Four months after Stephen Colbert joked on The Late Show about a nu-metal band’s crowdsourcing efforts to buy a new tour van, the late-night show host not only helped purchase the vehicle but also starred in the group’s new music video. Colbert first mentioned Louisville, Kentucky’s Flaw in a March …
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Twelve years after Deadwood last aired on HBO, the network finally announced plans to revive the gritty Western series as a feature-length film. Plans for a Deadwood movie have routinely sputtered in the dozen years since the David Milch-produced show ended abruptly after its third season. However, HBO president Casey …
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My Morning Jacket‘s Jim James played his psych-rocker “No Secrets” as an online exclusive for Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. The singer-songwriter yelped in a ragged falsetto, his voice cracking over washes of electric guitar. The band –which included a rhythm guitarist, bassist, drummer and two backing vocalists who shimmied back …
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On the surface, it sounds like one of those true-life, triumph-over-adversity tearjerkers that Hollywood spoon-feeds folks with numbing frequency. But thankfully, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot approaches the cliff of sentiment without going over the edge. Based on the 1989 memoir by Portland, Oregon cartoonist John Callahan, …
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In the age of Trump, bipartisanship is considered a sin. So one would think that when Republicans and Democrats do pass a law together, it’d be for something so popular, it couldn’t be questioned politically: a nonbinding resolution on the cuteness of puppies, maybe, or a national ice cream giveaway. …
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In its original form, the Maren Morris, Zedd and Grey collaboration “The Middle” was prepped for dance glory –a summit of electronic music producers and a country-pop star embracing her inner disco diva. Since its release in January, the song has become an international hit and reached Number One on …
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