Nanci Griffith wrote songs that the music world loved to cover. With news of her death on August 13th at the age of 68, many are revisiting her folk and country standards — or learning about her incredible singing and songwriting gifts for the first time. But throughout the 1980s and into the Nineties, she
Kanye won’t win an album sales war, but no one can beat him in the merch and performance art game. By The Editors of GQ August 13, 2021 Kanye West is seen at the Donda listening event at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on July 22, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia.Courtesy of Kevin Mazur for Getty Images Another new music
The Adams Family are doing the kind of pioneering DIY work that most low-budget independent filmmakers can only dream of. The trio – composed of John Adams, Toby Poser and their daughter Zelda Adams – write and direct all of their films collaboratively. They also act as editor, cinematographer, DP, costume designer, music composer, and
Play video content Peacock Kevin Hart‘s awkward exchange with Don Cheadle over the actor’s age has folks split smack down the middle on whether it was staged … but either way, it’s pretty hilarious. Don sat down for an interview on Kevin’s Peacock streaming show “Hart to Heart” … and the interview seemingly goes south
EXCLUSIVE: We hear that New Line’s 8-Bit Christmas will premiere exclusively on HBO Max on Nov. 25th, in all countries where the service is available, meaning U.S. and Latin America. Here in the U.S., that date is Thanksgiving Day, a prime time for watching holiday movies on the couch. 8-Bit Christmas will be distributed by
Fourteen years ago today, on Aug. 14, 2007, Luke Bryan released his debut album. I’ll Stay Me was released on Capitol Records. After working in a grocery store and on his family’s farm, Bryan moved to Nashville and focused on his career. By the time I’ll Stay Me was released, Bryan had already found success as a songwriter, having co-written Billy
Sourcebooks Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned her triumphant return to her southern, elite Duquette University. Everyone is going to see the girl she wants them to see—confident, beautiful, indifferent. Not the girl she was when she left campus, back when Heather Shelby’s murder fractured everything, including the tight bond linking the six
Rihanna‘s fashion show nearly got a musical artist decapitated, because they played the wrong version of a song at a fashion show … this according to a new lawsuit. Rihanna’s Fenty brand is being sued by a musician who claims RiRi’s company reached out to use one of her songs during a Savage X Fenty
Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore, Green Room) is directing a remake of Troma’s The Toxic Avenger for Legendary Entertainment, and we’ve learned that filming has now wrapped. Writer/Director Blair himself made the announcement this afternoon on Twitter. Find the tweet below. In the 1984 original, directed by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael
Trey Parker and Matt Stone are getting the keys to a beloved Colorado restaurant featured in “South Park” … the real Casa Bonita is theirs, and the deal happened fast. The “South Park” creators announced Friday they struck a deal to become the new owners of the Mexican restaurant made famous by their show, breaking
Play video content Courtesy of MLB The MLB’s Field Of Dreams replica officially has Ray Kinsella’s stamp of approval … ’cause Kevin Costner visited it this week and GUSHED over the ballpark, calling it “perfect.” Costner — who played Kinsella in the 1989 classic baseball movie — got a tour of the Dyersville, Iowa field
Tory Lanez‘s surprise appearance at Rolling Loud better have been worth it for him, because it’s landed him in hot water with prosecutors who are now going after him in court, claiming he violated a court order to stay away from Megan Thee Stallion. Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … prosecutors have filed a
Tim McGraw‘s daughter, Audrey McGraw, plays the lead in his new music video for the song “7500 OBO.” The just-released clip is about a truck, but it’s so much more than that. While in the song “7500 OBO” the truck is up for sale became it reminds the protagonist too much of an ex, the
By now, you’d have had to be in exile on a WiFi-barren island to avoid the buzz around HBO’s surprise summer hit The White Lotus. Set at a lavish Hawaiian resort, the deliciously mischievous show portrays a group of privileged, oblivious, mostly white guests and the frustrated staff members attempting to perfect their stay. Yet
As brutally unsettling as Kristin Hayter’s work as Lingua Ignota can be, her music is rooted in the cathartic power of empathy and a deep, complicated desire for peace. On her previous LP, 2019’s astonishing Caligula, she combined the sounds of classical music, metal, and noise in an attempt to exorcise trauma, reclaiming the “phallocentric
Is it a sequel? Is it a remake? Is it a reboot? Those were the questions thrown around after it was announced that director James Gunn was slated to write and direct The Suicide Squad. Sporting returning cast members Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Joel Kinnaman, and Jai Courtney in their respective roles, Gunn’s bizarrely heartfelt
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The teaser is just Florence Pugh in full period-specific costume, looking very intense in what looks like a graveyard. Directed by Sebastián Lelio, The Wonder is inspired by the 19th-century phenomenon of “fasting girls.” Florence Pugh will play Lib, a nurse who travels to a small Irish village to investigate and observe a young girl.
