A lot of famous performers have been booted off of Saturday Night Live over the years — from Norm Macdonald, to Jenny Slate, to Adam Sandler and Chris Farley. Which may seem pretty cold-hearted and foolish, but that’s […]
Ricky Gervais was once a thriving pop star before he made his career in comedy. The British comedian, 62, actually moonlighted as a singer in the 1980s, forming a band called Seona Dancing. The “Office” […]
Portishead’s Beth Gibbons has finally announced her debut solo album. Out May 17, the decade-in-the-making LP is called Lives Outgrown, and, below, you can watch director Tony Oursler’s kaleidoscopic video for the single “Floating on […]
Portishead singer Beth Gibbons has officially announced her long-awaited debut solo album. Set to premiere on May 17th via Domino, Lives Outgrown was produced by Gibbons with James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Depeche Mode), and features 10 […]
The Church and the Afghan Whigs and have announced a co-headlining tour of North America. The shows begin in June and will feature Ed Harcourt as support, with Kristin Hersh subbing in as the opener […]
The 2024 Grammy Awards took place on Sunday, February 4th. Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish, Phoebe Bridgers, SZA, Killer Mike, and Victoria Monét were among the night’s big winners. Swift became the first artist […]
Wayne Kramer, co-founder, guitarist, and singer of the influential Detroit rock band MC5, has died at the age of 75. Kramer’s passing was announced on Friday (February 2nd) in a post shared to Instagram, with […]
BBC Radio 2’s legendary Piano Room series kicks off tomorrow (January 29th), with some of the worlds biggest artists scheduled to perform alongside the BBC Concert Orchestra. Running from Monday, January 29th to Friday, February 23rd, […]
Kim Kardashian finds her most intense critics close to home as North West uploads six-minute “honest” review of her mom’s SKKN Makeup relaunch — including an iconic “emo” look! What’s that horror movie trope? The […]
What was the greatest decade in pop music? Well, we think that’s easily the ’60s. Motown, the Beatles, and psychedelic rock, are all game-changing moments in popular music. But the greatest single year in pop […]
Singer-songwriter Melanie, best known for performing at Woodstock and her No. 1 hit “Brand New Key,” has died at 76 years old. Melanie’s children — Leilah, Jeordie and Beau Jarred — announced the news on […]
The ultimate keyboard wizard, Rick Wakeman CBE, will be embarking on a tour of the U.S. with a series of solo piano concerts for the last time in 2024. Rick, who has become almost as […]
Part practical problem-solver and part esoteric theoretician, Brian Eno has been involved as a musician and producer on some of the most influential music of the past 50 years, a daunting list of collaborators that […]
Shout! Studios is about to make Jim Henson fans’ fantasy a reality. Actually, it’s combining two fantasies into one. It’s bringing both Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal back to digital. And when these The Jim […]
With a career spanning over three decades, English rock legends Bush are certainly no strangers to the tumultuous nature of a life in music. Long underappreciated and underestimated by the industry, since the release of […]
When Annie Nightingale, who has died aged 83, first approached the BBC in the hope of getting on the radio, she was instantly rebuffed. Her qualifications were inarguable: as a young journalist working in local […]
Jeffrey Wright, star of Cord Jefferson’s provocative debut feature American Fiction, says he felt a personal affinity with his character Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison in the film, in part because of the challenges Monk experiences with regard […]
Wilco have shared a cover of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” in honor of the late artist’s 77th birthday. Check it out below. The band said in a statement: “As a gratefully, if not begrudgingly, Earth-bound […]
Monday, January 8th, would’ve been David Bowie’s 77th birthday. To mark the occasion, Wilco has shared their rendition of Bowie’s 1969 hit, “Space Oddity.” The release hails from Wilco’s 2023 performance on Mountain Stage (a […]
Have you heard? 2023 was the year concert films saved cinema — or at least boosted movie theaters. Normally, it would be difficult to wrangle up enough notable entries to warrant an end-of-year concert movie […]