Los Angeles was a playground for Riley Keough as a teenager, which meant that her mother Lisa Marie Presley had her work cut out for her. During an appearance on Call Her Daddy, Keough dug into her vault of secret stories and recalled one particularly chaotic night where she ended …
Read More »Drake Sues UMG for Defamation, Harassment Over Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us'
Drake has formalized his contentious battle against Kendrick Lamar‘s diss track “Not Like Us” by going after Universal Music Group, filing a defamation and harassment lawsuit against the major music conglomerate on Wednesday. The Canadian-born rapper, whose real name is Aubrey Drake Graham, claims UMG “unleashed every weapon in its …
Read More »Lucy Dacus Previews New Album With Two Stunners 'Ankles' and 'Limerence'
2025 is officially the Year of Lucy Dacus. The singer-songwriter, fresh off her massive, Grammy-winning success with boygenius, will release the new solo album Forever Is a Feeling, out March 28 via Geffen Records. To preview the album, Dacus shared two excellent new tracks: “Ankles” and “Limerence.” The former is …
Read More »'Wolf Man' Has an Interesting Take on Werewolf Movies. Then Things Get Hairy
Inside every man lies a beast, waiting to be unleashed — that’s the central conceit behind most werewolf movies, be they horrifying (The Howling), sexy (the Twilight movies), or occasionally, both (the Jack Nicholson/Michelle Pfeiffer potboiler Wolf). Sometimes this full-moon fever is seen as liberating. Other times it’s a painful …
Read More »Bill Burr Roasts Internet Fools Over L.A. Fire Chatter
As fires spread across Los Angeles, so too has a blaze of misinformation and hot takes enflamed the internet. Comedian Bill Burr took aim at the architects of said garbage on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tuesday night. “I think everyone did a great job,” Burr said of rescue and firefighting efforts. …
Read More »Perfume Genius Is Bound for 'Glory' on His Next Album
Perfume Genius will return this spring with an album that he’s describing as one of the boldest artistic statements of his 15-year career. Glory, out March 28 on his longtime label Matador Records, is the seventh studio album from Mike Hadreas’ long-running art-rock project. Lead single “It’s a Mirror” features …
Read More »For Keke Palmer, Work Is 'Joy.' Life, She's Still Figuring Out
Keke Palmer is a performer down to her bones, honey. She’s booked, she’s busy, and thanks to her two-year-old son, Leo, she can now act out a good portion of Boss Baby on demand. “I do that [voice] to my son, and he immediately starts laughing,” Palmer, 31, says. “He’s …
Read More »M. Night Shyamalan Begins Trial for $81 Million Copyright Lawsuit Over 'Servant'
In 2020, Italian director Francesca Gregorini sued M. Night Shyamalan and Apple TV+ for copyright infringement. The lawsuit alleges that the Shyamalan-directed series Servant, which ran for four seasons on the streaming platform, infringes on elements from her 2013 movie The Truth About Emanuel. On Tuesday, the case seeking $81 …
Read More »The Avett Brothers' Toby Keith Cover Is a Damn Delight
Given their instrumentation and mountain-music harmonies, the Avett Brothers have always been naturals when it comes to country covers. When they last appeared on Austin City Limits in 2014, they zipped through a version of George Jones’ “The Race Is On.” For their next spot on the show, airing Saturday, …
Read More »Stand Down, Youngs. Old People Are Taking Over TV
Ted Danson was 34 when Cheers debuted in the fall of 1982, on the younger side for a TV star at the time. That season’s top 10 highest-rated shows included a few other thirtysomething leads in Tom Selleck on Magnum, P.I. and John Ritter in Three’s Company, but for the …
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