American Horror Story Double Feature premieres in a little over a week with a double-episode premiere. Thankfully, we won’t have to wait until August 25 to lay eyes on the theme of the first half of the season. FX on Friday unveiled the full-length trailer for the “Red Tide,” the first of two horror stories
In the early morning hours on Monday, Aug. 9, a man broke into the Nashville condo of singer-songwriter Joel Crouse and walked out with a plethora of his belongings. Crouse was there, but was sound asleep at the time. “I’m a heavier sleeper than I thought,” the 28-year-old admits during an interview a few days after
Dance producers Joel Corry and Jax Jones have enlisted Charli XCX and Saweetie for a new song called ‘Out Out’. The track is built on a sample of Stromae’s late ‘00s dance hit ‘Alors On Danse’. Check it out below. “I’m buzzing to collaborate with my bro Jax Jones and the amazing Charli XCX and Saweetie,” Joel
One half of the iconic rock and soul duo talks about his quarantine projects, returning to the road, and how their evergreen hits keep coming back in style. By Al Shipley August 12, 2021 John Oates in Nashville, January 09, 2020.Terry Wyatt / Getty Images John Oates met Daryl Hall in 1967, and the two
That high lonesome note that Joshua Ray Walker held in his spine-tingling ballad “Voices” hits in an entirely different way in his swaggering new song “Sexy After Dark.” While “Voices,” a breakthrough for the Texas songwriter, was a dark, somber commentary on suicidal ideations, “Sexy After Dark” is a gloriously confident anthem that frames Walker’s
The Toronto International Film Festival hype has hit overdrive now that the Midnight Madness titles have been announced. One of the coolest films set to make its North American Premiere is After Blue (Dirty Paradise), a nightmarish sci-fi horror fantasy from French filmmaker Bertrand Mandico. Variety reports today that Altered Innocence has picked up North American rights to the
Disney CEO Bob Chapek continued to emphasize the flexibility of the studio’s controversial theatrical-day-and-date Disney+ Premier model given the uncertain times of Covid. “We value flexibility in being able to make last minute calls,” said Chapek on today’s earnings call without indicating any additional future dynamic window releases beyond the studio’s recent summer handful of Cruella,
Kenny Chesney is selling his spectacular hilltop estate just outside of Nashville, and pictures show a stunningly lavish residence that’s fit for a king. Chesney’s four-bedroom, nine-bathroom, 12,599-square-foot residence is an opulent stone villa that’s situated on a hilltop on 56 lushly wooded acres of land in the affluent Nashville suburb of Franklin, Tenn., which
Pastel Wasteland released new horror micro-short “The Kiss” today, directed by Rob Ulitski and starring up-and-coming genre actors Bella Rich and Chris Mills. The film explores post-pandemic anxiety, through an experimental and grisly aesthetic. Shot on a micro budget at the end of the most recent lockdown, the film was a labour of love and
If you read in English, chances are that there are a few countries that take up the vast majority of your reading. Only 2–4% of books published in English are translated, and even books published in English in countries other than the U.S. and UK often don’t get picked up and publicized in the same way that
When it comes to closets, Paris Hilton is unmatched. The Hollywood style icon is giving ELLE a tour of her hottest pieces on Clothes of Our Lives, from her biggest splurge, to her top Y2k picks, and her favorite ’fit to cook with, as seen on Cooking With Paris. This content is created and maintained