So, How Was Your 2020?is a series in which our favorite entertainers answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their year. For Colombian pop star Maluma, 2020 posed an opportunity for reflection – andnew music. His latest album, Papi Juancho,was made while in quarantine. Despite …
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Bob Dylan has played 3,066 concerts since beginning the Never Ending Tour in 1988 and the only one to be officially released in its entirely is his underwhelming MTV Unplugged special in 1994. The vast majority of the remaining 3,065 shows were recorded by fans, and sorting through them can …
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It’s fitting that a song about doing it yourself is the only track in Rolling Stone‘s year-end Top 50 chart to be penned by a single writer. The song in question, Tones and I‘s “Dance Monkey,” was inspired by busking, which is exactly what the Australian artist — born Toni …
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House Democrats plan to introduce an article of impeachment against President Trump as soon as Monday to begin the process of attempting to remove him from office following his supporters’ violence at the Capitol. “It is the hope of Members that the President will immediately resign,” Pelosi said in a …
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President-elect Joe Biden blasted both the rioters who violently stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday and Trump for encouraging them. “Yesterday, in my view was one of the darkest days in the history of our nation — an unprecedented assault on our democracy,” Biden said. The president-elect continued, “What we …
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Democrats will control the U.S. Senate thanks to voters in Georgia First, Rev. Raphael Warnock unseated incumbent appointee Sen. Kelly Loeffler to become the first black American ever elected to statewide office in Georgia and only the eleventh black senator in U.S. history. On Wednesday afternoon, amid the chaos at …
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The Weeknd has released a new video for “Save Your Tears,” a track off his most recent album, After Hours. Directed by Cliqua, the video finds the Weeknd dressed up once again as his After Hours lounge lizard character, his face swollen and bruised, but still delivering an exuberant rendition …
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Gerry Marsden, frontman of the British band Gerry and the Pacemakers and singer on hits like “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” “Ferry Cross the Mersey” and “Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying,” has died at the age of 78. Marsden’s friend Pete Price, a British broadcaster, announced news of the …
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Elvis Costello sends one final kiss-off to this pandemic year with his surprise new song “Farewell, OK 2020,” which the singer dropped on YouTube hours before 2021’s arrival. Costello showcases his rapid-fire wit on the energetic track as the Irish rocker puts the finishing touches on what amounted to a …
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Dave Grohl on Monday expressed a “huge, heartfelt thank you” to supporters of the Save Our Stages Act, which provides approximately $10 billion for independent concert venues amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding is part of a long-delayed economic stimulus bill that President Trump signed into law on Sunday. “The …
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