Jeremy Ivey follows up his 2019 debut The Dream and the Dreamer with the new album Waiting Out the Storm. Due October 9th, it’s inspired by the glut of crises currently affecting the planet and arrives with the first single “Someone Else’s Problem.” A Dylan-like stream of multiple verses about …
Read More »Mary Chapin Carpenter Defies Ageism, Champions Self-Care on Empowering New Album
Mary Chapin Carpenter has a snake problem. The Grammy-winning songwriter has been finding outgrown snakeskins around her home in Virginia and it’s freaking her out. “Just talking about it makes me want to vomit everywhere,” she says, pausing our phone call to get an update from the exterminator. “They say …
Read More »Live Music in Peril as Congress Leaves for Recess Without Covid-19 Relief Bill
The fate of the live-music industry — along with that of millions of other small businesses and unemployed Americans — remains up in the air now that both chambers of Congress have left Washington for their August recess without passing a new Covid-19 relief bill. After weeks of fruitless negotiations …
Read More »Flashback: AC/DC Rip Through 'Moneytalks' at 1991 Monsters of Rock Festival
Earlier this week, we spoke to AC/DC drummer Chris Slade about his first stint in the band in early early Nineties and his surprise return for the Rock or Bust tour of 2015 and 2016. “We always got on as people, so it wasn’t that different,” he said of his …
Read More »See Steve Martin, Martin Short, 'Schitt's Creek' Cast Bring Tears of Joy to Eugene Levy
Since the Newport Beach Film Festival could not be held in public this year, the event organizers surprised its Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Eugene Levy, with a special video. The clip shows Levy watching as his friends and collaborators both praise and lovingly roast him, bringing tears of joy to …
Read More »Want a Record Deal? Call a TikTok Marketing Company
In 2020, a “top 3 biggest pet peeves” TikTok created by a marketing company without a website can land a former high school football player a record deal. “Psycho!” is just the fifth track ever released by the 19-year-old Mason Rupper, a Salt Lake City, Utah native who began writing …
Read More »RS Recommends: John Giorno's 'Great Demon Kings' Memoir
By now, it seems as if we’ve read, seen, and heard about every reaction possible to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, since it’s been the fodder for countless stories meant to explain to later generations why it was a pivotal point in history. But nothing quite prepared me …
Read More »Jude Law, Naomie Harris Confront Creepy Rituals in 'The Third Day' Trailer
Jude Law and Naomie Harris play travelers who end up sucked into the mysterious and terrifying ways of a strange island off the British coast in the new trailer for the limited series, The Third Day, premiering September 14th on HBO. The six-episode series is broken into two parts, “Summer” …
Read More »A Country Song Rode the TikTok Train to Number One in 12 Hours
At the start of this week, Priscilla Block was not widely known. The country-music singer-songwriter had just started to make a name for herself on TikTok with 330,000 followers, but had yet to break into the mainstream. That changed with the release of “Just About Over You” on Wednesday evening. …
Read More »Migos' Takeoff Accused of Rape in Civil Lawsuit
UPDATE (4/2): The Los Angeles County Attorney’s Office will not pursue criminal charges against Takeoff due to insufficient evidence, TMZ reported Friday. However, the Migos rapper is still facing the civil lawsuit stemming from the alleged June 2020 incident. **** A woman has accused Migos rapper Takeoff of rape at …
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