UPDATE: The Louder Than Life festival announced its full 2019 lineup, including Slipknot, Ice Cube, Marilyn Manson, Stone Temple Pilots, Disturbed, Rob Zombie, Melvins, Andrew W.K., the Crystal Method, GWAR, Die Antwoord, A Day to Remember, Godsmack, Dropkick Murphys, Suicidal Tendencies, Anti-Flag, Redd Kross, Chevelle, Breaking Benjamin, Halestorm, Three Days …
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President Trump seems confident he’s going to be re-elected in 2020. He also seems prepared to challenge the results should a Democrat unseat him. While speaking Tuesday night at a National Republican Congressional Committee fundraiser, the president implied that the 2018 midterm elections were rigged in favor of Democrats, who …
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When Rolling Stone compiled our list of the 50 Greatest Grunge Albums, the MVP was clearly Soundgarden. Five of the band’s records made the cut — everything they released from their debut, Screaming Life, through 1994’s Superunknown — and two of those LPs placed in the top 10. Their 1991 …
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On April 27th, TBS will air Samantha Bee’s second-ever Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. While historian Ron Chernow regales guests at the real event in Washington, D.C. — after a furor about jokes made at Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ expense last year, he is the first host in 16 years …
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From Elizabeth Holmes to the college admissions scandal, we’ve found ourselves awash in stories of grifters lately. But we perhaps reached Peak Scammer Obsession last summer with the tale of Anna Sorokin, a.k.a. Anna Delvey, an aspiring socialite who managed to convince the New York City elite that she was …
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“I want to tell you something about me that you might not know,” began a post by Everclear’s Art Alexakis earlier this week. In the startling statement, Alexakis, 57, announced he had been diagnosed several years ago with multiple sclerosis, but had decided to finally go public with the news. …
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Lifetime has given the greenlight to two music-related projects, a miniseries on rap group Salt-N-Pepa and a biopic on gospel group the Clark Sisters. Queen Latifah is an executive producer for both projects via her Flavor Unit production company, with Mary J. Blige and Missy Elliott among the executive producers …
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“It’s my fucking Guy Clark record, so I’ll do the ones that I was more personally connected to,” says Steve Earle of the process of choosing exactly which songs to record for Guy, his new tribute album to the folk-country songwriter who succumbed to cancer in 2016. Earle has been …
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Before Joseph Jefferson penned a string of hits for the Spinners in the early Seventies, he and his band the Nat Turner Rebellion – named after the 1831 slave revolt – entered Philadelphia’s famed Sigma Sound Studios and, over the course of a few years, laid down more than a …
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About seven years ago, stories about “Bob Dylan‘s Rapping Grandson” flooded the internet. Pablo Dylan — the child of Bob’s oldest son, Jesse — was just 15 at the time and he was trying to promote his new mixtape. “My grandfather, I consider him the Jay-Z of his time,” he …
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