Midway through Dare Me, a new USA drama set in the world of high school cheerleading, we see local cheer coach Colette French (Willa Fitzgerald) watching the classic Forties film noir Double Indemnity, based on the novel by James M. Cain. The scene is less interested in revealing something about …
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Lizzo capped off her breakout 2019 with her Saturday Night Live debut this weekend, and her guitarist, Celisse Henderson, took the opportunity to pay tribute to the legendary guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Henderson appeared alongside Lizzo for a slightly altered intro to her smash, “Truth Hurts,” picking out a crackling …
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Former Fleetwood Mac singer-guitarist Lindsey Buckingham will return to the stage this coming spring for his first concert since he underwent emergency open-heart surgery in early 2019, an operation that reportedly damaged his vocal cords. Doctors fed tubes down his throat so he could breathe. The performance will take place …
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My Chemical Romance‘s Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (2004),their second full-length and first on a major label, was a tentpole record in the burgeoning emo-punk scene. The black-and-red wearing, eyeliner-donning New Jersey boys took a massive risk when they returned in 2006 with the decidedly un-emo but very theatrical LPThe …
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Noah Cyrus recalls the difficult period in her life that led to the creation of her song “Lonely” and expounds on the importance of talking openly about anxiety and depression in a new PSA video for “Seize the Awkward” in partnership with the Ad Council. Cyrus released “Lonely” in September …
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Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter return to their trusty time-traveling phone booth and square with their old foe and bandmate, Death, in the first photos from the third installment of the Bill and Ted saga, Bill and Ted Face the Music, out August 21st, 2020. Face the Music will be …
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When David Bowie began writing songs for Hunky Dory, in 1970, he had little to show for the six years he spent trying to make it as a singer. His first three albums had tanked, and he didn’t have a record deal. Then, in January 1971, Bowie arrived in the …
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Danny Aiello — the Oscar-nominated character actor who featured in films like Do the Right Thing, Moonstruck, and The Purple Rose of Cairo — has died at the age of 86. Aiello’s literary agent, Jennifer De Chiara, confirmed to Rolling Stone that Aiello died Thursday night; Aiello’s family said in …
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Foo Fighters, Post Malone, Chance the Rapper and a reunion of the hip-hop duo Clipse highlight Pharrell Williams’ Something in the Water Festival, rolling into the producer’s native Virginia Beach, Virginia, on April 24th through 26th, 2020 Tyler the Creator, Beck (who worked with Williams on his new LP Hyperspace), …
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Young artists who blow up thanks to a sudden surge in viral interest often hit a wall when trying to repeat a breakout single. This was not a problem for Juice WRLD last year. After the heartbroken “All Girls Are the Same” announced him as a commercial force, Juice WRLD …
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