Luke Combs and Midland are among the rising talents that have been selected to perform at the 2018 New Faces of Country Music show in February. The flagship event of every Country Radio Seminar, the upcoming concert will also feature showcases by Carly Pearce, Lauren Alaina and Michael Ray. As …
Read More »
U2, Songs of Experience“If Songs of Innocence was rock’s most persistently hopeful band looking back in wonder at their punk-rock origins and unlimited dreaming in late-Seventies Dublin,” writes David Fricke, “Songs of Experience is U2 in late middle age coming to grips with an inevitable reality: They no longer have …
Read More »
UPDATE: HBO has cut ties with Russell Simmons following sexual assault allegations against the music mogul. Simmons was set to bring back the show’s Def Comedy Jam as All Def Comedythis week and while the show will air, Simmons will not be a part of it. “HBO will be airing …
Read More »
UPDATE: NBC has received at least two more complaints since news broke of Matt Lauer‘s alleged “inappropriate sexual behavior” on Wednesday, which led to him being fired from Today, The New York Timesreports. One complaint came from a former employee who alleged that in 2001 she was summoned to Lauer’s …
Read More »
The year leading up to the release of the Magical Mystery Tour album in November 1967 was turbulent but fantastically fertile for the Beatles – they were working on its songs more or less simultaneously with the ones that ended up on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and the …
Read More »
Paul McCartney, Gorillaz, Ryan Adams and U2 are among those planning exclusive releases for Record Store Day‘s annual Black Friday event on November 24th. McCartney will help usher in the holiday season with a pair of 7-inch singles. Each contains a new rendition of “Wonderful Christmastime,” which originally came out …
Read More »
UPDATE: A fifth woman has accused Senator Al Franken of groping, according to CNN.Stephanie Kemplin claims that Franken groped her breast while she was stationed in the Middle East during the Iraq War. “I remember thinking –is he going to move his hand? Was it an accident? Was he going …
Read More »
On the surface. Wonder looks like the kind of family-pandering pap that makes me want to run the other way. Do you really want to spend two hours watching the plight of a young boy born with a congenital facial deformity that gets him ridiculed when he musters the courage …
Read More »
It ended as it began – only bigger. Nearly 50 years after Black Sabbath formed in Birmingham, England, they played the final show of their farewell tour there this past February. During the gig, they revisited many of the colossal blues rockers they wrote in the late Sixties – numbers …
Read More »
People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” cover has long been a cultural phenomenon, highlighting some of the planet’s biggest stars since first running the feature (with the title going to Mel Gibson) in 1985. It’s no small feat, then, that Blake Shelton is 2017’s “Sexiest Man Alive” – he’s the first …
Read More »