“Redneck Woman” singer Gretchen Wilson was arrested at a Connecticut airport on Tuesday, following a disturbance on an inbound flight. According to Hartford-based WFSB, Wilson was placed under arrest at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks after a “minor disturbance.” State troopers dispatched to the scene were conducting an interview …
Read More »David Crosby Unveils U.S. Fall Tour
David Crosby will tour the U.S. this fall with his Lighthouse Band, kicking off the five-week run on November 2nd at Seattle’s Neptune Theatre. The trek will wrap on December 8th at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY. Tickets for the tour will go on sale this Friday, August …
Read More »Kacey Musgraves, Reese Witherspoon Talk Struggles for Women in Country Music
Reese Witherspoon spotlights the success stories of women in her new series Shine On With Reese. In the latest episode, the actress joins Kacey Musgraves in Nashville for a drive through Music City and a cocktail, where they talk about what it’s like to be a woman in the country …
Read More »Eric Clapton Readies First Christmas Album 'Happy Xmas'
Eric Clapton has announced his first Christmas album Happy Xmas, a collection of seasonal songs that arrives this October. “I had in my head that these holiday songs could be done with a slight blues tinge, and I started to figure out how to play the blues lines in between …
Read More »It's Never Been a Better Time to Speak Out Against Trump-Enablers
On Wednesday, the Washington Post published a storythat delved inside the complicated relationship between White House spokesperson Kellyanne Conway and her husband, George. Though George once supported Trump, he has since publicly turned against the president, most notably through his Twitter account. Conway, meanwhile, remains Trump’s most loyal on-camera surrogate, …
Read More »Coheed and Cambria's Claudio Sanchez on Resuming 'The Amory Wars'
“What we’re doing is weird,” Claudio Sanchez admits with a belly laugh. He’s referring to “The Amory Wars,” the gargantuan sci-fi saga that his band, prog-rock quartet Coheed and Cambria, have unfurled over the last 16 years. “Concept records in themselves are not weird, but for a band to continue …
Read More »Meet Awkwafina, the Breakout Star of 'Crazy Rich Asians'
It’s a good thing for moviegoers that Nora Lum was, in her own words, “the worst” at her chosen art: playing the trumpet. “Oh my god, I was horrible,” says the Queens-born actress known as Akwkafina, calling from China in June, where she was filming an as-yet-untitled movie with director …
Read More »Review: Nicki Minaj Protects Her Crown on 'Queen'
On her first album in three and a half years, Nicki Minaj comes out swinging. “Unlike a lot of these hoes, whether wack or lit/At least I can say I wrote every rap I spit,” she charges on “Ganja Burns.” Queen is littered with subliminal disses, and though she doesn’t …
Read More »On the Charts: Travis Scott's 'Astroworld' Dethrones Drake to Take Number One
Travis Scott‘s Astroworld ended Drake’s five-week reign atop the Billboard 200 on the strength of the second-best sales week of 2018. Astroworld – the Houston rapper’s second Number One album following 2016’s Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight – sold 537,000 total copies in its first week of release, Billboard …
Read More »How Joe Cole Went From 'Peaky Blinders' to Thai-Prison Kickboxer
There’s a scene in A Prayer Before Dawn, the film adaptation of Billy Moore’s prison memoir, in which the convict hits rock bottom. An Englishman incarcerated in a rough Thai jailhouse dubbed the “Bangkok Hilton,” he’s strung out on drugs and has nearly killed a man. Before Moore was a …
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