When my boyfriend suggested I move in with him and his wife, I laughed directly in his face. It was one thing to date a married man, it was another thing for all of us to live together in a cramped apartment. It felt like a clumsy modern remake of …
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Kamasi Washington was hardly the first saxophonist to revive the so-called spiritual-jazz aesthetic of John Coltrane and his key successors like Pharoah Sanders. As early as the late Seventies, the late David S. Ware was combining blissful melodicism with mighty fervor in a way that pointed directly back to those …
Read More »Watch Lil Wayne Perform With Halsey, Rap About Consent With Future on 'SNL'
For his third appearance as a musical guest onSaturday Night Live, Lil Wayne took over Studio 8H to performtwo hits from his 2018 album Tha Carter V on the Liev Schreiber-hosted episode. To kick-off his set, Wayne brought an empowering performance of “Can’t Be Broken,” withHalsey making a surprise appearance …
Read More »Rick Scott Really Doesn't Want All the Votes to Be Counted in Florida
Florida Governor Rick Scott appeared to have won his race to replace incumbent Bill Nelson in the U.S. Senate. He gave a big victory speech on Tuesday night. President Trump even called to congratulate him. But Nelson knew not to concede. The race was close, there were still votes to …
Read More »'Overlord' Review: Your Basic WWII Soldiers vs. Nazi Super-Zombies Blockbuster
‘Fess up: You wanna see some Nazis get good and fucked up, don’t you? No, we’re not talking about the current plague of willfully ignorant racists and dangerously unstable, wild-card chuckleheads, though we’d be all too happy to see that collective pox on society fall off the face of the …
Read More »Lil Peep's 'Life Is Beautiful' Is a Somber Song About the Fear of Dying Alone
Lil Peep‘s Come Over When You’re Sober Pt. 2 is shaping up to be a different, albeit more intriguing beast than its predecessor. On songs like “Cry Alone” and “Runaway,” the rapper, who died late last year, left behind hints and scraps that his songwriting was transforming from its raw …
Read More »See Zac Brown Band Sing 'Bare Necessities' From 'Jungle Book'
It’s not every day your audience includes the most famous anthropomorphic rodent in the world, but in celebration of Disney legend Mickey Mouse’s 90th birthday, members of Zac Brown Band performed as Mickey looked on from the best seat in the house. Brown and company performed “Bare Necessities,” a song …
Read More »Muse Plot 'Simulation Theory' 2019 World Tour
Muse will promote their upcoming eighth studio album, Simulation Theory, with a massive world tour in 2019. Their North American arena leg launches February 22nd in Houston, Texas and wraps April 10th in Boston, Massachusetts, followed by a run of European and U.K. dates running throughout May, June and July. …
Read More »'Robin Williams: Comic Genius' Is a Comedy Completist's Dream
It’s hard to imagine the shock that a viewer might have felt if they’d tuned in to HBO late on Friday, October 27th, 1978. They would have recognized the comedian who bounded — literally bounded — on to the stage of that night’s On Location special, even if they didn’t …
Read More »See Rami Malek Talk Learning Freddie Mercury Moves, Singing on 'Ellen'
Rami Malek spent a lot of time studying for his role as Freddie Mercury in Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody. During his interview on Thursday’s Ellen, the actor said he loved Queen, “but I didn’t know the intimate details of Freddie’s life or Queen’s,” so he sought out all their archival …
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