Megadeth‘s Dave Mustaine invited his daughter Electra on stage to sing “À Tout le Monde” at the metal outfit’s show in Paris Tuesday. A fan-shot video captured the performance, which found Electra strolling on stage to join her father as he sang the first verse of the band’s 1994 classic. …
Read More »Ilana Glazer Talks Comedy Special, Horny 4 Tha Polls Stand-Up Tour on 'Daily Show'
Former Broad City star Ilana Glazer returned to Comedy Central Tuesday to talk about her politically charged stand-up tour and comedy special on The Daily Show. The comedian first discussed the fairly dire title of her new Amazon Prime stand-up special, The Planet Is Burning. “It is my lens in …
Read More »Watch Sting Perform With 'The Last Ship' Cast on 'Corden'
Sting took the stage with the cast of The Last Ship on The Late Late Show to perform the song by the same name from the hit musical. The show — which originated in the U.K. before moving to Broadway and opened at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles earlier …
Read More »Demi Lovato Premieres 'Anyone' at the Grammys
Demi Lovato performed live for the first time in nearly two years at the 62nd Grammy Awards on Sunday. She debuted a new song, “Anyone,” which she wrote and recorded just four days before suffering an overdose in July 2018. The single will reportedly be included on Lovato’s upcoming album. …
Read More »Pompeo Cursed Out National Security Reporter, Asked Her to Find Ukraine on a Wordless Map, She Did
Following a testy interview, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dropped F-bombs at an interviewer and also questioned her knowledge about the region she was asking him about. NPR National Security Reporter Mary Louise Kelly pressed Pompeo on Friday about whether he owed the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, …
Read More »At Work With John Janick, CEO of Interscope Records
Coming out of a decade of upheaval, the music business has never been such a challenging — or thrilling — place to work. What does a career in music look like in 2020? How do decision makers balance the traditional philosophies of their industry with new responsibilities, the endless flood …
Read More »Are Music Companies Hiring Enough People Who Think Differently?
Florence Welch doesn’t find numbers easy. The Florence and the Machine star was diagnosed with both dyslexia and dyscalculia in her youth — two sets of “learning difficulties,” as she often heard them described, inaccurately, during her school years. As she describes in the foreword to “Creative Differences” — a …
Read More »Metallica's Kirk Hammett on Napster: 'We Didn't Make a Difference'
Although Metallica were the most outspoken about the dangers of file-sharing with the advent of Napster — garnering a lot of bad press for allegedly wanting to sue their fans — Kirk Hammett now says the group had no effect on the outcome of the crisis. “We didn’t make a …
Read More »Flashback: Rush Resurrect 1975's 'Anthem' at Kickoff of Final Tour
The news that Neil Peart died of brain cancer on January 7th is still sending waves of shock and grief throughout the rock community. Nobody but his tightest circle of friends knew he was sick, making this one of the more unexpected rock deaths in recent memory. The outpouring of …
Read More »Pearl Jam Detail Tracklist for New Album 'Gigaton'
Pearl Jam revealed the tracklist for their upcoming 11th studio album, Gigaton. The long-awaited 12-track LP, which follows 2013’s Lightning Bolt, features upcoming single “Dance of the Clairvoyants.” Notably, it does not include their most recent song, 2018’s “Can’t Deny Me,” released as part of their Ten Club fan club. …
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