The rumors are true: Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck have recorded a new album, 18, that will arrive this summer. After jetting off to Europe to play some shows with the famed guitarist amid the closing of his contentious defamation suit against ex-wife Amber Heard, Beck teased that the duo …
Read More »Post Malone Expands 'Twelve Carat Toothache' With Two New Songs
Post Malone has tacked on a pair of bonus tracks — “Waiting for Never” and “Hateful” — to his latest album, Twelve Carat Toothache. The two tunes feature production from J. Lauryn and Malone’s frequent collaborator, Louis Bell. Both boast that quintessential Post Malone woozy hip-hop vibe, though on “Hateful,” …
Read More »Bruce Springsteen and Chris Martin Duet 'Working on a Dream' at New Jersey Coldplay Concert
Coldplay performed at Metlife Stadium for a second night on their Music of the Spheres tour on Sunday and treated the audience to a surprise appearance from New Jersey’s very own Bruce Springsteen. The musician joined Chris Martin for a back-to-back performance of “Working on a Dream” and “Dancing in …
Read More »Rascal Flatts' Joe Don Rooney Pleads Guilty to DUI
Rascal Flatts guitarist Joe Don Rooney will serve two days in jail and lose his driver’s license after pleading guilty on Wednesday to a 2021 DUI charge, according to The Tennessean. A Class A misdemeanor, it carried up to 11 months and 29 days of jail time. Rooney’s remaining sentence …
Read More »California's Reparations Task Force Takes on the Historic Theft of Black Art and Culture
The California Reparations Task Force has issued its first interim report, a nearly 600-page document that spends a full chapter focusing on the longstanding inequities surrounding the history of arts and entertainment in the United States. “Throughout American history, the federal government historically deprived Black American artists and innovators of …
Read More »Steve Earle Is Chasing Broadway Success — By Trying to Write a Mainstream Country Song
“I’m trying to get songs on country radio,” says Steve Earle. It’s not what anyone would expect to hear from Earle these days, especially when we’re supposed to be discussing Jerry Jeff, his new tribute album to Seventies Texas legend Jerry Jeff Walker. But even if the idea of a …
Read More »Guns, Rhymes, God, and Politics: Shyne's Epic Fall and Rise
At an empty beach bar in Corozal, a shaggy town of a few thousand people just minutes from where northern Belize meets Mexico’s share of the Yucatan Peninsula, waves crash into a jagged, rocky breakwater. It’s 9 p.m., the kitchenis about to close, and the only people left are some …
Read More »Chester Bennington's Grey Daze Share New Version of 'Starting to Fly'
Chester Bennington’s pre-Linkin Park band Grey Daze have updated their song “Starting to Fly” for The Phoenix, their upcoming second album of new music featuring vocals from the late singer. The track originally appeared on the Phoenix group’s 1994 LP Wake Me; prior to his 2017 death, Bennington expressed interest …
Read More »Read Taylor Swift's Inspiring Speech for NYU's Class of '22
Taylor Swift received a warm welcome to New York University on Wednesday when she accepted an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, from the institution. Swift attended the 2022 all-school commencement ceremony at Yankee Stadium and delivered a rousing speech for this year’s graduates. Earlier this year, Swift was …
Read More »Neil Patrick Harris Sorry for Serving Platter of Amy Winehouse's Corpse Months After Death
Neil Patrick Harris apologized for once serving a meat platter designed to look like Amy Winehouse‘s decaying corpse after a photo of the spread resurfaced online. Harris and his husband David Burtka had offered up the platter at Halloween party in 2011, three months after Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning …
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