I’ve always been a pop culture fanatic. I remember eagerly digging into different comic books, books, movies and television shows when I was a teen, and that practice has followed me to today. Right now, I find a ton of joy snuggling up with a Harley Quinn or Wonder Woman comic, or even anything related
Every week, The Boot highlights recent favorites from country, Americana and everything in between. In every list, you’ll find picks from our contributing team that we think you’ll love. Keep reading to check out the latest installment of The Boot’s Weekly Picks. Leyla McCalla “Fort Dimanche” Having broke ground with the Carolina Chocolate Drops and released her own
Everyone in the world has been run through the ringer in the last two years thanks to the on-going presence of the COVID-19 pandemic in our lives, and while the consequences have been vast, certainly part of the equation is a massive impact on interpersonal relationships. A lot of couples have seen their bonds strained
Viji – the moniker of London-based singer Vanilla Jenner – has announced a new EP called Cali, which is out March 11 via Dirty Hit. Along with the news, Viji has dropped the new track ‘Mercy’. Check it out below. “I was writing it as if you’re sitting there laughing at the world ending,” Viji explained
Cardigan, top, shorts, earrings, necklace, ring, and watch, Chanel. Tyler Joe Is the ocean bigger than Camila Mendes? Certainly—but also, in some respects, no. In real life, Mendes is 5’2” while the Atlantic Ocean takes up nearly 41 million miles. Watch the Riverdale star wade through waves in Miami—even while wearing some gasp-worthy beachwear from
Play video content ABC Jamie Lynn Spears says she has always loved her sister, Britney, and can’t understand how that relationship deteriorated. Britney’s younger sister appeared Wednesday on “Good Morning America” … hawking her book, “Things I Should Have Said,” about her family. Jamie Lynn said she’s happy the conservatorship ended, but bobbed and weaved
The battle over whether the Serbian tennis superstar will play in the year’s first Grand Slam has been filled with twists and turns. By Grant Rindner January 12, 2022 Novak Djokovic of Serbia during a practice session ahead of the 2022 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 12, 2022 in Melbourne, Australia.Courtesy of Darrian
Although R. L. Stine is best known for scaring younger audiences, namely with series like Fear Street and Goosebumps, the prolific children’s author has dabbled in adult stories from time to time. Sprinkled throughout his extensive oeuvre are the occasional grown-up tales of terror; four to be exact. In Stine’s third novel aimed at older
Ryan Hurd brought his full band to perform his song “Pass It On” on Jimmy Kimmel Live. The group, led by Hurd on vocals and guitar, gave the rollicking track a warm, collective vibe. The optimistic song had a particular resonance as Hurd crooned, “What good is your dollar or your love or your bottle/
A new country music drama starring Trace Adkins has been bumped from its high-profile premiere date. Fox’s Monarch was set to premiere on Jan. 30, right after the NFL’s NFC Championship Game. The reason for the Monarch delay is a familiar one: Fox cites the impact of COVID-19 in explaining the reschedule. The Hollywood Reporter‘s report
Paramount Players romance feature The In Between will hit the Paramount+ streaming service on Friday, Feb. 11. The movie is a supernatural love story that centers on a teenage girl, Tessa (Joey King), who, after bouncing around in foster homes for most of her childhood, doesn’t believe she deserves her own love story. Everything changes
Ronnie Spector, the 1960s icon who rose to fame as the leader of the girl group the Ronettes, has died at 78. “Our beloved earth angel, Ronnie, peacefully left this world today after a brief battle with cancer,” her family wrote in a statement posted on the singer’s website. “Ronnie lived her life with a
Play video content TMZ.com Kanye West is plotting on Putin — he wants to have a sit-down meeting with the Russian leader, that is … and his team is rooting for the ultimate link up. We caught up with Ye’s manager Bu Thiam, and he’s definitely here for a Vladimir Putin meets West sit down
Gallup has just released the results of the 2021 edition of a reading survey they’ve done since 1990. Last year, U.S. Americans reported reading 12.6 books on average, down from 15.6 in 2016, and lower than any of the previous years. The percentage of respondents who said they had not read at all in the
The Resident is no longer returning this month on FOX. The broadcast network has pushed back the premiere date for the back half of The Resident Season 5 to February 1. That date was initially announced when the show went on hiatus late last year, but the network subsequently moved up the premiere. “Our dearest
