After the success of her Lady Gaga impression on Saturday Night Live the previous week, Melissa Villaseñor brought back the role for a Family Feud sketch. For the sketch, Kenan Thompson as Steve Harvey hosted an Academy Awards-themed Family Feud featuring guests including Villaseñor’s Gaga, Spike Lee (Don Cheadle), Glenn Close (Kate McKinnon), …
Read More »Hear Previously Unreleased Tom Petty Song 'For Real'
The upcoming Tom Petty two-disc retrospective The Best of Everything is packed with familiar tunes like “American Girl,” “I Won’t Back Down” and “Mary Jane’s Last Dance,” but it wraps up with a song that has never been released or even heard on bootlegs: “For Real.” The song was recorded …
Read More »The National Debt Is Skyrocketing, and Trump Feels Fine
Republicans pride themselves on fiscal responsibility. Or at least they used to. Since President Trump found his way into the party’s bloodstream, conservative lawmakers have only been able to pay lip service to the crisis, which is growing worse despite a robust economy. On Tuesday, the Treasury Department reported that …
Read More »Halsey on 'SNL': 3 Sketches You Have to See
You never know what you’re going to get when an artist primarily known for their musical talents hosts Saturday Night Live. For every Bruno Mars and Ariana Grande (incredible surprises) you get a Blake Shelton or Justin Bieber (expected train wrecks). Halsey ended up somewhere squarely in the middle: You …
Read More »Panic! at the Disco Broke a Common Hit-Making Rule (And Still Succeeded)
For most artists, the likelihood of writing a major hit diminishes over time — pop success is often synonymous with youth. But at the end of January, Panic! at the Disco‘s “High Hopes” was comfortably ensconced at Number Four on the Hot 100, making it the biggest hit of the …
Read More »Nirvana Manager Preps New Book 'Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain'
Danny Goldberg, one of Nirvana‘s managers from 1990 to 1994, documents his stint with the iconic grunge band in a new book, Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain, out April 2nd via HarperCollins’ Ecco Press imprint. Serving the Servant mines Goldberg’s own memories of the songwriter, files that previously haven’t …
Read More »How Worried Should Trump Be When Michael Cohen Testifies?
Michael Cohen is going to testify before Congress whether he wants to or not. A day after President Trump’s former attorney and “fixer” postponed plans to testify before Congress voluntarily on February 7th, the Senate Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena that will effectively force Cohen to testify next month. Though …
Read More »Florida Man Allegedly Fooled Family Into Believing Murdered Wife Was Still Alive
Shelby Svensen admitted to killing his wife Jamie Ivancic — but only after he was arrested for also killing three of her family members. Authorities believe Ivancic may have been dead for as long as a year, but Svensen convinced her friends and family that she was still alive by …
Read More »Flashback: Jimmy Page Plays an Instrumental 'Stairway' in 1988
Jimmy Page kept himself pretty busy in the Eighties. In addition to co-founding the short-lived supergroup XYZ, he composed the soundtrack to Death Wish II, launched the Firm with Free and Bad Company vocalist Paul Rodgers, reunited with Led Zeppelin for a couple high-profile one-offs, and guest-starred with everyone from …
Read More »'Sex Education' Review: Brit Teen-Sex Comedy Covers All the Bases
“Intercourse can be wonderful,” Jean Milburn tells her son Otis. “But it can also cause tremendous pain. And if you’re not careful, sex can destroy lives.” Jean would know. She is a sex therapist and bestselling author on the subject, but her marriage to Otis’ father (also a sex therapist …
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