On Valentine’s Day 2018, a 19-year-old ex-student took an Uber to his old high school; he walked across the campus and into a three-story building, where he killed 17 people and injured 17 more. It was the sixth of 24 shootings in U.S. schools last year, but the incident at …
Read More »When Musicians 'Crash and Burn,' MusiCares Is There to Help
Not long after Travis Meadows, an aspiring singer-songwriter, moved to Nashville over a decade ago, he hit a wall. “Every possible crisis a man could have, I had: a marriage crisis, a crisis of faith, a career crisis, all at the same time,” he says. “I crashed and burned, went …
Read More »Grammys 2019: Childish Gambino, Kacey Musgraves Run the World
Childish Gambino and Kacey Musgraves took home the biggest prizes at the 2019 Grammy Awards, with the rapper winning both Song and Record of the Year for “This Is America” and the country musician taking home Album of the Year for Golden Hour. Both Musgraves and Childish Gambino notched four …
Read More »Watch Halsey Deliver Smoldering Power Ballad 'Without Me' on 'SNL'
After taking a break during Super Bowl weekend, Saturday Night Live returned with Halsey pulling double duty as both host and musical guest. The Hopeless Fountain Kingdom singer delivered a powerful, stripped-down performance of her Number One hit “Without Me.” While singing a piano ballad rendition of the track, a …
Read More »Dua Lipa, Chloe x Halle, Bebe Rexha Shine at Spotify's Best New Artist Grammy Party
Toward the end of Bebe Rexha‘s mini-set at Thursday night’s Spotify party for the Grammys’ Best New Artist nominees at Los Angeles’ Hammer Museum, the pop singer-songwriter stopped her hit “Meant to Be” as the song began. “I worked too hard for this fucking bullshit,” she admonished the lethargic audience. …
Read More »Review: Backstreet's Back With Contemporary-Pop Magic on 'DNA'
DNA is the first Backstreet Boys album to hit Number One in nearly 20 years, quite a moment for a group that’s spent the lion’s share of those two decades wandering the pop wilderness. Of course, if the BSB who sold somewhere in the neighborhood of eleventy skadillion records between …
Read More »Pope Admits Priests and Bishops Sexually Abuse Nuns
On Tuesday, February 5th, Pope Francis offered his first public comments on what the Associated Press called a “global and pervasive” scandal that has quietly plagued the Roman Catholic Church for decades — the sexual abuse of nuns by bishops and priests. Last year, the Vatican refused to comment on …
Read More »See Margo Price Indict Poseurs With 'Cocaine Cowboys' on 'Kimmel'
For her debut appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Margo Price took a star turn with her song “Cocaine Cowboys,” stretching out the All American Made track into a seven-minute jam and taking a seat behind a second drum kit for an extended musical outro. The country-funk track, a staple of …
Read More »21 Savage Legal Team: Rapper Was Born in U.K., Has Lived in U.S. Since Age 7
Since his arrest on Sunday night, the particulars of 21 Savage‘s legal situation have been murky. According to a Tuesday evening statement from his legal team,headed by immigration lawyer Charles H. Kuck, that’s in part because previous statements from ICE contributed to the confusion by providing misinformation. According to the …
Read More »Hannah Gadsby Plots Stand-Up Tour of New Show 'Douglas'
Update April 8, 3:38 p.m.Gadsby has announced a new four-week limited engagement run of Douglas in New York, July 23rd to August 17th at the Daryl Roth Theater. Tickets go on sale Sunday, April 14th at 10:00 a.m. Hannah Gadsby will follow her 2018 breakout Netflix stand-up special, Nanette, with …
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