Here’s the thing about Bad Times at the El Royale: When it’s good, it’s very, very good — and when it’s bad, this retro whatsit is a whole lot of awful. Punishingly long at 2 hours and 21 minutes, the movie is still crammed with enough depraved delights to make …
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New York-born singer-songwriter Roxiny has unveiled a new video for her song, “Golden Prophet.” It is the latest single off her 2018 album, Rituals. “I wrote ‘Golden Prophet’ about my personal experience as a survivor of sexual abuse,” she wrote to Rolling Stone in an email. “It’s the one thing …
Read More »'Pet Sematary': Watch Bone-Chilling First Trailer of Stephen King Remake
Thirty years after Stephen King‘s Pet Sematary was first adapted for the big screen, the beloved horror novel will receive a fresh cinematic reimagining in 2019. The preview opens with a jump scare that harkens back to the King novel – the threat of speeding trucks down a rural road …
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Dierks Bentley has been on a Rocky Mountain high throughout 2018, stoked by the organic nature of his latest LP, The Mountain. Now, with the earthy and exhilarating video for his full-throttle rocker, “Burning Man,” featuring Brothers Osborne, he embraces calm reflection even as he navigates the rugged terrain of …
Read More »The GOP's Kavanaugh Victory Tour Is Live and Kickin'
President Trump will host a ceremony on Monday to swear in Brett Kavanaugh as the newest Supreme Court justice, but his status on the court was actually made official on Saturday, hours after the Senate voted 50-48 to confirm him. The battle to get those 50 votes was among the …
Read More »This Week in Music: Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, Robyn, DJ Snake
Listen to this week’s YouTube Music Playlist here. Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, “Shallow” Sounds like: A Million Memes Are Born Perfect for: Years of nostalgic karaoke A Star Is Born, which hits theaters today, is this year’s most buzzed-about film, thanks in part to the dramatic build of co-stars …
Read More »Review: 'Imagine: The Ultimate Collection' Goes Deep Inside John Lennon's Most Grandly Beautiful LP
“Yoko and I always live about two-thousand light years’ speed when we’re working,” John Lennon says in one of the 1971 interviews unearthed on the new box set Imagine: The Ultimate Collection. “It’s usually moving very fast and there’s always a small hurricane around us.” But John was kidding about …
Read More »How R&B Survivor Peabo Bryson Fought His Way Back to Radio
The week Paul McCartney released his new album Egypt Station, his single “Come On to Me” reached roughly 1.5 million radio listeners thanks to the combined support of two formats, Adult Contemporary and Adult Album Alternative, plus major promotional endorsements from iHeartRadio, YouTube, Spotify and Amazon Music. These were impressive …
Read More »How Geoff Emerick Helped the Beatles Reinvent Music
Geoff Emerick was just a lad of 19 when he became the Beatles’ engineer, bringing his own brash approach to the experimentation the band was beginning to try in the studio. The immediate result: Revolver, the 1966 masterpiece that forever changed pop music. “A lot of that was down to …
Read More »Review: Lil Wayne's Long-Delayed 'Tha Carter V' Reminds Us Why He's One of the Greats
The best thing about Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V is that it exists. It finds the man who once called himself “the best rapper alive” – and who, for a few years in the late 2000s, indisputably lived up to that boast – finally emerging from five years of personal …
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