You wouldn’t say that Saturday Night Live had an off year per se — any season that gave us the sight of Adam Driver crushing stuffed birds with a cane is not a complete flaming trash-heap of a failure. But there was a certain sense of SNL fatigue that started …
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Saturday Night Live‘s final cold open of Season 44 ended on a musical note as the series’ Trump administration sang a tribute to the president to the tune of Queen‘s “Don’t Stop Me Now.” “I’m on cruise control to a second term and there is nothing the Democrats and Congress …
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Sam Hendricks was at an LCD Soundsystem show in 2017 when the idea hit him. Moved by that band’s dancefloor grandeur, Sam wanted to write something for his group, Charly Bliss, “in the same vein as one of [LCD’s] songs, where they take a basic idea and stretch it out …
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Electric Daisy Carnival‘s flagship Las Vegas festival will be livestreamed on four different channels from May 17th through May 19th starting at 6:45 p.m. PT/9:45 p.m. ET daily. Sets and other content from the annual EDM blowout will be available via promotor Insomniac Event’s website, as well as the LiveXLive …
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Ghostface Killah and RZA trade ferocious bars on a new song “On That Sht Again,” which will appear on a new EP to accompany the four-part Showtime docuseries about the Wu-Tang Clan, Of Mics and Men. “On That Sht Again” boasts a classic Wu-Tang-style beat, with piano and string loops …
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Charli XCX and Troye Sivan will co-curate and co-host the first annual Go West Fest, which will take place June 6th at the Wiltern in Los Angeles. The festival, part of LA’s Pride celebrations, will feature a lineup a lineup of LGBTQ+ artists and allies, including Pussy Riot, Dorian Electra, …
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Phantogram announced a North American summer tour that kicks off June 2nd in Camden, New Jersey and wraps with a slot at the Las Vegas festival Life Is Beautiful, scheduled for September 20th through the 22nd. General tickets go on sale Friday, May 17th at 10 a.m. local time. At …
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A lot happens in each episode of Game of Thrones. So every week, we’re drilling down on one memorable scene in particular. Full spoilers for this week’s episode, “The Bells,” coming up. Two weeks ago, Arya Stark singlehandedly saved the world. This week, she nearly became one of thousands of …
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In 1944, one week after the accidental death of his older brother Jack, 12-year-old J.R. Cash answered the altar call and accepted Jesus Christ as his savior at the First Baptist Church, the tiny house of worship his family attended three days a week in Dyess, Arkansas. It was at …
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Less than two weeks after investor Dentsu Aegis announced it was pulling the plug on Woodstock 50, the festival’s organizers fired back at the company on Wednesday through the courts. In a filing with the Supreme Court of New York, Michael Lang, the original festival’s co-founder, and other organizers requested …
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