Spike Lee responded to Chance the Rapper’s criticism of his new movie Chi-Raq by noting the rapper’s father, Ken Williams-Bennett, works with Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel in an interview on MSNBC. “Show me where he made a criticism about the mayor,” Lee said of Williams-Bennett, who serves as Emanuel’s deputy chief of staff and… Source: RollingStone Link: Spike […]
Alessia Cara’s defiantly grumpy breakthrough hit, “Here,” was about feeling like an “antisocial pessimist” who opts out of alcohol- and weed-tinged parties. On another single from her debut LP, “Wild Things,” the 19-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter declares that she won’t “hang around the in-crowd/The cool kids aren’t cool to me.” Okay,… Source: RollingStone Link: Know-It-All
Good impressionists are hard to come by, but for every few hacks doing awful Obama impressions at your local comedy club, there are guys like Bill Hader and Fred Armisen – legit comedic shapeshifters who can masterfully inhabit new and absurd identities. The two Saturday Night Live alums’ latest project is the… Source: RollingStone Link: Catalina Breeze
Patience is a necessary virtue for the Erykah Badu fan. Since making her ground-breaking, ankh-rocking debut with 1997’s Baduizm, she has only released four studio albums. And aside from throwing us the occasional commercial bone (like “Window Seat” on her last LP, 2010’s stellar New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh), she… Source: RollingStone Link: But You […]
“Have you ever been dumb enough to do what you wanted to do?” Dave Grohl croons on the swampy ballad “Iron Rooster,” the sole respite from rocking on Foo Fighters’ Saint Cecilia EP. The lyric is more a dare than a question, and it captures the spirit of the hard rockers’ bucket-list… Source: RollingStone Link: Saint Cecilia
Dolly Parton’s impeccable gift for turning an intimately personal anecdote into a universally embraced anthem has never been truer than with her “Coat of Many Colors.” The intricately detailed story song, which she recorded in April 1971 just as her solo career was beginning to take off, is one of… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: See […]
A recently released search warrant filed by the Bloomington Police Department has detailed the scene in the tour bus bedroom where Scott Weiland was found dead last week. In addition to the two baggies of a white substance that later tested positive as cocaine, authorities found a number of medications,… Source: RollingStone Link: Scott Weiland's […]
Brett Eldredge and Thomas Rhett’s co-headlining CMT on Tour: Suits and Boots trek is drawing to a close, with only two shows remaining on the itinerary. Both guys released their second albums earlier in the fall (Tangled Up for Rhett, Illinois for Eldredge), so the equally-matched pair has taken turns… Source: RollingStone Link: See Thomas […]
Depeche Mode singer Dave Gahan basks in the illustrious, inspiring light of New York City in the new video for “Shine,” off his album with production duo Soulsavers, Angels and Ghosts. The clip cuts between myriad NYC moments and Gahan and model Rebekah Underhill sauntering around a room beautifully lit by dangling filament bulbs. It’s… Source: RollingStone Link: Dave […]
When Good Charlotte reunites, the paparazzi follow. The band, led by twin talents Benji and Joel Madden, played an intimate comeback gig at Los Angeles’ famed Troubadour in late November. The 300-cap room is usually occupied by indie aspirants; that night, it was the Maddens and their friends: 5 Seconds of Summer,… Source: RollingStone Link: Good Charlotte's […]