A heckling Andy Samberg thwarts Jimmy Fallon‘s late-night serenade of “Escape(The Piña Colada Song)” in a bizarre sketch from Tuesday’s Tonight Show. Peter (Fallon), decked out in a mushroom haircut, earrings and piano tie, smoothly croons Rupert Holmes’ 1979 soft-rock hit – with Samberg interrupting at every vocal pause to …
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Kevin Spacey appeared in a Nantucket, Massachusetts, courtroom on Monday for his arraignment on sexual assault charges. The felony charge of indecent assault and battery stems from a 2016 incident in which the actor allegedly stuck his hand down an 18-year-old man’s pants, grabbing his genitals, after buying him drinks …
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On December 20th, JoJo gave herself the best possible 28th birthday present: a reclaimed narrative. That day, the pop singer reissued 2004’sJoJo and 2006’sThe High Road — the early albums that made her a teenage superstar, before she plunged into what she has previously described as a “personal hell” of …
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Eighteen years ago, in a bar outside Kingston, New York, Mark Hogancamp — an illustrator who liked wearing women’s high-heels — was nearly beaten to death by five thugs. Waking up after nine days in a coma, the bruised, broken and brain-damaged ex-soldier had no recall of having served in …
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30 years later, 1988 still stands as rap’s greatest year. The lyrical molotovs of Nation of Millions and Straight Outta Compton, the post-modern (and pre-lawsuit) free-for-all of sampling, the national spotlight of a new show called Yo! MTV Raps and much more. To celebrate 30 years, Rolling Stone’s Best of …
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When Bob Lewis packed up his stuff and left Northeastern Pennsylvania for Nashville in 2014, he put a period on his involvement in the punk and hardcore scene that he helped define in the depressed coal-mining region. Bands like Lewis’s Bedford, Jay Morgans’ Soughwutt and Burial Ground offered an outlet …
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The Coen Brothers preview their idiosyncratic Western vision with a new trailer for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the duo’s upcoming Netflix anthology film. “Well, folks, things have a way of escalating our here in the west,” says Tim Blake Nelson’s titular, quick-witted gunslinger, introducing a stylish montage from the …
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Samantha Bee examined the Trump Administration’s latest attack on trans rights while highlighting the “rainbow wave” building ahead of the 2018 midterms on Full Frontal Wednesday. Earlier this week, The New York Times reported that the Department of Health and Human Services was working to create a legal definition of …
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Greta Van Fleet announced a massive world tour in support of their upcoming debut LP,Anthem of the Peaceful Army. The headlining 2019 trek launches January 29th in Sydney, Australia; after a run of international dates, a North American leg kicks off May 7th in Miami, Florida and wraps June 4th …
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When Americana pioneers Uncle Tupelo released their major-label debut, Anodyne on October 5th, 1993, it should have been the beginning of something big. In a way, it was. Led by Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy from tiny Belleville, Illinois, the alt-country movement’s promising breakout band was packing clubs in major …
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