Taylor Swift made a last-minute appearance on The Tonight Show on Monday to play a quiet, moving rendition of new song “New Year’s Day.” “New Year’s Day” is the final track on Reputation, a soft, keyboard-heavy outlier after a suite of crushing pop songs. On The Tonight Show, Swift played …
Read More »See Metallica Talk 'Master of Puppets' for Lars Ulrich's Beats 1 Show
Metallica talk about their 1986 classic Master of Puppets and the album’s new reissue in the latest episode of drummer Lars Ulrich‘s It’s Electric Beats 1 radio show. Apple Music released a series of videos from the episode, which Ulrich taped with James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett and Master of Puppets …
Read More »Watch Brett Young's Bizarre 'Flying Lawnmower' Song on 'Kimmel'
Brett Young was in the running for New Artist of the Year honors at Wednesday night’s CMA Awards, but on last night’s episodes of Jimmy Kimmel Live! the “In Case You Didn’t Know” singer was tasked with an arguably more important matter: writing a song to accompany a viral video …
Read More »Watch Lorde Cover Bruce Springsteen's 'I'm on Fire' in New Zealand
Lorde delivered a faithful cover of Bruce Springsteen‘s “I’m on Fire” at her Wednesday concert in Christchurch, New Zealand, her native country, where Springsteen previously covered her song “Royals” three years ago. Lorde told the audience that she and guitarist Ray Suen had just rehearsed the Born in the U.S.A. …
Read More »'Murder on the Orient Express': Whodunnit Redo Is Fast Train to Nowhere
Kenneth Branagh is a theater man at heart. So his spanking new version of the 1934 Dame Agatha Christie chestnut Murder on the Orient Express – Branagh directs and stars as world-famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot – feels more like an all-star, theatrically confined stage piece than something freshly reimagined …
Read More »Bikini Kill Reunite for First Live Performance in 20 Years
Bikini Kill, influential leaders of the feminist punk movement Riot grrrl, reunited Sunday night to perform their 1993 track “Tammy Rae,” marking their first live performance in two decades. Three of the band’s four members – singer-guitarist Kathleen Hanna, bassist Kathi Wilcox, drummer Tobi Vail – surprised the audience at …
Read More »Hear Miguel's Funky 'Told You So' From New LP 'War & Leisure'
Miguelembraces his funky side with “Told You So,” a new song from his upcoming fourth LP, War & Leisure, out December 1st via ByStorm Entertainment/RCA Records. The singer-songwriter utilizes nimble synth-bass and stabbing electric guitars on the upbeat cut, crooning his signature melismatic lines on the chorus. “I don’t want …
Read More »Brett Ratner Sues Woman for Libel Over Rape Accusation
UPDATE:Brett Ratner has dropped a defamation lawsuit against Melanie Kohler, who alleged in a Facebook post last year that the director and producer had raped her, Deadline reports. In a statement, Kohler’s lawyer said, “Cases like this are very difficult, especially when the events happened more than a decade ago …
Read More »Watch Blake Shelton Sing New Song, Eat Raw Onion on 'Fallon'
“I’m only here because Seth Meyers was booked,” Blake Shelton told a laughing Jimmy Fallon last night, seconds before the country singer bit into a caramel-covered onion. Let’s back up a bit. With a new album, Texoma Shore, arriving this Friday, Shelton has been in full court press mode, filling …
Read More »Thomas Rhett Plots Headlining 2018 Life Changes Tour
It’s been eight months since Thomas Rhett launched the Home Team Tour, his biggest headlining run to date. Now, with more than two dozen sold-out arenas under his belt, he’s planning a return to the road in 2018. Kicking off April 5th, 2018, the Life Changes Tour will occupy Rhett’s …
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