This year’s Stagecoach Festival was a love letter to country music’s past and a nod to its wide-open future. While the festival — the genre’s largest, most rollicking reunion that takes place in California’s low desert the week after Coachella — was sparse on guest appearances (no Axl Rose, this time), the level of showmanship
Filmmaker James Gunn’s Marvel Studios swan song, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, is blasting off this weekend, the de facto start of the summer box office, with an eye at $250M worldwide. Of that $110M is coming from domestic, and $140M from overseas. Wrinkling some box office sources brows is how the threequel’s start
Amaarae has revealed that her new album, Fountain Baby, will be released on June 9 via Interscope. The follow-up to 2020’s The Angel You Don’t Know was led by the single ‘Reckless and Sweet’, and now the Ghanaian-American musician has shared a new track from it, ‘Co-Star’. It arrives alongside a music video directed by Lauren
I’m that guy who sneezes around potent perfume. Plus, I hate the idea of suffocating friends and colleagues in a cloud of cloying cologne. This means I’m always on the lookout for kinder olfactory options. When I came across these crowd-pleasing best natural colognes, I knew from then on; I could breathe easy. Synthetic scents
Sitcoms do a funny thing — no pun intended — when they get things right. They make us care. Night Court Season 1 Episode 15 doesn’t surprise us, but it manages to innovate within the format’s parameters. With a finale on the horizon, character exits are expected, but I don’t think Gurgs going to Scotland
Director Jason Reitman along with Sony Pictures is set to be working on a Saturday Night Live movie about the behind-the-scenes story of its first episode in 1975. Reitman will be directing with a script from Gil Kenan, based on real-life accounts of the iconic comedy show’s first opening night. This will be the pairs second project together
Netflix made the announcement on the details for ‘Monsters Season 2’, which serves as a follow-up to last year’s Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. The second installment of the anthology will be titled Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. The series will follow the infamous murder case from the 90s, involving two brothers from
Trey Songz is now off the hook for his alleged bowling alley beatdown last year — because we’ve learned the most serious charges have been dropped. Songz pled guilty Tuesday to a single disorderly conduct violation in connection with the incident … while prosecutors agreed to dismiss the 10 original charges against him, which included
A first-look teaser at “The Boys” spinoff series “Gen V” promised a bloody good time late last year but with no word on when to expect it. Now, thanks to producer Eric Kripke, we can expect school to begin this Fall. Kripke amusingly tweeted, “AND SO IT BEGINS. #GenV coming Fall 2023. Website link below. (Trailer, premiere date, all of it being
The category of young adult literature is 55 years old, and since its “official” beginning with The Outsiders in 1967, it has not only grown in popularity, its reputation as a body of thought-provoking literature has, too. This is due to too many factors to name, but it is a welcome shift in perspective both
Jamie Foxx remains hospitalized more than 3 weeks after suffering a medical emergency, and those closest to him say he needs all the prayers and well-wishes his fans can muster. While his exact condition remains secret — tightly guarded by his family — we’ve spoken with sources close to Jamie who echo the same plea
The Hives have announced their first new LP in over a decade. The follow-up to 2012’s Lex Hives is called The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons, and it’s set to arrive on August 11 via FUGA. Lead single ‘Bogus Operand is accompanied by an Aube Perrie-directed video, which you can check out below. “There’s no maturity
With the addition of “new mother” to my CV this year, my to-do list has amassed many new responsibilities that didn’t always clutter my (typically) well-managed workflow. To be clear: I’m not complaining. I couldn’t be more grateful. But as any parent will attest, child-rearing challenges make life feel foreign and chaotic. To color my
Chris Janson has an impressive track record of mega-watt collaborations, and he’s upping the ante again. On Tuesday (May 2), the singer announced that he’s got a new song coming, and it features two legends of country and rock. The song, called “21 Forever,” features guest performances from Dolly Parton and Guns N’ Roses guitarist
The Broadway box office report won’t register the impact of this morning’s Tony Award nominations for a week or two, but today’s news certainly comes as welcome and promising signs for Shucked, Kimberly Akimbo, Fat Ham and other well-reviewed productions doing their best to compete against blockbusters like Sweeney Todd and Parade. Shucked in particular
