Trent Reznor, Pharrell and the RZA are among a handful of musicians to score Emmy nominations this year for their work on various television programs. Reznor and his long-time musical partner Atticus Ross picked up their first two Emmy nominations for their work on Watchmen, the hit miniseries that led …

Kevin Smith has dropped a delightfully deranged trailer for his upcoming horror flick/campy bloodbath, Killroy Was Here. As the title suggests, the film is loosely based on the “Kilroy was here” graffiti — popular among American soldiers during World War II — which depicted a man with a long nose …

Hidden within the new Taylor Swift album we were gifted with at the stroke of midnight is a teenage love triangle, told from distinct perspectives in three separate songs: “Cardigan,” “August,” and “Betty.” “I created character arcs and recurring themes that map out who is singing about who,” she explained. …

A federal judge ordered Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen to be released to home confinement after finding that the government had sent him back to prison in retaliation for Cohen’s plan to write a book about the president. Cohen had been held in solitary confinement in a New York federal …

The Weeknd takes an animated look back at his chameleonic career in Abel Tesfaye’s new video for “Snowchild,” a track off the singer’s After Hours. The visual — directed by the D’ART Shtajio studio, the first black-owned animation studio in Japan — gives an illustrated look at Tesfaye’s many personas, …

When the guys in One Direction teased that they were doing something special to celebrate the group’s 10th anniversary this month, fans around the world started speculating that it was a big reunion announcement. Instead, the group announced that they would be releasing a trove of archival content, including music …

In a decidedly non-traditional year, superstar Carrie Underwood has joined countless fellow country artists to keep one musical tradition going. With six studio LPs to her credit and a string of sold-out tours, Underwood will releases her first Christmas album this fall. Titled My Gift, the Yuletide collection arrives September …

The American Music Awards are on for 2020 — even in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has prevented most mass gatherings and postponed many awards shows this year. The show will air as a three-hour broadcast on Sunday, November 22nd, ABC and Dick Clark Productions announced on Friday. …

In 2005, Andrew Fried met a group of young men who he’d seen perform a somewhat unclassifiable stage show. They took elements of Second City/UCB-style comedy, starting with gathering suggestions from the audience; scraps of paper with words were dropped into pails stationed at the front of the theater. Then …

Graphic depictions of traumatic violence (eye-gouging with a spoon) and sexual depravity (don’t ask) had a good percentage of the audience sprinting for the exits when The Painted Bird premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year. Now available on demand, this WWII drama may have you running for cover …