Jennifer Lawrence relished her role as guest host on Jimmy Kimmel Live Thursday night, deep-diving into an interview with her “utter obsession, our Lord Jesus God,” Kim Kardashian. The self-professed Kardashian super fan kicked off the night with a punchy monologue that tackled everything from the Hollywood wage gap (“It …
Read More »Kevin Spacey Will Seek Treatment Amid Growing Misconduct Accusations
Kevin Spacey‘s publicist announced Wednesday that the veteran actor is seeking help after more men have come forward accusing him of sexual misconduct. “Kevin Spacey is taking the time necessary to seek evaluation and treatment,” the statement reads. “No other information is available at this time.” It is unclear what …
Read More »Avant-Garde Fest Big Ears Announces Jazz-Heavy 2018 Line-Up
Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, Tennessee’s annual weekend celebration of experimental music, is announcing the initial lineup for their 2018 edition, being held March 22nd through 25th. For their seventh year, the fest leans heavily toward the heavyweights of avant-garde jazz, including performances by Medeski Martin & Wood, piano luminaries Jason …
Read More »Flashback: Watch Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer's Creepy 'Psycho' Duet
In the history of country music, where grisly murder ballads and laments to dead mothers, children and dogs are commonplace, every day carries a little bit of the ghoulish Halloween spirit with it. There is probably no more twisted, demented and just plain odd a country song than “Psycho,” a …
Read More »Mark Hamill: Harrison Ford Convinced Me to Return to 'Star Wars'
Mark Hamill’s return to the Star Warsalmost didn’t happen, he revealed in a new interview with The New York Times.He will reprise his career-defining role as Luke Skywalker in the forthcoming Star Wars installment, The Last Jedi, out on December 15th. “I was just really scared,” Hamill said of when …
Read More »Travers: PTSD Drama 'Thank You for Your Service' Is 'Too Timid by Half'
You can’t watch a frame of Jason Hall’s Thank You for Your Service, about Iraq war veterans suffering from PSTD, without believing the film’s intentions are honorable. Points for that, for sure. Yet as filmmaking – this is Hall’s feature directing debut – Thank You for Service seems too timid …
Read More »'Dirty John': Inside Biggest True-Crime Podcast Since 'S-Town'
“I’ve written hundreds and hundreds of stories about very bad people,” says Los Angeles Times journalist Christopher Goffard, host of the newspaper’s first podcast, Dirty John. “I’ve been a reporter for 20 years … but there’s something about this guy, John Meehan, that chills me, that gets under my skin …
Read More »Kip Moore, Wade Bowen, Randy Rogers Combine for Joint Tour
Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen’s musical partnership is well-chronicled, with 2017 marking the 10th anniversary of the Texas country pair’s Hold My Beer and Watch This Tour. The two singers always like getting more friends in on the action, so this December they’ll be hitting the road for a run …
Read More »Kid Rock on Senate Run: 'F–k No'
Kid Rock said he will not run for Senate during an appearance on The Howard Stern Show Tuesday, according to The Detroit Free Press. After playing coy about his political ambitions for months, Kid Rock admitted that it was all a ploy to build hype for his new album, Sweet …
Read More »See Keith Urban, Chris Janson's Electrifying Opry Performance of 'Sold'
Like a pair of rapid-talking auctioneers, Keith Urban and Chris Janson tackled a cover of John Michael Montgomery’s “Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident”) at the Grand Ole Opry earlier this month. The one-off performance took place on October 10th, while both singers were part of a stacked Opry bill …
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