The five songs on Become, the new EP Beach House released for Record Store Day that is now available across digital platforms, clearly belong in the same universe as the duo’s 2022 album Once Twice Melody. They’re all lifted from the same sessions, and at one point, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally felt like they created their own
A group of University of California at Berkeley (UCB) students are entering the second full week of occupying the school’s Anthropology Library, slated for closure. The silent protest organized by students has had them setting up makeshift beds among the library collections, and they plan to remain inside until the school agrees to keep the
A$AP Rocky is apologizing to the woman he leaned heavily on, for just a moment, so he could cut through a huge NYC crowd and get to the Met Gala. The wild scene went down Monday evening outside NYC’s Carlyle Hotel where Rocky pushed through a flood of fans and autograph seekers who didn’t recognize
Photograph: HBO; Collage: Gabe Conte As Hugo and Karolina, Fisher Stevens and Dagmara Dominczyk are quietly one of the funniest duos on Succession. By Caroline Reilly May 2, 2023 A series of small ecosystems make up the Waystar Royco C-suite on HBO’s Succession; groupings of individuals bound by trust, loyalty, fear, and blackmail. There are of course,
Eileen Saki, known for her work as bar owner Rosie on “M*A*S*H,” has died … TMZ has learned. Family sources tell TMZ Eileen passed away Monday in Los Angeles, following a battle with cancer. Fans remember Eileen as Rosie on a handful of episodes of the Korean War-era sitcom — she was the owner of
LL Cool J is pleading no contest in the case of allegedly laughing at Jay-Z‘s freestyles when the latter was in high school … a legend LL doesn’t exactly recall happening. At any rate, the Rock The Bells creator suspects his long-ago mocking of Jay could be the reason he’s never been invited to the
On May 2, 1988, Clint Black signed a record deal with RCA Records, the label that’s been home to Elvis Presley, Kenny Rogers and the Judds, among others. At the time, ZZ Top‘s manager, Bill Ham, was also steering Black’s career — a lucky break that was just one example of how the Katy, Texas-raised musician’s love
From his iconic role as Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare on Elm Street films to getting behind the camera with 976-EVIL, SCREAMBOX is celebrating the renowned career of horror legend Robert Englund with Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story, an epic new documentary coming to the streaming service this June. Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story will be
“Last job I had was sportswriter at a local newspaper,” says Pony Bradshaw. He’s sitting backstage at the Grey Eagle in Asheville, North Carolina, nursing a bottle of Miller Lite and prepping for his gig later that night. “I’ve been doing this about five years full-time.” “This” is his job as a rambling singer and
Police knocked on Keanu Reeves‘ front door after getting a call for a welfare check on a woman … but when the actor answered, they discovered it was apparently all a mix-up or a prank. Law enforcement tells TMZ … cops recently responded to Keanu’s L.A.-area home after someone called police, worried about a 27-year-old
Play video content BACKGRID Bad Bunny and Kendall Jenner are without question an item … the two were seen all around NYC together following the Met Gala. The Puerto Rican rapper and the supermodel showed up arm and arm to a private soiree and then later returned to a swanky Manhattan hotel with Kendall’s sisters,
Angel Du$t shave dropped two new songs, ‘Very Aggressive’ and ‘Love Slam’. The two-track single was produced by bandleader Justice Tripp, engineered by Paul Mercer, mixed by Steve Wright, and mastered by Tony Eichler. ‘Very Aggressive’ also features a guest appearance from Citizen singer Mat Kerekes. Take a listen below. “This was the first time
Only three out of the five Kardashian sisters attended the Met Gala tonight after a report claimed that none of the Kardashian-Jenners would be invited to the prestigious Upper East Side event. Khloé and Kourtney Kardashian missed this year’s ball, while Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, and Kendall Jenner attended. Kourtney didn’t post anything about the
Who targeted Agent Knight? On NCIS Season 20 Episode 21, things took a devastating turn after she went viral for saving a mother and child. As the team investigated what happened, it became clear that someone was going after the agent. Elsewhere, a distress call from a face from the past changed everything. Use the
Summer is right around the corner and what does that mean? It means that you (hopefully) have more time to read! If you don’t, at least the children in your life do. Enter the best summer reading programs 2023 has to offer. Kids are on summer break, and they have a lot more time on