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 »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 »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 »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 »See Dean Blunt Endure Amusement Park in Panda Bear's 'Token' Video
U.K. artist Dean Blunt endures the sensory explosion that is an amusement park in the new video for Panda Bear‘s “Token,” the latest single off his upcoming album Buoys. As the video’s preface explains, Blunt, as the director of the “Token” video, originally planned to make something Toy Story-inspired for …
Read More »'Into The Spider-Verse' (a Great Movie) Just Sent 'Sunflower' (a Great Song) to Number One
There are some indisputable facts regarding this year’sSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. First,of the six Spider-Man movies since 2002, Spider-Verse is the best. In a year where Black Panther is vying a Best Picture Oscar and Infinity War is practically printing money, Spider-Verse is still the superior superhero movie of the …
Read More »See Jesse McCartney as Hard-Drinking Woman in New Video for 'Wasted'
Pop star and actor Jesse McCartney performs as four different characters – a stylish playboy, a tough-guy biker, a distinguished butler and a boozing older woman – in his soap opera parody video for “Wasted.” Director Jason Lester models the clip after vintage daytime serials, offering melodramatic close-ups, intentionally cheesy …
Read More »Two Dallas Radio Stations Ban R. Kelly Following Lifetime Docuseries
Two prominent Dallas radio stations publicly announced that they will no longer support R. Kelly‘s music on Monday. The decision from K104, which plays a mixture of contemporary hip-hop and R&B, and KRNB, which plays R&B reaching back to the Nineties, came in the wake of the six-part docuseries Surviving …
Read More »See Metallica Play Country Version of 'Four Horsemen'
Metallica played a twangy country arrangement of “The Four Horsemen” on acoustic instruments at a special gig for charity late last year. In the just-released clip of the performance, James Hetfield amped up the grit in his voice as he sang, “Choose your fate and die,” while Kirk Hammett used …
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