A new documentary, Daytime Revolution, will look at all that went into John Lennon and Yoko Ono‘s legendary weeklong 1972 residency as guests on The Mike Douglas Show — the most-watched daytime talk show at the time — and its impact. A trailer shows how the couple used the opportunity …
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The U.K.’s Reading & Leeds Festival issued a pair of apologies this weekend to two of the lineup’s biggest acts after technical issues and weather upended sets by Lana Del Rey and Reneé Rapp. Del Rey headlined Reading on Saturday night and, by all accounts, delivered a terrific set that …
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G Herbo stands in the wood-paneled control room of a studio in Chicago’s River West neighborhood one afternoon in early May, playing potential tracks for his latest mixtape, Big Swerv (out Sept. 6). He recorded much of it right here in this studio, which served as his second home through …
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I n January 2007, a few months after the conclusion of the On an Island tour, David Gilmour and members of his road band, including Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright, convened in a drafty barn on his U.K. property to try out some new song ideas. “I hadn’t thought this …
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After releasing 10 studio albums that run the gamut from rock-opera concept records to collections of cocksure power-pop, Butch Walker is putting a period on his recording career as a solo artist. Ironically, the singer-songwriter came to that decision while gearing up to commemorate the 20th anniversary of his breakthrough …
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Is he in or is he out? Donald Trump has once again hinted that he may attempt to duck a debate against Vice President Kamala Harris as the debate over debates rages on between the two campaigns. Late Sunday night, the former president laid into ABC News in an angry …
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TLC scrapped two performance dates this weekend after member Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins fell ill and was hospitalized. The Nineties R&B group, famous for hits like “No Scrubs,” “Waterfalls,” and “Creep,” were scheduled to play the New York State Fair in Syracuse on Aug 23. and the Foxwoods Resort Casino in …
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Some five decades separate director Victor Erice’s debut film, The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), and his latest, Close Your Eyes. In between these twin professional highlights, there are two other features — El Sur (1983), a work haunted by the fact that filming was halted before a key scene …
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Just over 40 years ago, Ronald Reagan became the first American president to name-drop Bruce Springsteen. “America’s future rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts,” he told a crowd at a New Jersey campaign stop in September 1984. “It rests in the message of hope in the songs of …
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O n the day Igor Danchenko believes he was betrayed by the U.S. government — when the federal government’s chief law-enforcement officer effectively outed the Russian émigré, then a confidential FBI informant, as the architect of one of the most explosive and controversial documents in American political history — Danchenko …
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