Ronnie Milsap will play his final Nashville concert Tuesday night, a guest-heavy salute to the piano player featuring Kelly Clarkson, Little Big Town, Sara Evans, Parker McCollum, Breland, Ricky Skaggs, and more. Milsap is 80 now and regarded as a pillar of country music —the Country Music Hall of Fame …
Read More »Can Swiftmania Finally Help Change the Kansas City Chiefs' Name?
Since Taylor Swift attended last Sunday’s Kansas City Chiefs game, the path of her impact has been clear and undeniable. Jersey sales for Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, Swift’s rumored boyfriend, have increased by 400 percent. Interest in Chiefs tickets has skyrocketed, according to StubHub. Swifties have even started giving …
Read More »Country Star Nate Smith's 'Love Is Blind' Theme Song Didn't Come Easy
“It would be so much easier to let me go/Let me keep on wandering down my lonely road.” These are the lyrics from Nate Smith’s “Love Is Blind,” a country ballad that accompanies a dramatic and intense scene between Love Is Blind cast members Izzy and Stacy on the fifth …
Read More »Was 'The Creator' Written by AI?
It’s no secret that artificial intelligence has become 2023’s cultural boogeyman — the vengeful ghost in the machine that now seems closer than ever to possibly “replacing” humanity. (Or, at the very least, replicating our worst instincts and darker desires in a way that’s too dangerous to laugh off.) Musicians, …
Read More »Dianne Feinstein, Trailblazing Senator From California, Dead at 90
Dianne Feinstein— the path-breaking politician, doyenne of old-school California Democrats, and the longest-serving female senator in U.S. history — died on Thursday night at her home in Washington, D.C., according to her office. She was 90. “There are few women who can be called senator, chairman, mayor, wife, mom, and …
Read More »'American Horror Story' Needs Kim Kardashian
Pregnancy and its various complications have always been fertile ground when it comes to horror. From devil children to… well, it’s always devil children, isn’t it? Which is why the most recent season of American Horror Story: Delicate — which deals with the heartbreaking trials and errors of IVF — …
Read More »Bruce Springsteen Teams With Bryce Dessner for New Song 'Addicted to Romance'
Bruce Springsteen teams up with Bryce Dessner for the new track “Addicted to Romance,” the end credits song from the upcoming film She Came to Me that the National member scored. The E Street Band rocker wrote the track after watching the film, with Springsteen also providing vocals, piano, and …
Read More »The 1975 Hiatus Isn't a Break Up, Matty Healy Clarifies: 'That's Not Happening'
When the 1975 goes off-grid following the conclusion of the Still… At Their Very Best tour, it won’t mark the end of the band itself. Earlier this week, Matty Healy told an audience in Sacramento that an “indefinite hiatus of shows” has been planned following the run of concerts. Two …
Read More »Dianne Feinstein's Death Could Grind Biden's Judicial Agenda to a Halt
Dianne Feinstein has died at the age of 90. Given the intense focus during her final years on whether she was wrong to stay in the Senate when it appeared she was no longer able to do the job, it’s easy to forget what a forward-thinking trailblazer she was. In …
Read More »Ed Sheeran Gets Seasonally Emo on 'Autumn Variations'
In his Rolling Stone cover story from this April, Ed Sheeran revealed the existence of another full Aaron Dessner-produced project that came out of the sessions for – (Subtract), which the singer-songwriter released in May. Sheeran didn’t have clear-cut goals for the album at the time. But, like his friend …
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