Turns out that the rumour posted yesterday was true. Only instead of Fall 2022, GSC Game World has announced that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 has had its release date bumped from its April 28th release date to December 8th, 2022. The release date change was posted to the official S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Twitter account. The reasoning behind the delay is
On this day (Jan. 12) in 1991, Garth Brooks soared to the top of the charts with his hit “Unanswered Prayers,” from his multi-platinum-selling album No Fences. The song, which Brooks co-wrote with Pat Alger and Larry Bastian, was a true-life account of an incident that the country superstar had been through with his then-wife, Sandy. “”Unanswered
There’s a new tribute to Betty White in town, but this one isn’t just about honoring Betty … it’s about promoting the cause closest to her heart. Corie Mattie is responsible for the new mural that’s been installed on L.A.’s famed Melrose Ave. She says the piece took her roughly 15 hours to complete and
UK post-hardcore band Rolo Tomassi have released a new song called ‘Closer’, taken from their upcoming album Where Myth Becomes Memory. It arrives today alongside a video directed by David Gregory. Check it out below. “We wanted to show a completely different side to the record by releasing this single,” keyboardist and vocalist James Spence said
2022 has just started, but K-pop boy band ATEEZ is soaring into the new year with momentum following the December release of their six-track EP ZERO : FEVER EPILOGUE and their January U.S. tour dates, which start next Tuesday in Chicago. The proof is in the numbers alone—and the staggering speed in which ATEEZ’s millions
If Google Maps kept track of cryptids (mental note: new website idea), a search on “Mothman” would go first to Point Pleasant, West Virginia – home of the original and most famous sightings in 1966-67. What location would be #2? A strong case could be made for Chicago, Illinois, which has had a steady stream
History tends to repeat itself. We’re meant to look to the past and learn from its mistakes. That holds true in life and in horror. Wes Craven‘s seminal 1996 slasher dissected the patterns of the genre with a self-referential wink while going for the jugular, but horror has evolved tremendously since. Some rules hold firm,
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While she rose to prominence as a singer-songwriter, Lady Gaga has steadily been proving herself to be a formidable actor. On the small screen, she terrified fans with her work on American Horror Story: Hotel and, in 2018, she gave an Oscar-nominated performance in A Star is Born (which paired her with Bradley Cooper). Her
Lou Roy has announced her debut album: Pure Chaos arrives on April 29 via Balloon Machine. The LP was co-produced by Sarah Tudzin of illuminati hotties and includes the previously released single ‘Valkyrie’, which landed on our Best New Songs segment. To accompany the announcement, Roy has today shared a new track called ‘Uppercut’. Give
BTK killer Dennis Rader might consider himself a good person deep down — but his appetite for grisly tales behind bars might suggest otherwise. The infamous murderer — who brutally took the lives of 10 people between ‘74 and ‘91 — dishes on his favorite reading materials in some of his handwritten letters … and
Plus: that time he watched beefy Christian muscle men rip phone books in half. By Gabriella Paiella January 10, 2022 Danny McBride.Kevin Winter / Getty Images On Sunday, HBO premiered a new season of its acclaimed comedy series about three fuckup siblings idiotically vying for control of their perpetually disappointed father’s corrupt empire. That’s right,
We’re now just a few short days away from the release of Scream, which feels like the most hotly anticipated horror movie since Halloween back in 2018. And it’s not even the only big horror franchise return on the way here in 2022, but let’s focus on the here and now! Our review of the
When Spotify announced its Hot Country Artists to Watch list for 2022 on Tuesday, it was notable not for the inclusion of already known and buzzed about stars like Morgan Wade and Breland, but for its number of independent artists. Half of the 10-name list is made up of singer-songwriters without a major label record
Artists and members of the Black country music community are voicing their disappointment in the Grand Ole Opry after Morgan Wallen, just shy of a year after his racist slur scandal, made an unannounced stop on the legendary stage as part of up-and-comer Ernest‘s debut. The performance in question happened on Saturday (Jan. 8), with