When you play the game to be the next Game of Thrones, you win, or you waste a whole lot of money. You remember Game of Thrones, right? Epic fantasy drama adapted from a beloved (but still unfinished) book series, kicked off a new blockbuster era in television in terms …
Read More »Metallica Drop Massive 'Black Box' Project Overflowing With Rare Archival Content
Metallica have launched a new ongoing archival project, The Metallica Black Box, where the band will share an array of artifacts, memorabilia, and rare vault content from throughout their career. The Black Box launches Tuesday, Nov. 16, with The Black Album Exhibition, which features a variety of items tied to …
Read More »Beto O'Rourke Wants to Take Down Greg Abbott — and Build a Texas 'Big Enough for All of Us'
Beto O’Rourke is running for governor of Texas. The former congressman, Senate candidate, and Democratic candidate for president announced on Monday that he intends to unseat Republican Governor Greg Abbott. “Together, we can push past the small and divisive politics that we see in Texas today — and get back …
Read More »Watch Angel Olsen's Stripped-Down Adult Swim Festival Set
Angel Olsen performed an intimate, stripped-down mini-set as part of the virtual Adult Swim Festival this weekend. Accompanied only by electric guitar, Olsen — who performed live, and not prerecorded, for the livestream — played four tracks from her 2020 LP Whole New Mess, itself a bare bones version of …
Read More »Taylor Hawkins, Dave Navarro, Chris Chaney Supergroup Unleash Two More Songs
NHC — the new supergroup with Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins and Jane’s Addiction’s Dave Navarro and Chris Chaney — are back with two new songs, “Devil That You Know” and “Lazy Eyes.” “Devil That You Know” has a woozy pop rock vibe as the guitars flit between a heady swirl …
Read More »2021 CMA Awards: Country Music Tries to Forget a Really Bad Year
It’s become sort of a seasonal tradition for the Country Music Association to do something that makes people angry just before its annual November awards show. In 2017, there was the infamous entreaty to reporters to refrain from asking questions about gun control on the red carpet, while last year …
Read More »Watch Tori Kelly Perform 'What Happens Next' on 'Corden'
Tori Kelly appeared on The Late Late Show to perform her recent song “What Happens Next.” Playing with her band and three back-up singers, Kelly took on guitar and vocals for the sultry track. “Think I’m kinda scared to admit it,” Kelly croons on the lovelorn song. “Never thought I’d …
Read More »Dean Stockwell, 'Quantum Leap' and 'Blue Velvet' Star, Dead at 85
Dean Stockwell, the Oscar- and Emmy-nominated actor best known for the groundbreaking sci-fi shows Quantum Leap and Battlestar Galactica and David Lynch’s noir-fever dream Blue Velvet, has died at age 85. Variety has confirmed the actor’s death. Stockwell’s career spanned seven decades and began when he was a child. Though …
Read More »Tucker Carlson Is a 'Manipulative Son of a Bitch' — and Other Thoughts from Adam Kinzinger
Adam Kinzinger is the kind of Republican that Democrats say we need in Congress to put American politics on a more even keel. Throughout Donald Trump’s rise to power, Kinzinger, a 43-year-old Republican representative from Illinois, grew more wary of the president’s willingness to stay inside the boundaries of his …
Read More »On 'Thank You,' Diana Ross Wants to Pump. You. Up.
Diana Ross’ return to the pop landscape — her first record of newly written material, not covers, in over 20 years — sounds familiar, and there’s little doubt it was intended that way. In the years after she left the Supremes, Ross reached transcendent levels with billowy pop meant to …
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