Fresh off a co-starring role in a pair of Fyre documentaries, Ja Rule took center court during halftime of Saturday’s Milwaukee Bucks game for a performance that immediately went viral. The Bucks celebrated a Nineties-themed night at the Fiserv Forum and invited Ja Rule to play halftime, even though, as …
Read More »Norah Jones Announces Experimental New Project 'Begin Again'
Norah Jones’ last album was 2016’s Day Breaks, but she hasn’t stopped putting out music since. Over the last year she has released seven songs with collaborators including Jeff Tweedy and Thomas Bartlett, tracks ranging jazz-soul to psychedelia. “I felt inspired to record and try different things,” Jones says of …
Read More »Watch Weezer's Mr. Rogers-Themed Video 'High as a Kite'
Weezer have a history of adopting classic TV shows in their music videos, from Happy Days to Sesame Street. Add another instantly-memorable video to the list: perhaps inspired by the hit documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Rivers Cuomo decided to dress up as Fred Rogers. Taking stage on the …
Read More »Will We Get to Read Mueller's Final Report? Maybe
Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation into the Trump campaign’s relationship with Russia could soon be coming to a close. CNN reports that, as early as next week, Attorney General William Barr is preparing to announce the probe has ended. Soon after the announcement, Barr will submit to Congress a summary …
Read More »Hear Blues Savior Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram Duet With Buddy Guy on 'Fresh Out'
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, the 20-year-old blues prodigy from Clarksdale, Mississippi who made Rolling Stone’s Hot List last year, is already having a big 2019: He just signed to Alligator Records, with his first album, Kingfish, due in May. He’s also opening for one of his mentors, Buddy Guy, this spring, …
Read More »Marty Stuart Slates 2019 Summer Tour
Country music tradition meets legendary rock & roll as Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives join the Steve Miller Band for a 34-date tour beginning June 13th in Des Moines, Iowa. The trek, which includes stops in New York, Los Angeles and Boston, is currently slated to stretch through August …
Read More »Trailers of the Week: 'Aladdin,' 'Ma,' 'Frozen 2,' 'Yesterday'
When it rains, it pours: Ever since an am-I-blue Will Smith showed up during a commercial in between Grammy no-shows, there’s been a deluge of trailers that have hit the internet. In a little under a week, we got peeks at George Clooney’s upcoming adaptation of Catch-22 for Hulu, the …
Read More »Hear Cardi B, Bruno Mars' Flirtatious New Song 'Please Me'
Cardi B returned to Instagram after a brief hiatus to announce a new collaboration with Bruno Mars. “Please Me” comes on the heels of Cardi B’s first Grammy win. Produced by Bruno Mars and the Stereotypes, the silky, flirty song features Mars emotively pleading for some loving, while Cardi B …
Read More »Andrew McCabe Says the FBI Discussed a Plan to Remove Trump From Office
Update: A spokesperson for McCabe released a statement on Friday claiming that comments McCabe made about discussing the 25th amendment have been “misrepresented.” Original text below. *** Last month, theNew York Timesreported that after President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017, the bureauopened a counterintelligence investigationto determine …
Read More »10 Years Later, Drake to Release 'So Far Gone' to Streaming Services
On the tenth anniversary of So Far Gone, Drake revealed that his seminal and career-launching mixtape will be available on streaming for “the first time ever” on Thursday, February 14. In a lengthy Instagram post, Drake shared an updated graphic of the iconic mixtape cover, its little boy looking down …
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