The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will award comedian Dave Chappelle the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the New York Times reports. The annual award from the Kennedy Center will join Chappelle’s list of accolades including two Emmys and two Grammys. The Chappelle Show will be the 22nd …
Read More »Tyler, The Creator Announces New Album, 'IGOR'
Tyler, The Creator has a new album on the way. His upcoming project, titled IGOR, will be released on May 17. It’s the rapper-producer’s sixth full-length (including his 2009 mixtape BASTARD), and the follow-up to 2017’s Flower Boy— likely his best-received album to date, and one that marked a new …
Read More »'SNL' Elizabeth Warren Is Unimpressed With 'Clown Car' of Presidential Candidates
Senator Elizabeth Warren, played brilliantly as always by Kate McKinnon, stopped bySaturday Night Live’sWeekend Update desk on Saturday night. “You’ve rolled out some ambitious new plans,” host Colin Jost remarked to the candidate. “Yeah, I guess, you know, I’m setting myself apart from other candidates by saying what I’m gonna …
Read More »Review: Rhiannon Giddens' Worldly 'There Is No Other'
Over the past two years, Rhiannon Giddens has emerged as one of American music’s most vitally prolific artists, collaborating across mediums as she’s written music for the theatre (the ballet Lucy Negro Redux), appeared as a regular on a television drama (CMT’s Nashville), formed folk-roots supergroups (Songs of Our Native …
Read More »Billboard Music Awards 2019: Madonna, Maluma Perform Hologram-Enhanced 'Medellin'
Madonna — and several of her hologram doppelgängers — performed a riveting version of “Medellín” with Maluma on Wednesday at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. With a giant “X” representing her forthcoming Madame X on display, Madonna appeared laying on the stage, flanked by greenery scenes behind her. …
Read More »'Drug Use and Anarchy': Label That Birthed Oasis Basis of Latest Music Biopic
In the early 2000s, the Manchester music scene — and its most scene-connected label, Factory Records — became the basis of one of pop’s most unexpectedly beguiling feature films, 24 Hour Party People. This summer, Creation Stories, a quasi-companion piece to that movie, plans to start shooting in London. The …
Read More »The Cannabis Revolution Comes to the Capitol
Since the dawn of the Drug War, federal legislators have stood by, or even applauded, as millions of Americans have racked up convictions for marijuana offenses — with arrests increasing in the latest FBI crime statistics, despite nearly a dozen states having already legalized cannabis. But over the past two …
Read More »Jon M. Chu, Nattawut Poonpiriya, Netflix Team for Thai Cave Rescue Project
Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu, Thai filmmaker Nattawut Poonpiriya (Bad Genius) and Netflix, along with SK Global Entertainment (Crazy Rich Asians) have teamed for a forthcoming project about the rescue of a Thai soccer team trapped in a cave. The harrowing events and ultimately uplifting outcome that took …
Read More »Song You Need To Know: Bruce Springsteen, 'Hello Sunshine'
This first taste of the “recording projects” Springsteen teased last year after concluding hisBruce On Broadway stint is another E Street Band-less endeavor (though his crew,among them Nils Lofgren, have been busy with their own extracurricular projects). The first track off a forthcoming solo LP, “Hello Sunshine” is Springsteen’s precisely-calibrated …
Read More »Brandi Carlile on Busking With Dave Grohl: 'It Was Pretty Surreal'
Brandi Carlile gave passers-by quite the surprise earlier this month when she joined Dave Grohl at Seattle’s Pike Place Market for an inspired busking session. The Grammy winner says the impromptu performance took her back to the more lean years of her career. “It was really surreal, because I used …
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