Michelle Obama showed her love for husband Barack Obama – as well as her eclectic musical tastes – Wednesday when she shared a special Valentine’s Day playlist she created just for him. The Spotify playlist, which the former first lady titled “Forever Love,” is made up of soul/R&B classics like …
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There is a revolt brewing in West Virginia politics. Last Friday Lissa Lucas, an author and celebrated backyard chicken farmer from Cairo, in the northwestern part of the state, brought the fight to the floor of the state capitol. The House of Delegates Judiciary Committee was hearing comments on House …
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Justin Timberlake went from the Super Bowl halftime show to the top of the Billboard 200 as the singer’s new album Man of the Woods opened at Number One with the best-selling week of 2018 so far. Man of the Woods opened with 293,000 total copies, including 242,000 traditional copies, …
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Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. explores the joy and heartbreak of love in the new video for “Muted Beatings.” The track will appear on the musician’s next solo album, Francis Trouble, out March 9th via Red Bull Records. Fraser Rigg directed the video, which stars Hammond Jr. and actress Portia …
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Natalie Portman has been a vocal proponent of the “Time’s Up” initiative, and in a new interview with Porter magazine, she explained that she’s been diving more and more into her own past experiences as a result of it. “I went from thinking, ‘I don’t have a story’ to ‘Oh, …
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Rae Sremmurd‘s third album, Sr3mm, appears to be imminent as the Mississippi brothers released the lead single off forthcoming album, “T’d Up.” They debuted the song at Super Bowl Live over the weekend. Swae Lee co-produced the single alongside Metro Boomin. The song carries the same syrup-y, sleepy beat of …
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Blake Shelton and his fellow Voice coaching staff have a little fun with country cliches – and each of their own public personas – in a new commercial set to air during Sunday’s Super Bowl LII. Promoting the show’s new season and set on the front porch of “Blake’s Cabin,” …
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Neil Young has kept a pretty low profile over the past year, but it turns out that at least for some of that time he was working on a western movie,Paradox,that will premiere at South By Southwest in March. The film was directed by Daryl Hannah. Young stars alongside Willie …
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Megadeth‘s skull-faced mascot Vic Rattlehead, katana sword in hand, combs a cemetery in search of a captive boy in the band’s new video for “Lying in State,” an especially bleak cut off their 2016 album Dystopia. The song’s lyrics seem to be politically charged, with Dave Mustaine singing, “What we …
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Rhiannon Giddens is showing up in a variety of places as 2018 gets into gear, including on the TV show Nashville, where the Music City drama is speeding toward the series finale. Giddens, who won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2017, will spend a sizable portion of the year on stages …
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