Country newcomers and seasoned vets are headed to Nashville for an end of year country music celebration. Luke Bryan, Shaboozey, Lainey Wilson, and Post Malone are the latest to join the lineup of New Year’s Eve: Nashville’s Big Bash, CBS announced Wednesday. Tyler Hubbard, Miranda Lambert, Luke Combs, Eric Church, …
Read More »'Kraven the Hunter' Is Its Own Self-Inflicted Killshot
A PSA for folks who don’t have 60-plus years of Spider-Man comic-book history at their immediate beck and call: Kraven the Hunter was one of the webslinger’s earliest supervillains, having made his first appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man #15. Created by Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, he’s a big-game …
Read More »'The Golden Bachelor' Gerry Turner Reveals Bone Marrow Cancer Diagnosis
Gerry Turner, the septuagenarian who starred on the premiere season of The Golden Bachelor, revealed in a new interview that he was diagnosed with a form of bone marrow cancer earlier this year, a diagnosis that contributed to his divorce from Theresa Nist, the winner of the reality dating series. …
Read More »Benjamin Booker Blends the Beautiful and Sinister on 'Same Kind of Lonely'
Benjamin Booker is back with another new song, “Same Kind of Lonely,” from his forthcoming first album in seven years, Lower, out early next year. “Same Kind of Lonely” is balanced deftly between the serene and the unsettling, with fuzz-bomb guitars rushing beneath the tender hush of Booker’s voice. Then …
Read More »Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams to Recreate 'Blood on the Tracks' at 50th Anniversary Show
Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams, and many other musicians will recreate Bob Dylan‘s 1975 masterpiece Blood on the Tracks onstage at a 50th anniversary concert next month, joined by three of the album’s original musicians. The Jan. 24 tribute concert, Shelter From the Storm, is organized by the Bob Dylan Center …
Read More »How SahBabii Made One of the Year's Best Rap Albums by Trusting His Instincts
At 27, Atlanta-based rapper SahBabii has already been at the forefront of hip-hop’s younger generation for close to a decade. Early hits like 2017’s “Pull Up Wit ah Stick” and “Marsupial Superstars” established the rapper, born Saaheem Malik Valdery, as one of his era’s foremost innovators. In 2021, after a …
Read More »Questlove's Sly Stone Documentary to Premiere at 2025 Sundance
New documentaries about Selena, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Jeff Buckley, and Sly Stone are among the films competing at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival next month. Amir “Questlove” Thompson’s long-in-the-works Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) — the follow-up to the Roots drummer’s Oscar-winning directorial debut Summer …
Read More »Elton John Says Legalizing Weed Is 'One of the Greatest Mistakes'
Elton John, who has been sober since 1990, believes marijuana never should’ve been legalized. “I maintain that it’s addictive,” he said in a new interview with Time, which named him Icon of the Year. “It leads to other drugs. And when you’re stoned —and I’ve been stoned —you don’t think …
Read More »Advocacy Group Calls B.S. on Nancy Mace's Claim That She Was Assaulted in Capitol
A man has been arrested, and Nancy Mace is wearing a wrist brace and shoulder sling after the South Carolina congresswoman said she was “physically accosted” in a Capitol office building on Tuesday afternoon. Mace claims she was “was physically accosted at the Capitol” by “a pro-tr*ns man.” “One new …
Read More »Hayley Kiyoko to Make Directorial Debut With 'Girls Like Girls' Feature
It’s time for the disciples to gather —because Lesbian Jesus is finally coming back to people’s screens. Pop star Hayley Kiyoko will make her directorial debut with her Girls Like Girls film, which was acquired this week by Focus Features. The film, which Kiyoko also co-wrote, is loosely based on …
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