Detroit rapper Royce Da 5’9″ reunites with his Bad Meets Evil partner Eminem for a new video for “Caterpillar.” The song hails from Royce’s seventh album, Book of Ryan. In the black-and-white, James Larese-directed clip, the rappers take turns on their fiery verses while the other remains stoic, taking in …
Read More »Sasha Spielberg on New Buzzy Lee EP and Acting in Her Dad's Movies
“I can kind of be a chameleon,” says Sasha Spielberg. At 27, Spielberg has been making music for nearly a decade – first in Wardell, an indie-folk act with her brother Theo, and then in Just Friends, an electro-pop collaboration with her friend, producer Nicolas Jaar. Yet she’s a woman …
Read More »A Theory of the Leaks Surrounding Mueller's Questions for Trump
Imagine a bull – or a bull’s handlers – wanting a matador to wave a red muleta in front of the charging beast. That’s one way to look at Monday night’s leak of the questions Special Counsel Robert Mueller reportedly wants to ask President Trump as part of the growing …
Read More »Rachel Maddow, Maria Shriver Sign Letter Defending Tom Brokaw
Over 60 of Tom Brokaw’s female colleagues – including Rachel Maddow, Maria Shriver and Andrea Mitchell – signed a letter in defense of the former NBC Nightly News anchor following sexual harassment allegations against Brokaw. “As professional women, we fully endorse the conversation around abuse of power in the workplace. …
Read More »Old Dominion Extend Headlining 2018 Happy Endings World Tour
Fresh off their surprise win for ACM Vocal Group of the Year, country band Old Dominion have added a fresh round of dates to their ongoing Happy Endings World Tour. Beginning October 4th in Knoxville, Tennessee, the band has 22 new shows on tap with dates spread out across the …
Read More »The Last Poets, Rap Forefathers, Talk Return, Black Lives Matter
Emerging from the Black Power era of the late Sixties and early Seventies, experimenting with street poetry and percussive sound, the music of Harlem’s Last Poets helped lay the groundwork for hip-hop. The intense Black Nationalist fare of their 1970 self-titled debut was not only politically explosive – it’s most …
Read More »See Allison Janney, James Corden Vie For 'Sound of Music' Lead
Allison Janney vied for the role of Maria in James Corden‘s Crosswalk the Musical production of the classic The Sound of Music during Monday’s The Late Late Show‘s primetime special. Janney, who stars on the CBS show Mom, was among the actors from the network’s lineup who auditioned for Corden’s …
Read More »Beyonce Cements 'Queen of Coachella' Status With Masterful Second Show
In the week since Beyoncé marched into Coachella as a drum majorette with a 100-member band, transformed the traditionally rock & roll festival into a homecoming celebration at an HBCU and added another crown – Queen of ‘Chella, natch—to her collection, her show has been lauded as historic, a game-changer, …
Read More »See Denzel Washington Seek Revenge in New 'The Equalizer 2' Trailer
Denzel Washington‘s character Robert McCall exacts revenge in the first trailer for The Equalizer 2. “They killed my friend. So, I’m gonna kill each and every one of them,” he warns in the action-packed clip. “And the only disappointment is that I only get to do it once.” In the …
Read More »James Bay Reflects on Power of Personal Connection in New 'Us' Video
James Bay draws on the power of inclusivity and contemplates pain in his somber new video for “Us.” The singer-songwriter plays piano in an empty room throughout the clip. The visuals cycle through intimate shots of ordinary life: one person stares into a bathroom mirror, another reclines in the grass …
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