Lizzo stormed The Ellen DeGeneres Show with an exhilarating performance of her latest single “Juice” Tuesday. The performance marked the first time Lizzo has performed the song on television and she aptly made the most of the occasion. As Lizzo breathlessly tore through the song’s delightful punchlines – “David, you …
Read More »El Chapo Trial: Alleged Kingpin Will Not Testify on Own Behalf
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, who is facing a 17-count indictment in Brooklyn Federal Court that could send him to jail for life, announced Monday that the he will not be testifying on his own behalf. Speaking to the court for the first time, Guzmán stood at the defense table to …
Read More »'True Detective' Recap: Pride and Prejudice
You might say that tonight’s episode of True Detective — “The Hour and the Day” — goes out with a bang. Hunted by a lynch mob that wrongfully (and racist-ly) believes him to be a child-killer, Brett “Trashman” Woodard booby-traps his home using techniques he learned in ‘Nam. The landmine …
Read More »Easton Corbin Praises Alan Jackson, John Deere in New 'Somebody's Gotta Be Country'
Easton Corbin first made his mark nearly 10 years ago with “A Little More Country Than That,” which earned comparisons to George Strait and envisioned “country” to represent faithfulness and honor above all the usual signifiers. Corbin returns to that thematic territory for the newly released “Somebody’s Gotta Be Country,” …
Read More »Watch Backstreet Boys, Jimmy Fallon Cluck 'Everybody (Backstreet's Back)' Dressed as Chickens
Jimmy Fallon and the Backstreet Boys, billed as the “Bawkstreet Boys,” dressed as chickens and clucked “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” on Thursday’s Tonight Show. The sketch is as advertised: The boy band and the late-night host donned chicken suits and clucked out an almost a cappella version of the 1997 hit …
Read More »Roxy Music's Andy Mackay Talks Rock Hall Reunion Odds: 'We're Quite Optimistic'
Roxy Music saxophonist Andy Mackay was driving down to England’s West Country in mid-December when he got a text from Bryan Ferry saying that they’d been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “I knew we had been nominated,” says Mackay. “But I always felt that we were …
Read More »'The Kid Who Would Be King' Review: Harry Potter Meets Harryhausen
Let’s say you’re a kid, growing up in England’s middle-class suburbs circa right now. You’re not popular — in fact, it’s safe to say that most of your fellow students would characterize you as a dork, a geek, possibly a dweeb … and that’s if they’re being polite. But you’re …
Read More »Jimi Hendrix 'Electric Church' Concert Film Headed to Theaters
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church, which documents the legendary guitarist’s July 4th, 1970 performance at the Atlanta International Pop Festival, will be screened in select movie theaters around the world starting January 31st. The film premiered on Showtime in 2015, and was accompanied by a live album, Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival, …
Read More »Chris Brown Detained in Paris Following Rape Accusation
Chris Brown has been detained in Paris, France, following a rape accusation, Associated Press reports. He was detained on Monday and remains in custody on Tuesday due to potential charges of aggravated rape and drug offenses. Two other people, including Brown’s bodyguard, have also been detained. In the complaint (per …
Read More »The 'Broad City' Gals Say Goodbye
Ciao, Broad City. After a brilliant and gut-busting run, Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson are heading into the final season of their groundbreaking Comedy Central show about two twentysomething BFFs living large in NYC, helping each other explore the worlds of pegging, FOMO and going to Whole Foods on drugs. …
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