Days after completing a short Canadian tour, Rosanne Cash has announced a longer string of international dates for the spring and summer. Kicking off March 27th at New York City’s Lincoln Center, the 23-show run will bring Cash across the entirety of the U.S., with a handful of European shows …
Read More »'The Leisure Seeker': Road Movie Drives Acting Legends Into a Ditch
Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland can do anything – except, perhaps, save this sentimental drool bucket of senior cinema. It’s not their fault: The Leisure Seeker is a road movie that lets its formidable stars down by shamelessly pandering and following a predictable path to been-there-seen-that. In his first English-language …
Read More »Carole King's Piano Headed to Auction
Carole King‘s personal piano will be auctioned off as part of the Exceptional Sale at Christie’s, set to take place April 20th in New York City. King has owned the 1924 model “M” Steinway piano for decades and used it to compose several hits including “Been to Canaan” and “Sweet …
Read More »Herbie Hancock Taps Kendrick Lamar, Thundercat for New Album
Herbie Hancock‘s next album will feature an array of guests including Kendrick Lamar, Thundercat, Flying Lotus and Snoop Dogg, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports. “I’m learning a lot from the young people I’m working with,” Hancock said. He added, “I never want to stop learning. And I’m not even thinking …
Read More »Slayer Announce Second North American Leg of Final Tour
Slayer will embark on the second leg of their final world tour on July 26th. The band plans to play 20 additional dates around the U.S. and Canada with support from Lamb of God, Anthrax, Testament and Napalm Death. In January, Slayer announced plans to tour once more together before …
Read More »Flashback: Karen Carpenter Takes Country Music to the White House
Before it was titled “adult contemporary,” the format catering to an older crowd searching their AM radio dial for softer sounds among the psychedelic pop and rock of the late Sixties was known as “easy listening.”Alongside singers such as Jack Jones and Petula Clark, country-pop crossover artists including Glen Campbell …
Read More »Best TV Shows to See in March: 'Atlanta,' 'The Americans,' Roseanne 2.0
March is looking like a good month for FX: The Americans will starttying a bloody ribbon on its six-year run and Atlanta obliterates any doubts regarding a sophomore slump in its second season. Meanwhile, HBO’s got a cult favorite in the making with Bill Hader playing gun-for-fire, Roseanne reboots for …
Read More »See Evan Rachel Wood Play #MeToo-Themed 'Guess Who' in Rise PSA
Westworld starEvan Rachel Wood and Star Wars’Kelly Marie Tran play Guess Who? – the #MeToo edition – in a new public service announcement for civil rights nonprofit, Rise, produced by the comedy website Funny Or Die on Tuesday. The satirical PSAis a throwback to the early Nineties commercials for the …
Read More »Watch John Oliver Slam Trump's 'Terrible' Plan to Arm Teachers With Guns
John Oliver criticized President Trump‘s “clearly terrible idea” of arming public school teachers in the wake of the Parkland, Florida school shootingon Sunday’s Last Week Tonight. “There are clearly multiple issues with the idea of arming teachers – from the fact that it is not their job to the fact …
Read More »'Daily Show''s Michelle Wolf to Host White House Correspondents' Dinner
Comedian and Daily Show contributor Michelle Wolf will host the 2018 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner,The New York Timesreports. It is unclear whether President Donald Trump will attend the event on April 28th. Wolf follows a string ofDaily Showalums who hosted the Corespondents’ dinner, includingHasan Minhaj, Larry Wilmore and Stephen …
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