With his bottle-blond mullet, tacky shirts, and this-close-to-offensive catchy songs (like “Pretty Woman Lover”), zookeeper-country singer Joe Exotic looks and sounds like he emerged from country’s less-polished past. And for that, as quarantined viewers who are as captive as Exotic’s own lions and tigers, we’re oh-so grateful. The narcissistic star …
Read More »How the Luck Reunion Pulled Off Its Most Emotional Year Yet – With No Crowd
The eighth annual Luck Reunion was supposed to draw around 4,000 people to Willie Nelson’s Texas ranch this week, with a lineup that included Nelson, Lucinda Williams, John Prine, Margo Price, Nathaniel Rateliff, and more. Those plans, of course, went out the window due to COVID-19. Instead of canceling altogether, …
Read More »Donald Glover Surprise Releases Collection of New Music
Update: Childish Gambino officially released his new album 3.15.20 – the date the album originally appeared at Donald Glover Presents – early Sunday. Stream the album as one continuous track above, or as a 12-song album on streaming services. Other than “Algorythm” and “Time,” the rest of the album’s songs …
Read More »'SNL': Coronavirus Briefing Turns Into Democratic Debate in Cold Open
Saturday Night Live returned from its two-week hiatus to tackle the most pressing issue to emerge in recent weeks, the coronavirus, with the show’s Vice President Mike Pence leading a press conference on the spreading illness that gets hijacked by the remaining Democratic presidential candidates. “Most of you know me …
Read More »The Rolling Stones Behind the Scenes: Intimate Photos From Bill Wyman's Personal Archive
“I took photos long before I was a musician,” former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman tells Rolling Stone. “I started out using an old Brownie box camera my uncle Jack Jeffrey gave me as a boy.” Photography followed Wyman into his music career (“I find photography and music similar mathematically,” …
Read More »Neil Young Reverses 2020 Tour Stance, Planning Crazy Horse Trek
Less than a week after telling fans to “not expect anything” regarding future concerts, Neil Young has announced plans to take Crazy Horse on a tour across America. There are no dates yet, but the tour will hit vintage arenas and bypass newer ones completely. “Many of the old places …
Read More »Paul English, Willie Nelson's Longtime Drummer, Dead at 87
Paul English, Willie Nelson‘s longtime drummer who was immortalized in Nelson’s road song “Me and Paul,” has died at 87 following a bout with pneumonia. Nelson’s publicist confirmed English’s death to Rolling Stone. Born in 1932 in Vernon, Texas, English joined Nelson’s Family Band in 1966 and continued to perform …
Read More »Lil Wayne Sounds Like the Best Rapper Alive Again on 'Mahogany' and 'Mama Mia'
For 403 seconds near the start of his new album, Lil Wayne makes Funeral feel like a transmission from the past. As long as “Mahogany” and “Mama Mia” are playing, it’s still 2006, the music industry is crumbling, and within the cinders of Cash Money is a young man who’s …
Read More »Watch Elizabeth Warren Corner Chief Justice Roberts, Forcing Him to Question Aloud His Own Legitimacy
Sen. Elizabeth Warren submitted a question during President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial about the legitimacy of the chief justice, the Supreme Court and the Constitution, leaving the chief justice no choice but to read it aloud. On Thursday while presiding over impeachment, Chief Justice John Roberts read the Democratic presidential …
Read More »Bernie Sanders Leads Trump, All 2020 Candidates in Donations From Active-Duty Troops
No other 2020 candidate for president, including Donald Trump, can come close to matching Bernie Sanders’ level of support among members of the U.S. military, to go by the most recent campaign finance data from the Federal Election Commission. Soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines have donated a total of $185,625 …
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