Thom Yorke debuted the new song “Plasticine Figures” as the musical guest during The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: At Home Edition on Wednesday. The late-night host has been filming the 10-minute segments from his home each night featuring guests who are also social-distancing at home. Yorke’s “Plasticine Figures” performance …
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Former Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir has canceled all of his upcoming 2020 solo dates with his backing band the Wolf Bros. “The health, well-being and safety of everyone in our live music community continues to be our priority,” Weir explained in a joint statement with Wolf Bros Don Was …
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Lars Ulrich faced a conundrum when Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff invited him to be a guest for one of his company’s fireside chats this week. Usually Benioff’s musical guests have been playing a song at the end of the interviews, which are broadcast on Salesforce’s social media channels, and the …
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Last night, Trump sent all reasonable individuals’ heads spinning when he appeared to suggest during his daily COVID-19 press briefings that injecting disinfectant could help eliminate the virus from people’s bodies. “I see the disinfectant where it knocks [the virus] out [from a surface] in a minute, one minute, and …
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Dua Lipa, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Rita Ora, Ellie Goulding and many more have teamed for an all-star cover of Foo Fighters’ “Times Like These.” The band’s Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins also take part in the self-isolation rendition orchestrated by BBC Radio 1 Stay Home Live Lounge. The cover also …
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Former Vice President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden excoriated President Donald Trump for not taking responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic during an interview with James Corden on The Late Late Show Tuesday. Biden spoke about his early concerns about the coronavirus and recalled how, back in 2016, the …
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Paul McCartney performed a touching solo rendition of the Beatles’ “Lady Madonna” during Global Citizen’s One World: Together at Home special, which raised funds for global COVID-19 response efforts. “I’m very honored to be part of this program tonight that celebrates the true heroes: Our health care workers all around …
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Jimmy Webb, the iconic manager and buyer from famed New York clothing store Trash and Vaudeville, who later opened his own shop, named I NEED MORE, died Tuesday morning at the age of 62. Webb’s friend Heart Montalbano confirmed his death to Rolling Stone, adding that the cause of death …
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When Hal Willner died earlier this week after experiencing symptoms consistent with the coronavirus, the music producer, Saturday Night Live music supervisor and connoisseur of all things left-field and eccentric left behind more than just a series of offbeat and acclaimed tribute albums. Those collections mixed and matched everyone from …
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Stephen Colbert recapped Donald Trump‘s recent news briefing and criticized the Wisconsin Supreme Court in his latest homemade version of The Late Show on Tuesday. Colbert kicked off by noting how grateful he is to still be able to host his show, despite the fact that he’s not even sure …
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