Pray for me/I’m about to hit the ‘Ye button I don’t wanna say nothin’ wrong/But it’d be wrong if I ain’t say nothin’ Imagine if I ain’t say somethin’/Wouldn’t none of these niggas say nothin’?—Kanye West, “Champions” Is there a such thing as bad press? This month, Kanye West – …
Read More »Brett Eldredge Extends 2018 Long Way Tour
Country crooner Brett Eldredge has announced a second leg of shows on his first-ever headlining Long Way Tour fall run, adding new dates for fall. Kicking off September 13th in Denver, Colorado, and running through October 19th in Boca Raton, Florida, Eldredge’s trek has been extended by 14 more dates …
Read More »Review: Lake Street Dive's 'Free Yourself Up' Conjures Retro Pleasures
Rachael Price’s voice comes at you like a muscle car of music history, blues and bebop detailing on a classic soul ‘n’ rock chassis, and her band’s latest set comes with songcraft grown tighter and more polished, shrewdly conjuring retro pleasures per usual. The funky-pop strut “Shame Shame Shame,” for …
Read More »Hear Christina Aguilera's Kanye West-Produced New Song With 2 Chainz
Christina Aguilera will releaseher first new album in six years,Liberation, on June 15th via RCA Records. The singer previewed the LP with the Kanye West-produced trap-pop single “Accelerate,” featuring 2 Chainz and Ty Dolla $ign, and its accompanying racy music video. (Producers Mike Dean, Eric Danchick and Che Pope also …
Read More »Watch Ruth Bader Ginsburg School Supreme Court on Sexism in Doc Trailer
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg‘s groundbreaking work as a lawyer is examined in the new trailer for the upcoming documentaryRBG. The film opens in New York and Los Angeles May 4th, with nationwide expansion scheduled throughout the month. Ginsburg had a wealth of Supreme Court experience before Bill Clinton …
Read More »'Westworld' Recap: Back to the Future
They call it Glory, or the Valley Beyond. It houses everything you need to destroy the forces behind the theme park(s). No mysterious maze here: It’s the promised land, the place where both the revolutionary robot Dolores and her human nemesis the Man in Black are headed. And it makes …
Read More »Keith Urban on New Album 'Graffiti U,' Sampling Haggard, Writing With Ed Sheeran
Joining Keith Urban in a recording studio is a little like escorting a kid through a candy shop. On a rainy Monday afternoon in Nashville, Urban is sitting in front of the console at Starstruck Studios on Music Row, ready and eager to dial up tracks, samples and sounds from …
Read More »The Supreme Court of Donald Trump
A majority of justices on the Supreme Court in late June – my best guess is Monday, June 25 – will endorse the Trump administration’s latest travel ban not because it is just, moral, necessary or even sensible, but because the Constitution and Congress have given presidents, even a president …
Read More »An Evening at Anthony Scaramucci's Steakhouse
The Hunt & Fish Club in Midtown Manhattan looks nothing like it sounds. There are no deer heads on the wall, no trout trophies, no pheasants taxidermied to appear as if in mid-flight. Most of the surfaces are mirrored, and the ones that aren’t are made of marble. It looks …
Read More »Why Amy Schumer's 'I Feel Pretty' Is Quietly Revolutionary
The most radical shot in the new Amy Schumer comedy I Feel Pretty is a mid-thirties woman staring at herself. In close-up, the star’s face fills the frame: no glamour lighting, no genetically blessed cheekbones, no modern day digital retouching smoothing out the creases. It’s what most people see when …
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