Charlie Puth took part in Jimmy Fallon’s semi-frequent “Musical Genre Challenge” Tuesday night onThe Tonight Show, in which musicians have to improvise a random combination of a song and a genre it doesn’t belong to. It’s a lot of fun and very silly, considering that Fallon also has to participate …
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Bob Geldof has organized some of the most incredible all-star shows in rock history, including the original Live Aid in 1985 and its follow-up, Live 8, in 2005. But even the man that reunited Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and the Who seemed stunned by what he was seeing near the …
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren‘s (D-Mass.) presidential campaign released documents Sunday detailing the legal consulting work Warren did while she was a professor at Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, and elsewhere. The fees Warren collected over more than two decades amounted to $1.9 million, or approximately $75,000 per year between 1986 and …
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Michael Bloomberg has made clear he doesn’t care about missing the next Democratic debate, or any that may come after that. Confronting his remaining primary opponents, at least those who meet the DNC’s qualifications, doesn’t seem to mean much when he can use a personal fortune well in excess of …
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The tears welled up in my eyes, then spilled onto my cheeks. How was this happening? I don’t cry. At least not when I’m being manipulated to feel a desired emotion. Not at sad moments in movies. Not at pathetic scenes on the sidewalk. Certainly not at ubiquitous heartbreak songs …
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Sharon Van Etten has released a cover of Christmas song “Silent Night.” The singer’s take on the holiday classic was originally recorded for Eric Paschal Johnson’s short filmThe Letter and has a moody, introspective vibe. The song is available exclusively via Amazon Music here. Van Etten recently appeared in an …
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“The world is laughing at us!” Both on the campaign trail and since taking office, President Trump has insisted repeatedly that prior to his presidency the United States was the laughing stock of the world. But now that he’s calling the shots, he’s said, “we’re respected again.” Reality tells a …
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Solange appeared on The Tonight Show to perform a nine-minute medley of songs from her recent album When I Get Home. The evocative performance — which featured a band, two singers and several back-up dancers — included renditions of “Taking on the Light,” “Things I Imagined,” “Down With the Clique,” …
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On the morning of September 29th, six weeks before the 2016 election, Donald Trump was in a conference room at Trump Tower in New York talking to leaders of the religious right about sex-reassignment surgery. In a way, he was bringing about his own transformation. Having quashed the idea that …
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There are no trilled notes, no stirring group musical numbers, no talk of castles on clouds in French-Malian director Ladj Ly’s directorial debut. You will hear, however, the songs of angry men, expressed in a way that drives home the point of their rage and rancor. It is not a …
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