Singer-songwriter Matt Stell, whose single “Prayed for You” is currently climbing charts, has announced details for his new EP. Titled Everywhere but On, the seven-track collection will be released via Sony Music Nashville on May 24th. “Prayed for You” originally appeared on Stell’s independently released 2018 EP Last of the …
Read More »Soho Grifter Anna Delvey Sentenced to Four to 12 Years in Prison
Anna Delvey, the so-called Soho Grifter was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison after being found guilty of scamming hotels, restaurants, banks and more out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, The New York Times reports. Last month, Delvey (born Anna Sorokin) was found guilty of eight of …
Read More »Grammys Name Deborah Dugan New Recording Academy President and CEO
The Recording Academy has appointed Deborah Dugan as its new president and CEO, Variety reports. She will take the place of Neil Portnow, who will step down in July after helming the organization since 2002. Dugan comes to the Recording Academy following her role as CEO for (RED), the nonprofit …
Read More »Ask a Budtender: Back to Basics
In legal states, dispensary clerks have become the de-facto experts on modern weed products and how to use them — offering everything from recommendations on the kind of flower you should smoke to the best vape system to fit your particular needs. Yet for the rest of us, in non-legal …
Read More »Brandi Carlile Enlists Sheryl Crow, Amanda Shires for 2020 Girls Just Wanna Weekend
Sheryl Crow, Patty Griffin, Lucius, Amanda Shires and Lake Street Dive are just a few of the names announced today as part of the lineup for Brandi Carlile‘s second annual Girls Just Wanna Weekend Festival in Mexico. Jade Bird, Yola, KT Tunstall, Ruby Amanfu, Natalie Hemby and Katie Herzig will …
Read More »'Killing Eve' Recap: Babes in the Woods
A review of “Smell Ya Later,” this week’s Killing Eve, coming up just as soon as I look like someone stuck a mustache on some fudge… “Together again. Gee, it’s good to be together again. I just can’t imagine that you’ve ever been gone. It’s not starting over. It’s just …
Read More »Bird-Dogging Beto: How Students Convinced O'Rourke to Swear Off Fossil-Fuel Money
When former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke, now a 2020 candidate, bounded up onto a platform inside Trinkle Hall on the campus of William and Mary College in Virginia in mid-April, he may not have known he was bounding into a carefully planned ambush. Scattered throughout the audience, student activists were …
Read More »Yes, Hozier Really Did Cover 'Say My Name'
In the latest episode of Spotify’s Under Cover podcast, Hozier professed his love for Destiny’s Child. “If you have been living under a rock, under a fossil, under a cavern, under just some long-forgotten lava pool under the earth, if you’ve never heard it before, ‘Say My Name’ by Destiny’s …
Read More »Jaden Smith To Play 'Alternate Reality' Kanye West in Showtime Series
Jaden Smith has been cast as a younger version of Kanye West in Showtime‘s upcoming limited half-hour anthology series Omniverse. Smith will play an alternate reality version of West, who will act as an executive producer on the show alongside manager Scooter Braun. According to Variety, the series will examine …
Read More »Carly Rae Jepsen: Queen of Hearts
“You have to promise you won’t think I’m a maniac,” Carly Rae Jepsen says, sitting in the living room of her Spanish-style home on L.A.’s east side. A devilish grin spreads across her face, which these days is framed by a short, blond bob instead of her signature mahogany hair. …
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