Last Week Tonight took last weekend off, meaning tonight’s episode was John Oliver’s first since the May 24 Uvalde, Texas, school shooting in which 19 children and two teachers were massacred. So it was no surprise that Oliver devoted the show to the never-ending gun control debate. This time, he …

The Celebrating David Bowie tribute tour is headed back on the road this fall with a lineup that includes Todd Rundgren, Adrian Belew, Spacehog’s Royston Langdon, Fishbone’s Angelo Moore, and Jeffrey Gaines. “David Bowie was a master,” Langdon says in a statement. “It’s impossible to put into words quite how …

Trouble, the Atlanta rapper who collaborated with artists like Drake, Migos and the Weeknd, has died at the age of 34. The rapper born Mariel Semonte Orr’s label Def Jam confirmed his death in a statement Sunday. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the children, loved ones, and fans of …

Kate Bush acknowledged the Stranger Things-fueled resurgence of her 1985 hit “Running Up That Hill” in a rare statement posted on the singer’s website Sunday. Without spoiling the fourth season of the Netflix series, the first single from Bush’s Hounds of Love album plays a key role in a pivotal …

The first attempt to dramatize the Sex Pistols saga came with the release of the Julien Temple’s movie The Great Rock and Roll Swindle in 1980, just two years after the band imploded. The farcical film tells the story from the perspective of manager Malcolm McLaren and is so cartoonish …

On a cold morning in upstate New York, I got arrested while walking down the street with a small Tupperware container filled with heroin. Even though I was at the tail end of my senior year at Cornell University, that outcome should not have been a surprise to anyone who …

Mariah Carey is facing a $20 million lawsuit over her holiday classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” as another songwriter who also released a track with that title has sued the singer for copyright infringement. In the lawsuit filed Friday in a New Orleans federal court, Andy Stone …

The CMA Fest has become the latest country music festival to ban attendees from displaying Confederate flag imagery. Returning from a two-year Covid hiatus, the long-running Nashville event — scheduled for June 9 to 12 throughout the city — quietly made the policy change by listing “Confederate flag imagery of …

Stay cool. Run out the clock. Scare some gun nuts while you can. But don’t worry: this moment will be over soon. That’s the message the Republican Party, Donald Trump, and conservative leaders rapidly coalesced around after a series of mass shootings in recent weeks, including at one at a …

A woman told a Los Angeles courtroom Friday how Bill Cosby forcibly kissed her while on the set of a movie in 1975 when she was 14 years old. The woman, now 61, testified in connection with a civil suit against Cosby accuser Judy Huth, who claims the disgraced comedian …