-action sitcom in TV history has lasted that many seasons, and it’s the spiritual opposite of Sunny: wholesome Fifties family comedy The Adventures of Ozzie …
Read More »Lee 'Scratch' Perry Previews New Dub Album With 'Enlightened'
Reggae mastermind Lee “Scratch” Perry unveiled an ethereal new song, “Enlightened,” from his upcoming dub album, Heavy Rain, set to arrive December 6th via On-U Sound. “Enlightened” finds Perry in vintage form, burrowing into a deep groove from which he unspools a hypnotizing mix of guitars, synths, drums and vocals. …
Read More »Watch Midland Sing Carefree 'Playboys' on 'Seth Meyers'
Midland sang one for the music-making ramblers on Tuesday’s episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers, where they performed “Playboys.” The song originally appears on the country trio’s 2019 album Let It Roll. With their uniquely flamboyant sense of style, Mark Wystrach, Cameron Duddy (who skips his shirt buttons entirely …
Read More »Flashback: The Cars Play 'You Might Think' at Live Aid
The Cars were near their commercial peak when they agreed to perform at Live Aid in the summer of 1985, but there was so much talent packed onto the bill at JFK Stadium for the event that even a string of recent hits didn’t help them score a slot better …
Read More »'Monos' Review: Rebels Without a Cause, or a Chaperone
They have names like Rambo, Bigfoot, Wolf, Dog, Lady, Smurf, Swede, Boom Boom. They live, for now, up in the hills of Colombia, high enough that clouds roll in and blanket the fields during pick-up soccer games. (Just to make things interesting, they all play blindfolded.) They have kidnapped an …
Read More »This Week in Latin Music: YouTube Policy Spurs Urbano Beef; Pop Divas Tour the U.S.
As Hispanic Heritage Month begins in the United States, debates over language and Latinx identity are only getting more heated. This week Santiago Matias, a host from the Dominican radio show Alofoke, posed that a recent report by Rolling Stone, which revealed how YouTube boosted view counts with ad sales, …
Read More »Hear Brent Cobb, Jade Bird's Soaring Duet 'Feet Off the Ground'
Georgia native Brent Cobb and U.K. singer-songwriter Jade Bird make for compelling, if unlikely, duet partners in the newly released song “Feet Off the Ground.” It’s the first new music from Cobb since putting out 2018’s acclaimed Providence Canyon and a postscript to Bird’s self-titled 2019 release. Imagining a couple …
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