The Who played their first concert since the pandemic began at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Friday evening. It was an all-acoustic charity gig to benefit the Teenage Cancer Trust that featured a unique lineup of backing musicians, an oddball setlist, more than few stops and starts, and minimal preparation. …
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Cardi B is the victor in yet another libel lawsuit – this time winning after a New York judge ruled Friday that the three Suffolk County beachgoers suing the “WAP” artist, her sister and a third woman over a caught-on-video verbal dispute had “failed to sufficiently plead” their case. Plaintiffs …
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Ginni Thomas, the right-wing activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pushed White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to work to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to texts obtained by the Jan. 6 committee. CNN first reported that the committee was in possession of …
Read More »'God Has Got You': Cory Booker's Emotional Speech Brings Ketanji Brown Jackson to Tears
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) delivered an impassioned speech Wednesday during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for Ketanji Brown Jackson, eliciting a visibly emotional response from the Supreme Court nominee who is poised to become the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s highest court. Throughout his speech, Booker repeatedly …
Read More »Jack White Impersonates Beck, as Beck Fetches His Nail Clippers at Nashville Show
Jack White surprised fans at Beck‘s show at the Basement East in Nashville last night. Pretending to be Beck, White said he would play some of his favorite songs. “Hello ladies and gentlemen, I’m Beck,” White proclaimed. “I’m gonna play you one of my favorite songs from the 1990s that …
Read More »You Have to Watch Rosalía's Trippy 'Motomami' Performance on Your Phone
Rosalía‘s TikTok performance in celebration of her album Motomami is a wild ride. The trippy, campy, strange video is now available to watch on YouTube — and it’s meant to be viewed from a mobile device since the camera spins from a wide view to a vertical view and flips …
Read More »The Righteous, Riotous Return of 'Atlanta'
On March 29, 2018, FX premiered an episode of Atlanta called “Barbershop,” in which rising rap star Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles (Brian Tyree Henry) goes through a series of ridiculous ordeals on behalf of his talkative con man of a barber. Seven nights later, Atlanta gave us “Teddy Perkins,” a …
Read More »Carrie Underwood Exacts Mental Revenge in New Song 'Ghost Story'
Carrie Underwood is a presence whose memory torments an ex-lover in the new song “Ghost Story,” the country star’s first solo release since her 2021 religious album My Savior. Underwood’s previous secular album Cry Pretty was released in 2018. Written by frequent Underwood collaborator David Garcia with Josh Kear and …
Read More »The Smile Unearth Unreleased Radiohead Gem 'Skrting on the Surface' for New Single
The Smile unearth the unreleased Radiohead gem “Skrting on the Surface” for the latest single from the Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood side project. The track dates back to Radiohead’s In Rainbows sessions and was performed live a handful of times by both that band and Yorke’s Atoms for Peace …
Read More »They Were Planning Ukraine's Biggest Music Festival. Now They're Trying to Save Lives
Atlas Festival calls itself the biggest music festival in the Ukraine. The annual Kyiv-based festival had been gearing up for what would be its first full-scale event since the pandemic shuttered live music, with a lineup set to include Twenty One Pilots, Alt-J, Placebo and Two Door Cinema Club. But …
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