Kamila Valieva, the 15-year-old Russian figure skater who was controversially allowed to participate in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics amid a doping scandal, failed to medal in the women’s free skate program despite being the heavy favorite in the event. The usually rock-solid Valieva — who was atop the leaderboard …
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Luck Reunion, the all-day celebration of music held on site at Willie Nelson’s Spicewood, Texas, ranch, resumes after a two-year pandemic interruption. Set for Thursday, March 17, during South by Southwest’s music week in nearby Austin, the 10th installment announced its lineup on Thursday. Willie Nelson and Family top a …
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Before Nathan Drake was a stubbly, world-weary treasure hunter who’d raided his share of tombs and knew his way around a puzzle-heavy, peril-filled PlayStation 3 RPG, he was just another twentysomething dude in New York. You know the type: looks like a movie star, likes to flip bottles while mixing …
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Lizzo goes on the lookout for the next class of “Big Grrrls” backup dancers to accompany the rapper on her tour in the first trailer for the Prime Video unscripted series Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls. The reality competition finds Lizzo and her team of collaborators inviting a …
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Keith Richards will reunite with the X-Pensive Winos at the annual Love Rocks charity concert, taking place March 10 at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. The lineup for the sixth annual event also boast Mavis Staples, Hozier, Warren Haynes, Melissa Etheridge, Allison Russell, Larkin Poe, Tyler Bryant, the …
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Steve Poltz puts Dylan-esque wordplay and the electric acid-test colors of the Sixties on display in his new song and video for “Can O’ Pop.” It’s the latest track off the San Diego-raised, Nashville-based songwriter’s upcoming album Stardust & Satellites, out Feb. 18. “Can O’ Pop” is a fizzy delight, …
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In the beginning, there was only the video camera and the birthday party. Long before the endless album delays and perpetually in-progress tracks, before the eclipsing-the-main-event listening parties, before the beautiful dark twisted fantasies, before the tabloids and tantrums and meltdowns and fashion lines and presidential bids (but not before …
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KYIV — The calm here is palpable. Shops are open, supermarkets are stocked. On Monday, the tunnels beneath the city’s central Maidan Square were filled with flower sellers hawking a sea of pink, scarlet, and violet bouquets for Valentine’s Day. Despite a notable absence of tourists, the city seems placid …
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Jordan Peele has revealed the first trailer for the writer-director’s latest “horror epic” Nope, out July 22. After scaring audiences with bodysnatchers in Get Out and doppelgängers in Us, Peele focuses on otherworldly terrors in his latest film, as something mysterious in the sky haunts the only black-owned Hollywood horse …
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Happy birthday to Brighten the Corners, Pavement’s slyest, funniest, most underrated masterpiece, released on Feb. 11, 1997. It’s their pinnacle of rockness, full of majestic guitar bravado and stupid-beautiful melodies, with room for terrible jokes, instrumental detours, gossip about Geddy Lee and Conrad Hilton. Brighten is their turning-30 album, as …
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