Have you ever wondered about the origins of “yacht rock”? Or how Van Morrison made his enigmatic classic? Look no further than these excellent new books. 3 Kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z and Hip-Hop’s Multibillion-Dollar Rise by Zack O’Malley GreenburgIn the past 20 years, hip-hop has produced enough wanna-be Warren …
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Tommy Wiseau, the idiosyncratic director and star of modern cult classicThe Room, isn’t going to play the Joker in Todd Phillips’ upcoming Batman movie. But that didn’t stop him from auditioning for the lead role in a hilarious, yet slightly disturbing, Nerdist video. The actor-filmmaker channels Heath Ledger‘s lunatic character, …
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Stormy Daniels answers the door of her Houston hotel room wearing little athletic shorts and a green Pantera tank top over a sports bra, her long blond hair in a loose ponytail. We shake hands and she jumps back onto her bed, sitting up with her legs tucked under her …
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Old Dominion dropped by NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers Wednesday night to perform their empowering track “Be With Me,” a grooving tune rooted in feel-good romance from the five-piece band’s second album, Happy Endings. Written by lead singer Matthew Ramsey, guitarist Brad Tursi and Ross Copperman, the song follows …
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Adam Levine, Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Nick Jonas and other musicians poked fun at themselves in the latest installment of Jimmy Kimmel Live‘s “Mean Tweets.” Many Twitter users cracked jokes about the celebrities’ looks. “Nick Jonas was cute back when he was in the Jonas Brothers, and now he …
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In the annals of Academy Awards telecast history, as the Oscars’ “In Memoriam” tribute has expanded each year, so too has the number of movie stars and other industry professionals inexplicably forgotten or otherwise ignored. With somber musical accompaniment by Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder, who paid tribute to the …
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It’s been a whirlwind week for former Arkansas Governor Mick Huckabee, whose appointment to the CMA Foundation’s board of directors was met with immediate criticism from several country-music industry professionals, due to his stance toward the LGBTQ community and his “deep involvement” with the NRA. Huckabee resigned from the board …
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Singer, songwriter and banjo player Ashley Campbell will release her debut album May 11th on her own Whistle Stop Records label. Titled The Lonely One, the LP will feature 13 songs co-written by the musician and daughter of the late Glen Campbell. “You can expect some fun songs and also …
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In the first episode of Altered Carbon, Netflix‘s bid for a big, dystopic sci-fi-blockbuster series, Takeshi Kovacs, played by Swedish-American actor Joel Kinnaman, drops to the floor, his naked body oozing out of body bag full of gelatinous preservatives that have kept this new corpus intact. With a fit of …
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It was late 2015, and director Ryan Coogler was feeling the call of Africa. Coogler, then 29, was just finishing up his second film, the soon-to-be-a-hit Rocky rebootCreed. He was starting to think about what came next. “I was grappling with something I’ve kind of been scraping at my whole …
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