One of Keith Urban‘s earliest showcases in Nashville took place at the Exit/In, a beloved rock club northwest of downtown that has been operating for more than 40 years. By his recollection, Urban’s performance didn’t go so well: former Capitol Records boss Jimmy Bowen was there long enough to hear …
Read More »Brent Cobb Extends 2018 Ain't a Road Too Long Tour
On February 16th, Brent Cobb launches his headlining Ain’t a Road Too Long Tour with a show in Memphis, Tennessee, following supporting dates with Miranda Lambert’s Livin’ Like Hippies Tour and some high-seas performing aboard the Cayamo Cruise. The headlining trek, named for Cobb’s latest single, has now been extended …
Read More »Katie Couric Talks Matt Lauer Misconduct: 'Very Painful for Me'
Katie Couric opened up for the first time on her former Today co-host Matt Lauer’s sexual misconduct in a new interview. “The whole thing has been very painful for me,” Couric said. Speaking to People, Couric said of Lauer’s behavior, “The accounts I’ve read and heard have been disturbing, distressing …
Read More »Kendrick Lamar, Future, James Blake Team on Jay Rock's 'King's Dead'
Kendrick Lamar, who is helmingBlack Panther: The Albumalongside TDE’s Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith, teams up with TDE labelmate Jay Rock for a new song from the soundtrack, “King’s Dead.” The new tune also features Future and James Blake. Produced by Mike Will Made-It and Teddy Walton, the beat-shifting track features …
Read More »Hear Dan + Shay's Forlorn New Song 'Tequila'
With a song title like “Tequila,” it would certainly be easy to assume there’s a party about to pour forth for the next three minutes. But what the newly released track from silky smooth duo Dan + Shay unleashes instead is a nostalgic tale of heartbreak and regret, lamenting the …
Read More »Watch Meryl Streep Fail Oscar Quiz About Herself on 'Kimmel'
Meryl Streep flopped a pop quiz about her Academy Awards track record on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday. Streep has been nominated for a whopping 20 Oscars and host Jimmy Kimmel wanted to see how many of those films the actress could name in 60 seconds. If she got them all, …
Read More »10 Most WTF Moments of Lifetime's 'A Tale of Two Coreys'
How did it take so long to get a Lifetime movie about the Coreys? A Tale of Two Coreys is a tragic Hollywood rise-and-fall saga: two teen actors who make it big in the Eighties, complete with fire-hazard hair, drugs, groupies and pastel blazers. Corey Haim and Corey Feldman first …
Read More »The Last Word: Erykah Badu
Who are your heroes? My grandmothers, Thelma Gipson and Viola Wilson. They’re both 90. They keep me grounded. Thelma was a principal’s assistant at an elementary school. She made sure my siblings and I were properly fed, even when she was really tired. Viola worked for Rockwell International, which built …
Read More »Mike Tyson Breaks Ground on Marijuana Ranch in California
Mike Tyson is apparently getting into the marijuana business. The former heavyweight champion recently broke ground on a 40-acre plot of desert in California, which he intends on turning into a cannabis resort that produces “high quality strains of THC and CBD,”The Blastreports. Tyson also hopes to advance research on …
Read More »How Bob Dylan Crafted a Minimal New Sound on 'John Wesley Harding'
In the autumn of 1967, Bob Dylan took a mysterious trip to Nashville. “As I recall, it was just on a kind of whim that Bob went down,” Robbie Robertson, who had spent much of that summer wood shedding with Dylan and the rest of the Band in upstate New …
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