Saturday Night Live kicked off its final run of 2018 with a solid episode that seemed hellbent on hiding host Claire Foy as much as possible. If you actually mark the screen time of any particular host, it’s often extremely low compared to the episode’s full run time. But this …
Read More »Should the Beatles' White Album Have Been Even Longer?
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, devoted to the Beatles‘ White Album, Rob Sheffield makes a bold suggestion: Based on the discarded songs on the new “Super Deluxe” edition, it could have just as easily been a triple album. George Harrison’s “Not Guilty” and Paul McCartney’s “Junk,” …
Read More »Is This the Megyn Kelly Reckoning We've All Been Waiting For?
Megyn Kelly’s future at NBC is uncertain following controversy around a statement she made on the air on Tuesday. The network aired a rerun of Kelly’s 9 a.m. hour of the Today show on Thursday, and it’s unclear when —or if—she’ll be back. “Given the circumstances, Megyn Kelly Today will …
Read More »SiriusXM Is the New — and Newly Massive — Owner of Pandora
Satellite radio giant SiriusXM announced the $3.5 billion all-stock acquisition of Internet radio giant Pandora on Monday, which will bring the two companies together into a massive audio entertainment firm. In a press release, the two companies said that both brands (and their products and services) will continue to operate …
Read More »Hurricane Florence Is a Warning of What's to Come
Right now, Hurricane Florence is spinning toward the mid-Atlantic coast like a giant thermo-aquatic buzz saw. Hurricanes are fickle and can shapeshift at the last minute, but Florence is on track to be one of the biggest hurricanes in U.S. history, with winds that are expected to accelerate to 155 …
Read More »Burt Reynolds, Beloved Action Star, Dead at 82
Burt Reynolds, the charismatic, mustachioed movie star known for films likeDeliverance, Smokey and the Bandit and Boogie Nights, died Thursday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 82. Reynolds died of cardiac arrest. His niece, Nancy Lee Hess, said that the actor “has had health issues, however, this was totally …
Read More »Bob Dylan's 2018 Setlists Are Starting to Get Interesting
In the last few years, Bob Dylan‘s Never Ending Tour has featured plenty of thrilling moments with one major setback: little set list variation.While fans in the mid-2000s never knew what Dylan was going to play when he took the stage, since 2013 they have been all but guaranteed to …
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