Shaquille O’Neal opened up about the death of his Lakers teammate Kobe Bryant during an emotional TNT tribute to Bryant at the Staples Center on Tuesday. Dwyane Wade, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, Ernie Johnson, Reggie Miller and Jerry West joined the Lakers basketball legend to pay homage. “I haven’t felt …
Read More »See Mick Jagger Portray Scheming Gallery Owner in 'Burnt Orange Heresy' Trailer
Mick Jagger portrays a duplicitous gallery owner in the new trailer for The Burnt Orange Heresy, an art world drama that marks the Rolling Stones singer’s first significant big screen role since 2001’s The Man From Elysian Fields. “Charming and ambitious art critic James Figueras (Claes Bang) has fallen from …
Read More »Alex Winter's Frank Zappa Doc 'Zappa' Premieres at South by Southwest
UPDATE (8/6):Magnolia Pictures announced Thursday that it has acquired the North American rights to Zappa and will premiere the film in theaters and on-demand November 27. *** A little more than four years after filmmaker Alex Winter started making a documentary about rock iconoclast and classical composer Frank Zappa‘s life, …
Read More »Justin Bieber Teases Difficult Road to New Album in Trailer for Docuseries 'Seasons'
Justin Bieber‘s unveiled the first trailer for his new YouTube Originals docuseries, Seasons, set to premiere January 27th at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT. Seasons will boast 10 episodes, with new installments debuting every Monday and Wednesday at noon ET. Per a press release, Seasons chronicles the making of Bieber’s …
Read More »'Black Christmas': A Slasher-Film Remake Updates Its Premise and Strikes Back
There’s a distinct daughters-of-Carol-Clover vibe in the new remake of Black Christmas that hits you almost immediately — a kind of knowingness with a serrated edge that’s different from the meta-winks of something like Scream, or the in-joke camaraderie that happens when horror franchise entries start getting into the double …
Read More »The Many Sounds of Jazz in 2019: A Listener's Guide
Jazz continued to explode in 2019, shooting off in countless directions. There wasn’t one dominant trend, sound, or scene in the genre this year, but there were clear areas of focus, informal constellations of like-minded players and conceptualists: artists who harnessed the energy of rock, devised unusual instrumental textures, pushed …
Read More »Bachata Kings Aventura Announce First U.S. Tour in 10 Years
Aventura broke the Latinternet in April when they dropped “Inmortal” — their first new single since 2009 — on frontman Romeo Santos‘ fourth studio album, Utopia. They did it again in September, when they joined Santos at his solo concert at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium. This Monday morning, the Latino …
Read More »Jason Aldean Addresses Route 91 Survivors at Las Vegas Concert
Jason Aldean performed his first full headlining concert in Las Vegas in more than two years on Friday, kicking off his Ride All Night Vegas three-show residency at the Park MGM. The country star was onstage at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in October 2017 when a gunman opened fire …
Read More »Dolly Parton Sings 'Jolene,' 'Coat of Many Colors' at Her Opry 50th Anniversary Special
Dolly Parton’s 50th anniversary as a Grand Ole Opry member was given the network TV treatment Tuesday night, with the Tennessee native and entertainment icon joined on an NBC special by guests and friends including Emmylou Harris, Toby Keith, Hank Williams Jr., Dierks Bentley, Margo Price, Lady Antebellum, and Chris …
Read More »Eric B. Avoids Prison Sentence Following Arrest on 2002 Warrant
Hip-hop legend Eric B. avoided additional jail time after he was arrested in October on an 17-year-old outstanding warrant, with a judge instead sentencing the producer to probation Friday. The DJ born Eric Barrier spent two weeks in jail earlier this month after he was arrested at the U.S./Canada border. …
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