A French film that used the Bataclan terror attack in Paris as the backdrop for a romantic drama has been postponed following an outcry over the TV movie. France 2, a national public broadcaster, announced Thursday that they have indefinitely shelved Ce Soir-Là (That Night) after a Change.org petition, created …
Read More »Watch Dierks Bentley Perform Driving New Song 'Burning Man'
It may be nearly two years since Dierks Bentley‘s latest LP Black was released, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have plenty of new music. He recently played one of those new songs, titled “Burning Man,” at one of his final concerts of 2017 at The Chelsea Theater at The …
Read More »Did El Mencho's Cartel Murder a YouTube Star?
On Monday night, Mexican social media star Juan Luis Lagunas Rosales – a.k.a. “El Pirata de Culiacán” was shot and killed inside a bar in Zapopan, Jalisco. Rosales, a 17-year-old who found fame posting clips of himself drinking heavily, was reportedly attacked by several heavily armed individuals. His death comes …
Read More »On the Charts: Luke Bryan Hits Number One With 'What Makes You Country'
Luke Bryan claimed his third straight Number One album and fourth chart-topping release in the past five years as the country singer’s new LP What Makes You Country opened atop the Billboard 200. The new American Idol judge’s What Makes You Country debuted with 108,000 total copies – 99,000 of …
Read More »Frank Zappa's 1973 Roxy Residency Focus of New Box Set
Frank Zappa‘s legendary two-night, four-show December 1973 stand at Los Angeles’ Roxy Theatre will be the focus of an upcoming box set packed with unreleased performances, soundcheck and rehearsal recordings and more. The Roxy concerts were previously featured on the 1974 live album Roxy & Elsewhere as well as the …
Read More »'Close Encounters' at 40: How Spielberg Made the Mothership Connection
How do you follow up a record-breaking blockbuster about a killer shark? For starters, you get out of the ocean. And then maybe you look up. A longtime watcher of the skies, young Steven Spielberg had already been kicking around an idea involving alien visitation, spacecraft “sightings” and government cover-ups …
Read More »Moody Blues' Justin Hayward on Hall of Fame Honor: 'It's Amazing!'
Up until the moment he learned the Moody Blues were entering the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, frontman Justin Hayward spent almost no time thinking about the institution. “On Friday, I couldn’t have cared less,” he says. “On Saturday, when I found out we were in, I was thinking, …
Read More »Keaton Jones' Mother Addresses Bullying Video Backlash: I'm Not 'Racist'
UPDATE: Keaton Jones’ mother, Kimberly Jones, appeared on CBS This MorningTuesday to address the growing backlash surrounding a Facebook post showing her and Keaton with Confederate flags. “The only two photos – the only two photos on the entire planet that I am anywhere near a Confederate flag. It was …
Read More »Hear Brandi Carlile's Delicate New Song 'The Mother'
Brandi Carlile offers another sneak peek into her upcoming album with today’s release of the delicate, meditative new song “The Mother.” Inspired by the birth of Evangeline, Carlile’s now-3-year-old daughter with wife Catherine Shepherd, “The Mother” finds Carlile taking stock of her life before and after Evangeline, opening the song …
Read More »See Samantha Bee Call New GOP Tax Bill 'Congressional Cosby'
Samantha Bee slammed the new Republican tax bill on Full Frontal on Thursday, accusing the GOP of taking money from future generations to pad the bank accounts of the uber-rich. Bee pointed out that 62% of the new bill’s benefits accrue to the richest 1% of Americans. She noted that …
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