Audacious, haphazard and absurd, Quavo Huncho is a debut solo album in name only. At its core, the project is a Quavo-curated playlist. Madonna inexplicably raps over a trap beat with Cardi B on “Champagne Rosé,” Drake continues to say nothing but sound effortlessly cool while doing it and Travis …
Read More »'Bad Times at the El Royale' Review: Retro Star-Studded Goof's Quite the Gamble
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 …
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 »Smashing Pumpkins Add New Dates to 30th Anniversary Tour
Smashing Pumpkinsadded a winter North American leg to their ongoing Shiny and Oh So Bright 30th anniversary reunion tour. With the band’s new album Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun – Billy Corgan’s first Pumpkins album with both guitarist James Iha …
Read More »Celine Dion Plots Final Dates of Las Vegas Live Residency
Celine Dion will conclude her long-running Las Vegas concert residency on June 8th, 2019. The singer announced 28 final shows at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, with the dates split into two stints: February 26th through March 16th, and May 14th through June 8th. The “My Heart Will Go On” …
Read More »Spotify Now Lets Artists Bypass Labels and Upload Their Own Music
On Thursday morning, Spotify will send invitations to several hundred independent artists in the U.S. inviting them to a new feature that allows them to upload songs and albums directly — without going through a single label company, distribution group or Spotify employee — and automatically receive royalty payments in …
Read More »Hulu Details New Season of 'Veronica Mars'
Hulu confirmed its Veronica Mars revival and offered new details about the show, which is set to arrive on the streaming service in 2019. The eight-episode new season will center around a serial killer who’s targeting spring breakers in Neptune, California and threatening the town’s crucial tourism industry. After the …
Read More »Watch Nine Inch Nails Perform 'The Perfect Drug' Live For First Time
Nine Inch Nails‘ just-launched Cold and Black and Infinite Tour continues to provide fans with unexpected surprises as the band’s Tuesday concert at Morrison, Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre featured their first-ever performance of “The Perfect Drug.” Despite its standing as a fan-favorite from the Lost Highway soundtrack, Trent Reznor had …
Read More »Anthony Bourdain Wins Posthumous Emmy Awards for 'Parts Unknown'
Anthony Bourdain was awarded posthumous Emmys Sunday night as the late chef’s work on Parts Unknown won Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program and Outstanding Informational Series or Special. Parts Unknown also took home awards for its editing, sound editing, sound mixing and its online series, but it was the …
Read More »Brothers Osborne Lampoon Bro Cliches, Space Force in 'Shoot Me Straight' Video
After casting “Donald Trump” as a bungling pawn-shop robber in their video for “It Ain’t My Fault,” Brothers Osborne once again poke fun at the President — or at least his pie-in-the-sky ideas — in the new clip for “Shoot Me Straight.” Vetting increasingly absurd treatments for their latest video, …
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