The Walkmen ended a decade of “extreme hiatus” Tuesday with a performance of “The Rat” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. The performance opened with the Bows + Arrows song’s tremulous guitars and carnival organ rattles as frontman Hamilton Leithauser keens, “You’ve got a neeerve to be asking a …
Read More »When Are Fake Songs Better Than Real Ones?
Critics, including our own Alan Sepinwall, weren’t crazy about Daisy Jones & the Six, Amazon Prime’s now-concluded adaptation of the best-selling faux-oral-history novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid. But the Fleetwood Mac-meets-Almost Famous fashion, the charisma of its stars, and perhaps most of all, the music, led many fans — particularly …
Read More »'The Mandalorian' Season 3 Finale's Pedro Pascal and Baby Yoda Surprise
THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episode of The Mandalorian, “The Return.” A funny thing happens in the last 10 minutes of The Mandalorian Season Three: Din Djarin seems to be the central character again. Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, and company spent much of this season treating the show’s …
Read More »Blackpink Belt Their Hits, Try to Break More World Records on 'Carpool Karaoke'
Blackpink buckled up for some music and world record attempts with James Corden on the latest installment of The Late Late Show’s “Carpool Karaoke.” Appearing on the segment in between their historic headlining sets at Coachella, the drive featured renditions of three of Blackpink‘s own hits, “Pink Venom,” “Ddu-Du Ddu-Du,” …
Read More »Foo Fighters Return With New Album 'But Here We Are'
After teasing their return to new music and lining up headlining festival gigs, Foo Fighters have announced that their new album But Here We Are — the band’s first album since the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins — will arrive in June. Ahead of the LP’s June 2nd release, Dave …
Read More »J-Hope Officially Enlists in South Korean Military, Becomes Second BTS Member to Serve
J-Hope became the second member of K-pop sensationBTSto join the Korean military on Tuesday. The singer, born Jung Ho-seok, was reported arriving at boot camp at Wongju, east of Seoul, and is expected to begin five weeks of basic training there. Hybe Corp., the parent company of BTS’ management agency …
Read More »'The Diplomat' Gives Keri Russell the Meaty Post-'Americans' Role She Deserves
A surprising thing has happened over the last few weeks: The Night Agent became one of the 10 most-watched Netflix series of all time. This isn’t a knock on the spy-thriller, which features the usual solid craftsmanship of The Shield creator Shawn Ryan, a brisk pace, and some likable lead …
Read More »Jonas Brothers Bring the 'Waffle House' to the 'Tonight Show'
The Jonas Brothers took to the Tonight Show stairwell on Tuesday to perform an acoustic version of their new single “Waffle House” with The Roots. The “Musical Stairs” segment featured Mark Kelley on cello, “Captain” Kirk Douglas and Kevin Jonas on guitar, as Nick and Joe Jonas leading vocals. The …
Read More »Kimmel Criticizes Dominion for Sparing Fox News From Public Reckoning
Fox News paidDominion Voting Systems $787.5 million in a landmark settlement in which Dominion sued the network for airing false claims about the 2020 presidential election. As part of the settlement, Fox will not have to apologize or even acknowledge that it promoted false claims about the voting-machine company rigging …
Read More »Sufjan Stevens Previews 'Reflections' Ballet Score Album With 'Ekstasis'
The music Sufjan Stevens composed for a Justin Peck-choreographed ballet will get an official studio album release with Reflections on May 19. On Tuesday, Stevens announced the release of the project performed by Timo Andres and Conor Hanick, and dropped its first single “Ekstasis.” “Having two of them at my …
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