Not long after Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam immolated what was left of his political career, I got the Reverend Dr. William Barber on the phone. The fiery civil rights leader, known for founding the Moral Mondays movementand for revivingRev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign, did not focus …

Enemies from The Fast & The Furious franchise unite to save the world in the explosive first trailer for Hobbs & Shaw, a spinoff of the action series starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Jason Statham. Brutal adversaries in Furious 7and reluctant allies in The Fate of the Furious, the …

Lil Peep enjoyed a devoted following on SoundCloud and YouTube during his lifetime, but he was not the type of artist whose music was beamed out to millions over the radio. That all changed with “Falling Down,” a posthumously released collaboration with XXXTentacion. This single was not just a radio …

Garth Brooks will make two appearances during the 2019 Country Radio Seminar in Nashville, including a rare, solo acoustic performance at the city’s Bridgestone Arena. Taking place on Wednesday, February 13th, the one-man show promises to be an intimate-yet-massive affair reminiscent of Brooks’ 2008 – 2014 Las Vegas theatre residency, …

Paul Simon discussed revisiting and revising old songs for his new album, Into the Blue Light, and performed two tracks from that album on The Late Show Monday. In an interview with Stephen Colbert, Simon said that, in making the album, he wanted to focus on deep cuts that hadn’t …

Jerrod Niemann has announced plans to play a few headlining shows in 2019. The “Old Glory” singer revealed dates for a spring tour, dubbed Live in Concert: Jerrod Niemann Tallboys and Short Stories, on Tuesday. The trek launches March 15th in Kansas City, Missouri, and stretches through mid-May with several …

Judas Priest dug deep into their catalogue for the Paris kickoff concert to their European tour Sunday night, pulling out hitman diary “Killing Machine” for the first time since November 1978. Frontman Rob Halford, forever clad in studded-black leather, leans into his mic to sing the song’s lyrics about hunting …

Yebba Smith’s gospel roots bleed through her single “Evergreen,” a slow-burning ballad full of mettle and longing. It’s over a year old now, but very worth revisiting — especially as Smith gets ready to contend at the 2019 Grammy Awards for another song, her PJ Morton collaboration “How Deep Is …

Billy Joel was thirteen songs into his set at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night when he decided to reach deep into his catalog and resurrect a song that only his most devoted fans would recognize. “We’re gonna try something we’ve never played before,” he said. “This may lay like …

Until now, the Russian infiltration of the National Rifle Association has looked like a sidecar to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 election. The prosecution of Maria Butina, the lifetime NRA member who in December pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges of seeking to act …