Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon revived their quirky TV host characters Cord Hosenbeck and Tish Cattigan on The Tonight Show Wednesday, serenading Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ahead of their royal nuptials. The comedians are set to provide live coverage of the Royal Wedding, but as they told Jimmy Fallon, …
Read More »Jason Isbell Leads 2018 Americana Awards Nominations
The list of nominees for the 2018 Americana Music Association’s Honors & Awards has been revealed and genre favorites Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell, and Margo Price feature prominently among the candidates. All three have had a blockbuster run over the past 12 months, starting with the release of Isbell and …
Read More »Metallica's Kirk Hammett: 'We're Still Right' About Suing Napster
Metallica‘s 2000 lawsuit against Napster, the pioneering and controversial file-sharing service, epitomized a disoriented music industry in the new millennium. And while some fans criticized the metal band for their legal action, lead guitarist Kirk Hammett maintains that they made the right choice. “The whole Napster thing – it didn’t …
Read More »Hear Lamb of God's Raging Bad Brains Cover, 'I Against I'
Lamb of God add some chunky metal heft to Bad Brains‘ 1986 hardcore classic “I Against I.” The track will appear on the band’s upcoming covers album, Legion XX, which they’re putting out under their original name, Burn the Priest. The record, due out next Friday, also contains caffeinated interpretations …
Read More »'Breaking In': Gabrielle Union Trapped In One Broken Movie
Just in time for Mother’s Day, Breaking In gifts moms everywhere with a thrill-free, home-invasion thriller about a mom (Gabrielle Union) who’ll stop at nothing to keep four bad guys from killing her two kids. That’s the plot, folks. It never goes any deeper than that, or gets any less …
Read More »Hear Lori McKenna's Tender New Song 'People Get Old'
Singer-songwriter Lori McKenna, who earned back-to-back Grammy awards for Best Country Song with “Girl Crush” in 2016 followed by “Humble and Kind” in 2017, has not only scored hits for Little Big Town, Tim McGraw and dozens of others (including Carrie Underwood’s current single, “Cry Pretty”), she has also released …
Read More »J Balvin's Latin Pop Crusade
It’s a frosty mid-February night in New York, and a group of Latin titans is holding a summit inside a sold-out Radio City Music Hall. Luis Fonsi, Zion and Lennox, and others maintain a consistent, romantic groove throughout the show, which is part of a concert series co-produced by Univision, …
Read More »Watch Dierks Bentley Praise Human Resilience in 'Living' Video
Dierks Bentley unveils another inspirational true-life story with the just-released video for “Living.” A gloriously panoramic depiction of the natural world, shot in Colorado, “Living” is the second in a four-part series of clips for which Bentley partnered with Apple Music to depict true stories of resilience, persistence and hope. …
Read More »New Orleans Jazz Fest 2018: David Fricke's Favorite Sets
It was a sobering way to enter the weekend. On April 26th, the day before the 49th annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival opened at the Fair Grounds race track, the news broke around town of the death of Charles Neville, the saxophonist and second eldest of the Neville …
Read More »All-American Nazis: Inside the Rise of Fascist Youth in the U.S.
Andrew Oneschuk and Jeremy Himmelman had been living in Tampa, Florida, for two weeks when, on Friday, May 19th, 2017, their roommate Devon Arthurs picked up an AK-47 rifle and shot them at close range. Oneschuk had just turned 18. Himmelman was 22. They’d been staying in a lush gated …
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