Grand Ole Opry member Trace Adkins will return to the road this year on the Don’t Stop Tour 2019. The “You’re Gonna Miss This” singer announced an extensive series of shows on Tuesday. Beginning February 9th in San Antonio, Texas, Adkins will play shows through November, with 39 dates currently …
Read More »Pearl Jam: 'Chris Cornell's Death Has Been a Tough One to Wrap Our Heads Around'
It’s been six years since Pearl Jam released Lightning Bolt, and they’re feeling the need to write new music again. It’s just been slow going. “It’d be fun to record or even just write a song together,” bassist Jeff Ament says. “I think when Chris [Cornell] passed, that’s really been …
Read More »Trump Expected to Offer Border Compromise in Saturday Address
President Donald Trump announced that he will give an address from the White House at 4 p.m. on Saturday. According to Axios, the president’s speech is expected to include an offer to prolong protections to for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders in …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Take a Daytrip and Octavian, 'Stressed'
Take a Daytrip is the present and Octavian is the future — or, at least, he should be. On their new collaboration, the two meet: Take a Daytrip, the producing duo responsible for the chart hurricane known as Sheck Wes’s “Mo Bamba,” as well as Vince Staples’s “Home” from the …
Read More »Michael Cohen, Sex Symbol
Michael Cohen: so hot right now. On Thursday, theWall Street Journal reportedthat Donald Trump‘s former attorney and fixer paid the owner of an IT firm to rig an online poll in favor of Trump as he considered a run for president. According to the WSJ, in early 2015 Cohen agreed …
Read More »'The Beach Bum,' 'Us,' Johnny Cash Doc Lead 2019 SXSW Film Festival
Matthew McConaughey’s Harmony Korine-directed comedy The Beach Bum, Jordan Peele’s Get Out follow-up Us and documentaries about Johnny Cash, David Crosby and Lil Peep are among the films that will premiere at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival, which opens in Austin, Texas on March 8th. Us previously revealed that it …
Read More »See Lin-Manuel Miranda, 'Hamilton' Cast Perform 'The Story of Tonight' With Jimmy Fallon
Lin-Manuel Miranda, in his return to Hamilton, performed the musical’s “The Story of Tonight” alongside the show’s cast and Jimmy Fallon as The Tonight Show traveled Tuesday to Puerto Rico, where Miranda is staging a Hamilton residency to benefit the hurricane-ravaged island. Miranda, back in the Alexander Hamilton role after …
Read More »Hear the Drums Plumb Depression, Self-Care on Clever New Song 'Body Chemistry'
Indie pop outfit the Drums unveiled a deceptively chipper, yet instantly infectious new song, “Body Chemistry,” that will appear on their forthcoming album, Brutalism, out April 5th via Anti-. “Body Chemistry” finds a rumbling rush of drums anchored by a thick bass groove, over which Drums mastermind Jonny Pierce laces …
Read More »Jack Johnson Talks Willie Nelson, Surfing and Steve Earle's Guitar
Jack Johnson may have once lost a handful of cash to Willie Nelson in a stoned poker game, but he doesn’t hold a grudge: in fact, he showed up at Saturday night’s tribute, Willie: Life & Songs of an American Outlaw, to salute his idol (and apparent card shark) with …
Read More »Report: Kanye West Pulled Out of Coachella Over Dome Demands
Kanye West reportedly pulled out as Coachella headliner just days before the festival announced its 2019 lineup after organizers would not meet the rapper’s demands that a dome be built on the festival grounds. Billboard reports that on New Year’s Day, Coachella organizers were set to reveal West as one …
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