Hozier delivered a snappy rendition of “Almost (Sweet Music)” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Tuesday. The stripped-down cut is centered around prickly guitar lines and an energetic beat of claps and snaps that steadily builds to a soulful peak tinged with organ and choral vocals. “Almost” is a …
Read More »'Game of Thrones': Watch the Captivating New Trailer for the Show's Final Season
The armies of Westeros and Esteros prepare for one last fight in the chilling new trailer for the final season of Game of Thrones. Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) sets the tone for the trailer, which opens with footage of her running through a castle while she says in a voice …
Read More »Remembering Luke Perry, Gen-X's Teen Heartthrob
Luke Perry‘s first appearance on Beverly Hills, 90210 as West Beverly bad boy Dylan McKay aired on Perry’s 24th birthday. That was relatively young compared to some of his co-stars (Gabrielle Carteris turned 30 midway through that first season), but Perry had a lived-in face and physicality. And as the …
Read More »Police Who Shot Stephon Clark Will Not Be Charged, District Attorney Announces
The two police officers who shot and killed Stephon Clark while he was unarmed will not face criminal charges. In a statement on Saturday, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said the officers “acted lawfully under the circumstances.” Schubert said the officers, Terrence Mercadal and Jared Robinet, who shot …
Read More »How Tainy and J Balvin Made 'I Can't Get Enough'
Few producers had a better 2018 than Tainy, who, over the course of a remarkable eight-month stretch, helped steer three distinct, formidable projects — Cardi B, J Balvin and Bad Bunny’s “I Like It,” Balvin’s Vibras and Bad Bunny’s X100Pre — to Number One on their respective charts. Tainy is …
Read More »The First Time: Hannah Gadsby
Comedian Hannah Gadsby remembers her first on-stage performance, the time she made an audience member throw up, and how she became an accidental political activist (though she has no idea what she was protesting) in our latest installment of “The First Time.” Gadsby has been a working comedian and actor …
Read More »Mindy Smith Lines Up 2019 Solo Acoustic Tour
Singer-songwriter Mindy Smith will launch her first tour in six years in celebration of the 15th anniversary of her acclaimed debut album, One Moment More. The solo acoustic trek begins May 5th, at Eddie’s Attic in Decatur, Georgia, running through June 22nd in Knoxville, Tennessee, visiting a series of intimate …
Read More »What Is the Momo Challenge?
UPDATE: YouTube announced that they would no longer allow videos featuring Momo to be monetized — to feature ads before, after or during the clips — even if they come from respected news organizations who are reporting on the phenomenon, which is widely seen to be a hoax. **** From …
Read More »Oscars 2019: Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings Perform 'Buster Scruggs' Song
Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings performed their Oscar-nominated song “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” at the 91nd Academy Awards on Sunday night. Introduced by fellow Nashvillian Kacey Musgraves, the longtime musical partners donned matching embroidered Western suits to strum the song and harmonize in front of a …
Read More »Journey to Antarctica: Reckoning With Uncertainty
This is the eighth dispatch in a series from Jeff Goodell, who is in Antarcticainvestigatingthe effect ofclimate changeon Thwaites Glacier. Rob Larter was 23 when he made his first visit to Antarctica. The son of a public health inspector and a secondary-school teacher, Larter grew up in the gentle green …
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