The decade-long wait for Hilary Duff‘s return to the music scene will come to an end sooner than fans think, the actress teased in a recent interview with Variety. “We’re getting something really soon,” she said. “[My fans] are going to hear something so soon, like in the blink of …
Read More »Bruce Springsteen Appeared on the Cover of Both 'Time' and 'Newsweek' 50 Years Ago Today
There was no shortage of major global events for the weekly news magazines to cover in October 1975. The last smallpox patient on Earth was treated in Bangladesh; Francisco Franco’s dictatorship came to an end in Spain after nearly 40 years; Saturday Night Live hit the NBC airwaves for the …
Read More »How iLe Is Breathing New Life Into the Classic Bolero
When Puerto Rican singer iLe was 13, her parents got a divorce. Even though she remained on good terms with both of them, the experience left the future Calle 13 star confused. As she got older, she developed a taste for the torrid, lovelorn boleros that have always occupied a …
Read More »'Genius Is Not Just Born, It's Made': Inside Bob Dylan's Stunning Folk-Era Bootleg Series
When Princeton history professor Sean Wilentz was a student at Columbia in 1969, a new Bob Dylan record titled The Great White Wonder began popping up in record stores. Completely unsanctioned by Bob Dylan or his label, it mixed Basement Tapes material with informal recordings of Dylan during his early …
Read More »Drake Gives a Surprise Mini-Concert During Vybz Kartel's Toronto Show
Vybz Kartel’sfirstconcert in Toronto had a special guest — and performance. During the dancehall musician’s show at Scotiabank Arena Sunday night, hometown hero Drake appeared onstage to play an eight-song set in the middle of Kartel’s show. Drake was spotted on a lower-level balcony, speaking to Kartel on the mainstage …
Read More »Zohran Mamdani Shares Message to Vote at PinkPantheress' Tour Opener: 'Our Time Has Come'
In 10 days, voters will head to the polls on Election Day for a bevy of elections around the country, including key gubernatorial and mayoral races. In New York City, Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has been busy hitting the campaign trail. Along the way, he’s made a few surprise …
Read More »Radiohead Talk European Tour and Why They Took Break in New Interview: 'The Wheels Came Off a Bit'
Radiohead talked about their upcoming European tour and opened up about why they needed to take a nearly decade-long break in the band’s first interview together in years. “I guess the wheels came off a bit, so we had to stop,” Thom Yorke told The Times UK about the band’s …
Read More »See Lana Del Rey Cover Neil Young's 'The Needle and the Damage Done' at Harvest Moon Concert
Lana Del Rey took the stage Saturday at Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon” charity concert, with the singer opened her set with a rendition of the host’s “The Needle and the Damage Done.” “I thought we’d get started with a little bit of Neil,” Del Rey told the crowd as she …
Read More »You've Seen the Dylan Biopic. Now Hear What Those Early Years Were Really Like
In late 1961, barely a year after he’d arrived in New York City from the Midwest, Bob Dylan already contained multitudes. The proof arrives early in Through the Open Window, the 18th edition of Dylan’s ongoing Bootleg Series. That fall, Dylan, then only 20 years old, recorded his first album …
Read More »Stephen Graham on Playing Bruce Springsteen's Dad — and a Possible 'Adolescence' Sequel
For Stephen Graham, it’s been a big year for dad roles, starting with his part as the distraught parent of a tragically warped son in Netflix’s Adolescence —the culture-shaking show he also co-created. He gives an equally strong performance as a very different father, the troubled Douglas Springsteen, in the …
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