Foo Fighters‘ Taylor Hawkins recruited Queen drummer Roger Taylor on Sunday for a live cover of “Under Pressure,” the latter band’s 1982 hit with David Bowie. The performance – a warm-gig promoting the band’s upcoming October festival, Cal Jam – highlighted a surprise pop-up show at the parking lot of …
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“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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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Five years ago, Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament and his future wife Pandora visited the grave of Ament’s former bandmate Andrew Wood. Wood was the lead singer of grunge pioneers Mother Love Bone; his overdose in 1990 at the age of 24 forced Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard to regroup …
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Graham Nash celebrates the movements of 1968 and 2018 in the new animated video for the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young classic, “Teach Your Children.” For the video, Nash partnered with filmmaker and painter Jeff Scher (who recently directed a video for Joan Baez’s “The President Sang Amazing Grace”). The …
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Dave Grohlannounced Play, a two-part documentary that culminates with him performing a new solo 23-minute song on seven different instruments. Grohl created the immersive Play project, arriving August 10th, to showcase “the rewards and challenges of dedicating ones life to playing and mastering a musical instrument.” “Watching my kids start …
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August — it’s the January of summer! This is the part of the summer-movie season when studios trot out the properties too offbeat (read: light on explosions) to compete with your typical June and July blockbusters. You know, the time of year when the idea of a big-budget bonanza is …
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Queen‘s roots are the focus of the new trailer for the long-awaited biopicBohemian Rhapsody, which stars Mr. Robot‘s Rami Malek as the late singer Freddie Mercury. In the trailer, Mercury attends Brian May (Gwilym Lee) and Roger Taylor’s (Ben Hardy) show while they were performing as Smile. “I enjoyed the …
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There always comes a time when the learner tries to compete with, and become, the master. It happened with Van Gogh and Millet, Beethoven and Mozart, Kobe and MJ, Darth Vader and Obi-Wan. It happened with theBeatleson July 2nd, 1963, at London’s Maida Vale Studio, where the band were taping …
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