When Spotify asked Vancouver-based indie band Calpurnia to record a cover song, their top choice – and their only choice – was the Weezer classic “Say It Ain’t So.” It was the only song all four of them knew how to play, which they learned at rock camp four years …
Read More »
WASHINGTON —Not 24 hours after Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss graphic allegations of sexual assault, a hearing that was every bit as gripping and infuriating and historic as Anita Hill’s testimony 27 years earlier, senators returned to Capitol Hill …
Read More »
Lady Gaga unveiled her powerful duet with Bradley Cooper, “Shallow,” from their upcoming movie, A Star Is Born. “Shallow” is a slow-burning ballad that finds Cooper and Gaga trading verses over a twinkling acoustic guitar and a resonant piano. The track moves steadily towards a potent Gaga vocal run that …
Read More »
Kelsea Ballerini and the Chainsmokers took their freshly minted collaboration up a notch this week when they appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to give “This Feeling” its first-ever live performance. Released September 21st, “This Feeling” is half love song, half mantra for following your heart wherever it may lead. …
Read More »
Former Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing recalls having a revelation at some point in the mid-Seventies. “I looked across at my bandmates and thought, ‘What the hell are they wearing?’” he tells Rolling Stone with a hearty laugh. At the time, the group was decking themselves out in frilly, silken …
Read More »
A review of tonight’s Better Call Saul coming up just as soon as I’ve got crawdads in my pants… “Let’s do it again.” -Kim Prequels are not generally designed to feature big mysteries. With this one, we know exactly what Jimmy McGill will become, and how the stories of Mike …
Read More »
Over two years after news leaked that Dr. Dre was working on a secret Apple Music scripted series called Vital Signs, the project’s fate has been revealed: Apple CEO Tim Cook shelved the project due to its graphic depictions of violence, sex and drug use. The Wall Street Journal reports …
Read More »
Liam Payne and French Montana go on a nighttime adventure through New York City in the video for “First Time.” The simmering R&B collaboration is the lead single off Payne’s debut EP of the same name. The simmering R&B single has Payne and French Montana in peak seduction mode, cooing …
Read More »
If you want to scare the kiddies but still keep them giggling, Jack Black is your man. This peerless comic actor can do more with an arched eyebrow than a crazy-car stuffed with clowns, and it’s that old Black magic that ignites The House With a Clock in Its Walls, …
Read More »
Kaley Cuoco and Joel McHale joined James Corden to act out an entire scene from a fake soap opera using only Drake lyrics on Wednesday. The skit’s plot, to the extent that there is one, revolves around a love triangle. Corden, a doctor, appears to have fallen for his patient, …
Read More »