The New Radicals will reunite for the first time in over 20 years to perform “You Get What You Give” as part of the Biden-Harris administration’s virtual “Parade Across America” event. The 1998 hit single resurfaced on the 2020 campaign trail as the handpicked walk-on song for Vice President-elect’s husband …
Read More »Jessica Campbell, 'Election' and 'Freaks and Geeks' Star, Dead at 38
Jessica Campbell, who played Tammy Metzler in Election, has died at the age of 38. Campbell’s family confirmed the news to TMZ,stating that Campbell died on December 29th, 2020, in Portland, Oregon.Campbell, who left acting to become a naturopathic physician, spent the day seeing patients at her practice, her cousin …
Read More »Sheldon Adelson's Playbook Was a How-to Guide for Breaking Democracy
WASHINGTON — It was a ritual of the modern Republican Party. House and Senate hopefuls locked in a tough reelection fight, outside consultants who wanted to refill their campaign coffers, presidential wannabes who dreamt of being the next commander-in-chief — they all made the pilgrimage to Las Vegas, and specifically …
Read More »Ed Bruce, 'Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys' Songwriter, Dead at 81
Ed Bruce, the country singer-songwriter behind hits including “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys,” died Friday, January 8th in Clarksville, Tennessee, from natural causes, according to his publicist. He was 81. William Edwin Bruce Jr. was born December 29th, 1939, in Keiser, Arkansas, and raised in …
Read More »GOP Senators Sign On to Hawley's Effort to Subvert Democracy
A number of Republican congressional elected officials announced their intent to vote against certifying the results of the Electoral College on January 6th. While this will not change the results of the election, it will lengthen the process of certifying them. The group of Republicans who released a joint statement …
Read More »'It's About a Certain Kind of Blackness': Steve McQueen on the Making of 'Small Axe'
Steve McQueen‘s five-film opus Small Axe concludes with Friday’s release of Education, the story of a boy named Kingsley (Kenyah Sandy), whose difficulty with reading has him reassigned to a school for the “educationally subnormal” — a.k.a. students for whom the British school system has abandoned all hope. Education completes …
Read More »Cindy Mizelle on Singing Backup for Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, and Mariah Carey
Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …
Read More »'The Prom' Review: A Broadway Musical Gets 'Glee'-ed to Death
The Prom starts with a bad review. Well, technically, Ryan Murphy‘s bells-and-whistles (and-klaxons-and-sirens-and-fire-alarms-and-jackhammers) adaptation of the 2016 musical that ended up on Broadway in 2018 kicks off with an inciting act of intolerance: Emma Nolan (Jo Ellen Pellman), a senior at James Madison High School in Edgewater, Indiana, wants to …
Read More »How Dawes' Taylor Goldsmith is Staying Optimistic
Last year, Dawes met producer Dave Cobb at his Nashville studio. The producer — who has made hit albums with Chris Stapleton, John Prine, and more —told the California band what he thought of their sound. “He’s like, ‘You know what I think Dawes needs?’” recalls Taylor Goldsmith, the band’s …
Read More »Mariah Carey Taps Ariana Grande, Tiffany Haddish, Snoop Dogg for Christmas Special
Mariah Carey has enlisted Ariana Grande, Tiffany Haddish, Snoop Dogg, and more for her new holiday extravaganza, Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special, premiering December 4th on Apple TV Plus. The special, per a release, will center around Carey helping Santa solve a last-minute “holiday cheer crisis” at the North Pole …
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