A Joni Mitchell tribute album, celebrating her 75th birthday, will feature live renditions of the singer’s songs by Brandi Carlile, Norah Jones, Chaka Khan, James Taylor and many others. The record, Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration, will come out on March 8th. It contains a recording of a tribute concert …
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Hilary Duff stars as the terrified titular actress in the new trailer for The Haunting of Sharon Tate,the horror film that views the Manson family murders through Tate’s perspective. Five people — Tate and her unborn child, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski and Abigail Folger –were killed on August 8th, 1969. …
Read More »ICE Apprehends 21 Savage, Claims Rapper Is British and Overstayed Visa
21 Savage was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Atlanta Sunday, with the agency claiming that the rapper is actually from the United Kingdom and overstayed his visa after coming to America as a teenager. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that 21 Savage, real name …
Read More »Oscars 2019: Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper to Perform 'Shallow' at Ceremony
The Academy Awards confirmed Friday that Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga will perform their A Star Is Born hit “Shallow” at the February 24th ceremony. The duet is nominated in the Best Original Song category. The Oscars‘ announcement comes less than a week after Gaga and Cooper performed the song …
Read More »Flashback: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Rock the Super Bowl
The e-mail that the National Football League had been awaiting for years finally arrived a few days after 2008’s Super Bowl XLII. On his train commute home, Charles Coplin, then the NFL’s head of programming, saw a notification pop up on his BlackBerry — a message from Jon Landau, Bruce …
Read More »21 Savage, J. Cole's 'A Lot' is Stuck Between Heaven and Hell
There is a devastating sadness to 21 Savage and J. Cole‘s “A Lot” video, not because of its musings on poverty, death, racism, abuse and generational trauma. Those are sad as well, but that imagery is so ingrained in the black experience that one learns to exist with that consistent …
Read More »Bobby Bare Tribute: Margo Price, Steve Earle Highlight Outlaw Country Cruise Concert
When the fourth annual Outlaw Country Cruise docked in Nassau in the Bahamas on Wednesday morning, it picked up a new passenger: Country Music Hall of Fame member Bobby Bare. The 83-year-old singer, who became synonymous with the Outlaw genre via progressive albums like Bobby Bare Sings Lullabys, Legends and …
Read More »Watch Lily and Madeleine's Teen-Dream Drama in 'Can't Help the Way I Feel' Video
Folk-pop duo Lily & Madeleine released “Can’t Help the Way I Feel,” aretro-styled clip that finds sisters Lily and Madeleine Jurkiewicz lounging on a bed, blowing bubblegum, listening to music on headphones and chatting on a landline phone. Director Horatio Baltz creates a vivid landscape out of this ordinary backdrop, …
Read More »Flashback: Music Stars Record 'We Are the World' on January 28, 1985
Quincy Jones is traditionally viewed as the mastermind behind the apex of all charity singles, but it was actually Harry Belafonte who instigated the idea in the wake of Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” Seeking to make a star-studded Yankee equivalent to alleviate the Ethiopian famine, Belafonte contacted …
Read More »El Chapo Trial: Defense Only Calls One Witness, Both Sides Rest
The trial of accused cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera inched toward the finish line Tuesday morning as the defense team rested its case after calling a single witness to testify. In a lightning round of questioning that clocked in at less than half an hour, defense attorney Jeffrey …
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