The walls are starting to close in around Nancy Pelosi. As President Trump and his administration continue to stonewall Democratic efforts to conduct oversight, a growing number of prominent party lawmakers are publicly calling for the the House to begin impeachment proceedings. According to an NBC News tally, over 60 …
Read More »Tanya Tucker Returns With Wistful New Song 'The Wheels of Laredo'
Country legend Tanya Tucker returns this summer with the album While I’m Livin’, which marks her debut for Fantasy Records. Produced by Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings, the album consists mainly of songs penned by Carlile and her longtime collaborators, twin brothers Tim and Phil Hanseroth. “It’s a musical biography …
Read More »Emma Thompson Plays a Fearsome Lady Boss in 'Late Night'
Watching Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling mix it up in Late Night will make you think you’ve died and gone to hilarity heaven. In Kaling’s woke script, the Oscar-winning British actress for Howards End plays Katherine Newbury, a late-night talk show host who takes a drastic step to stop her …
Read More »'Magic: The Gathering' Animated Series Heading to Netflix
Magic: The Gathering, the cult fantasy card game, will soon be the focus of an animated series bound for Netflix. The Russo Brothers, who helmed Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, will oversee the series, with the duo crafting a new storyline revolving around the game’s stocked roster of wizards, …
Read More »Jon Bellion Salutes Miike Snow With Stripped-Down Cover of 'Heart Is Full'
“I love being the most unknown known person,” Jon Bellion triumphantly states on this week’s episode of Spotify Under Cover. The 28-year-old rapper tells the podcast a piece of advice he’s gotten from Andrew Wyatt and Mark Ronson: “It’s okay to be mega-successful and not famous. Because if you’re about …
Read More »HBO's Running With Beto: A Sentimental Scrapbook of O'Rourke's Campaign
Watching Beto O’Rourke’s presidential ambitions unravel in real time, it’s almost hard to remember the captivating magic he conjured during his campaign for the U.S. Senate, which ended just seven months ago. Enthusiasm has fizzled and O’Rourke has sunk in the polls as he struggles to make the case for …
Read More »Ali Wong and Randall Park Are a Romantic Dream Team in 'Always Be My Maybe'
Related: 50 Greatest Romantic Comedies of All Time Let’s hear it for Ali Wong, the Vietnamese-Chinese-American stand-up comic, and Randall Park, born to Korean immigrant parents, for bringing their own hilarious and heartfelt perspective to Always Be My Maybe. It’s an irresistible romantic romp that turns the familiar into something …
Read More »Sturgill Simpson Plays Bluegrass Set at Rare Grand Ole Opry Appearance
Sturgill Simpson made his first appearance at the Grand Ole Opry in four years on Tuesday night, nodding to his Kentucky roots by playing a bluegrass set with an all-star band of pickers that included Sierra Hull on mandolin and Stuart Duncan on fiddle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdX3g34YhWs With his longtime drummer Miles …
Read More »'Rocketman' Review: Elton Gets the Victory-Lap Biopic Treatment
Another rock biography with an Oscar-caliber performance so soon after Bohemian Rhapsody? Critics have been more welcoming to Rocketman, starring an electrifying Taron Egerton as the young, addicted, conflicted, gay and gifted Elton John, than they were to the story of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, which had to settle for …
Read More »Human Switchboard's Punk Rock Classic 'Who's Landing in My Hangar'
Formed in Kent, Ohio during the late Seventies, Human Switchboard was one of a slew of bands who sprung up throughout the benighted American heartland in the wake of punk-rock’s initial explosion in New York and London — from the Gizmos in Indiana to the Embarrassment in Kansas to the …
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