Just over a year after the Smashing Pumpkins released their triple-album Atum, Billy Corgan and company are back with another new LP titled Aghori Mhori Mei, arriving in two weeks’ time on August 2. Soon after the release of the final installment of Atum, the prolific Corgan returned to the …
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In an industry rife with remakes, remasters, and re-releases, few companies have mastered the art of repacking leftovers for a nostalgia-driven appetite than Nintendo. With games like 1985’s NES classic Super Mario Bros. reissued dozens of times over four decades, even the youngest players are familiar with the look, feel, …
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Lady Gaga is giving her Little Monsters a small — but very exciting — update on the status of the long-awaited LG7. The singer posted a series of photos from inside the recording studio on Thursday, assuring fans that new music is officially underway. “Just me in the studio—happy as …
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Jane Fonda and Bob Newhart‘s paths didn’t cross much over the many decades of their respective careers —but in the last eight years, they became neighbors and friends, as Fonda wrote in an Instagram tribute to Newhart, who died Thursday at age 94. “He was just like on the screen: …
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Cheng Pei Pei, the pioneering “Queen of Martial Arts” who starred in dozens of wuxia films in Hong Kong before reaching a global audience with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, has died at the age of 78. Cheng’s family revealed the actress died Wednesday in San Francisco after she was first …
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Ten years ago this week, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s Mandatory Fun became the first comedy album to top the Billboard album chart since Allan Sherman’s My Son, the Nut in August 1963. The years following that triumph have been a busy time for Yankovic, marked by multiple world tours, a stint …
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If Joe Jonas could have any superpower in the world, it wouldn’t be the ability to fly or teleport anywhere he wanted or time travel. He wouldn’t even want to have superhuman speed or lasers that shoot out of his eyes. In the first verse on his first official solo …
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In his big debut at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night, vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance pitched the convention crowd on the faux-populist schtick he’s been honing since leaving his venture capital job in Silicon Valley to run for Senate in the Rust Belt. “Wall Street barons crashed the …
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Keith Gattis made a quick impression on Low Gap. Now, the Ohio band wants to remind the world of the impact that Gattis had on country music, more than a year after the songwriter’s passing. On Friday, Low Gap, led by brothers Gus and Phin Johnson, dropped the new single …
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George Washington could tell a lie, Taft didn’t get stuck in the bath, and Mary Lincoln never used Todd, her maiden name, after marriage. As a presidential historian, I love eviscerating falsehoods with an arsenal of contradictory evidence. I start by naming the false witness, identifying his motivations, methodically trace …
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