Blake Shelton performed his new song “Minimum Wage” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Thursday, February 11th. The simple black-and-white clip found Shelton and his backing band breezing through the slick country rocker. “You can make my truck out in the driveway,” Shelton crooned in his rich drawl, “Roll …
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U.K. singer Joss Stone performed her new song, “Walk With Me,” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Monday, January 11th. The track is a classic soul number centered around a simple drum shuffle and tender guitar line. The arrangement put the vocals of Stone and her three stellar back-up …
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On The Late Show Monday, Bob Woodward shared a previously unreleased audio excerpt from a conversation with President Donald Trump where the president once again revealed he understood how serious Covid-19 was in private while downplaying it public. The tape, Woodward told Stephen Colbert, came from an interview with Trump …
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Damon Albarn performed his first ever “duet” with his animated outfit Gorillaz with a rendition of “Aries” on Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday. Albarn is of, course, always playing with Gorillaz in the sense that he’s the mastermind behind the animated outfit’s music. But the Kimmel appearance actually placed him alongside …
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Avril Lavigne delivered a heartfelt performance of her latest single, “Tell Me It’s Over,” during Late Night with Seth Meyers on Monday. Lavigne was backed by her five-piece band, whose melodic doo-wop harmonies buoyed the intimate performance of her latest Head Above Water single. On the breakup ballad, Lavigne laments …
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The 2020 Democratic presidential primary is shaping up to be an outsize field, with two dozen declared candidates in the running. On Tuesday, Jimmy Kimmel Live! unveiled a song to help voters remember them all. Kimmel’s jaunty piano singalong bounced through the names of all 24 major contenders, from party frontrunners …
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Stephen Colbert tried to parse the strange new development in the Jussie Smollett case on The Late Show Tuesday. Yesterday, prosecutors in Chicago announced that they were dropping all 16 charges against Smollett, who was accused of orchestrating a hate crime against himself (the Empire actor has repeatedly denied the …
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Weezer recruited the Roots and Jimmy Fallon for a “classroom instruments” version of A-ha’s “Take on Me” on Thursday’s Tonight Show. The group went suitably retro for the occasion, with Fallon and Rivers Cuomo sporting New Wave/synth-pop haircuts and neon jackets with sharp shoulder pads and rolled-up sleeves. The ramshackle, …
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Samantha Bee examined President Donald Trump’s growing — and worrying — interest in Venezuela, and warned that his administration’s actions and personnel decisions hint at not just the Iraq War, but America’s catastrophic actions in Latin America during the Cold War. On Full Frontal Wednesday, Bee noted how the Trump …
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Lil Wayne unleashed a potent rendition of his Carter V cut “Don’t Cry” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Wednesday. The performance found Wayne tearing through the track’s brutally honest bars about life, death, success and failure: “It was dark, now the sun back/ Hit me hard, but I …
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