Robbie Robertson staged his first late-night performance in eight years Wednesday with a rendition of “Let Love Reign,” the John Lennon-inspired song from the former Band leader’s new album Sinematic. The Tonight Show house band the Roots backed the guitarist for a brassy take on the track. In a statement, …
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Lawyers for Brendan Dassey, one of the two men convicted in the murder featured in the Netflix docuseries Making a Murderer, announced Wednesday that they will seek clemency from the Wisconsin governor for their client. “We’re filing a petition for executive clemency with Governor Tony Evers of Wisconsin,” Dassey’s attorney …
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Margot Robbie‘s Harley Quinn recruits a delightfully ruthless girl gang to take down a criminal mastermind in the new trailer for Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), out February 7th, 2020. The new Suicide Squad spin-off finds Quinn separated from her frequent partner-in-crime and -love, …
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Last week, the “transcript” of President Trump’s July 25th call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed that Trump tried to pressure Zelensky into investigating a debunked conspiracy theory: that Russia’s well-documented interference in the 2016 election actually originated in Ukraine. On Sunday, it was revealed that Trump already knew the …
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Mott the Hoople have canceled the fall leg of their first North American tour in 45 years after frontman Ian Hunter developed a severe case of tinnitus. The fall tour was set to kick off October 21st in Port Chester, New York, and wrap November 6th in Seattle, Washington. Per …
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Tegan and Sara visited The Late Show Friday – the day both their new album Hey, I’m Just Like You and memoir High School were released – to perform “I’ll Be Back Someday” and sit down with Stephen Colbert to discuss the projects. “We wanted to write our origin story,” …
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Former Replacements bassist Tommy Stinson is the first to admit that his band’s sixth album is not his favorite. When the Replacementsmade 1989’s Don’t Tell a Soul, their record label was pressuring frontman Paul Westerberg to write songs that could get played on the radio, and the group ended up …
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“I’m a ghost on the radio,” sings Jon Pardi in “Call Me Country,” a swaying, steel-drenched track that arrives near the end of his new album Heartache Medication. Name-checking his country-music heroes like Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Merle Haggard, the California native places himself in the same lineage — …
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Twenty-five years after Harry Nilsson died of a heart attack at the age of 52, his estate has announced a new album of unreleased material. Titled Losst and Founnd, the record will arrive on November 22nd via Omnivore Recordings. Nilsson was working on the record at the time of his …
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Robert Hunter, the poet and writer who provided the Grateful Dead with many of their vivid and enduring lyrics, died Monday night. He was 78. No cause of death was provided. “It is with great sadness we confirm our beloved Robert passed away yesterday night,” Hunter’s family announced in a …
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