Update (5/21): Eric Holder was indicted for fatally shooting rap artist Nipsey Hussle and wounding two others in South Los Angeles earlier this year, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced. Holder pleaded not guilty to the charges. Holder’s charges include one count of murder, two counts each of …
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There are precious few American entertainers who have been touring longer than Wanda Jackson. In 1955, 64 years ago, the pioneering country-rockabilly singer was on the road with Elvis Presley, who encouraged the then 18-year-old to move toward rock & roll. Last week, however, Jackson called a halt to her …
Read More »The Zombies Talk Rock Hall Induction: 'Suddenly, We're There Forever'
The Zombies‘ “Time of the Season” hit Number One on the Cashboxsingles chart on March 29th, 1969. Fifty years later to the day, the group appeared at Barclays Center to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “The fact is that we’ve been nominated a few times,” …
Read More »'Veep' Final Season Review: A Goodbye That Stings
What do you do when you’re a political satire at a time when real-life politics have become so cravenly absurd as to defy parody? If you’re Veep, you get meaner. Once, such an idea didn’t seem possible. Veep has long been one of the most vicious comedies in TV history, …
Read More »Formerly Anonymous R. Kelly Accuser Comes Forward With Alleged Assault Details
R. Kelly‘s former hairdresser, Lanita Carter, who was previously identified only as the anonymous “L.C.” in the new criminal charges against the singer, has come out publicly to detail the time Kelly allegedly assaulted her during an interview with CBS This Morning Thursday. The alleged assault took place in 2003 …
Read More »David Guetta, Deadmau5, A$AP Rocky Lead Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas 2019
David Guetta, Deadmau5, A$AP Rocky, Diplo, Steve Aoki, Idris Elba, Tiësto, Armin Van Buuren, Kaskade and Martin Garrix lead the lineup for Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas 2019. The three-day event takes place Friday, May 17th through Sunday, the 19th at the city’s Motor Speedway. Alesso, Zeds Dead, Alison Wonderland, …
Read More »Stacey Abrams: 'I Don't Know Whether This Is the Moment for Me'
Rare is the politician who will say “I don’t know” about something and mean it, including her own future. That is one reason why I despise the question, “Are you running?” It generally wastes the time of journalists everywhere; candidates rarely say “yes,” even if they secretly intend to launch …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Cate Le Bon, 'Daylight Matters'
It’s kind of amazing how much history Cate Le Bon packs into her music. The Welsh indie-rock artist’s great 2016 album Crab Day evoked the incisively loopy post-punk of Pere Ubu and the Red Krayola, the clattering epiphanies of the Raincoats and Lilliput, the Velvet Underground and Seventies Kraut-rock, as …
Read More »See Thrilling First Trailer for Live-Action 'Dora the Explorer' Movie
The first trailer for Dora and the Lost City of Gold,the live-action Dora the Explorer movie, has been revealed. The trailer features Dora adjusting to a regular high school following her life in the jungle. But soon she and her classmates are kidnapped, and Dora is enlisted to help criminals …
Read More »Hear Josh Ritter's Mournful New 'I Still Love You (Now and Then)'
With the bittersweet “I Still Love You (Now and Then)” from his forthcoming LP Fever Breaks, Josh Ritter addresses a former love who still holds in her sway a piece of his shattered heart. Even as he references a new romance in the mournful ballad’s lyrics, he is simultaneously drawn …
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