Queens of the Stone Age served up a guitar-less, strings-laden rendition of their “Villains of Circumstance” during a visit to Later… With Jools Holland Tuesday. For the unique performance, QOTSA’s Josh Homme and, on piano, Dean Fertita guide a strings section through the Villains closer, stripping the atmospheric track of …
Read More »Maren Morris Talks Las Vegas Shooting, Response Song 'Dear Hate'
On Monday morning, Maren Morris woke up to 50 text messages from friends and family. Two nights after Morris had performed on the main stage at Las Vegas‘ Route 91 Harvest Festival, loved ones were frantically trying to reach her: Did she make it home OK? Was everyone she knew …
Read More »Inside the Birth of the Velvet Underground
To Lou Reed, the legendarily cranky singer-songwriter, Rolling Stone contributing editor Anthony DeCurtis was a true rarity: a music journalist that Reed actually liked. The pair encountered each other many times over DeCurtis’ decades as a writer and editor, and after Reed’s death in 2013, DeCurtis turned his admiration for …
Read More »Watch Foo Fighters' Drum-Off With James Corden on 'Carpool Karaoke'
Foo Fightersroared through old hits with James Corden during their surprise installment of “Carpool Karaoke.” The entire band squeezed into Corden’s car forTheLate Late Show sing-along segment, which culminated with a three-way drum-off at Guitar Center. Corden and Grohl belted emphatically from the opening moments of Foo Fighters‘ “All My …
Read More »Kimmel Skewers Health Care Bill Author: 'Bill Cassidy Lied to My Face'
UPDATE: Bill Cassidy has responded to Jimmy Kimmel‘s takedown of the politician’s proposed health care bill. “I’m sorry he does not understand,” Cassidy told CNN Wednesday morning. “Under [the bill], more people will have coverage and we protect those with pre-existing conditions.” When host Chris Cuomo noted that pre-existing conditions …
Read More »Bill Skarsgard on 'Really, Really Disturbing' Scene Cut from 'It'
Bill Skarsgård revealed in a new interview that the recently released remake of Stephen King‘s It, for all its box-office success and nostalgic terror, originally included a scene that even he considered “disturbing.” “There was a scene we shot that was a flashback from the 1600s, before Pennywise [was Pennywise],” …
Read More »'The Ethical Slut': Inside America's Growing Acceptance of Polyamory
In 1994, sexual educator Janet W. Hardy, was bedridden for a month with a bad flu that had evolved into bronchitis. She was, as she recalls, “high off my ass on Codeine cough syrup” when she caught a showing of Indecent Proposal on TV. Married couple David (Woody Harrelson) and …
Read More »Review: Ringo Starr Brings Rock & Roll Optimism, Just When We Need It
Jah bless Richard Starkey, rock’s mischievously minimalist id and Eternal-Optimist Emeritus, creative instincts forever stripping things back to their playfully swinging 4/4 peace’n’love-loving core. His umpteenth solo set is a well-timed all-star candygram. Paul McCartney kicks in basslines and Beatles screams on the hilarious war cry “We’re on the Road …
Read More »Kairi Sane on Conquering at Mae Young Classic, Heading to Houston
Only in professional wrestling can a former yachting champion and aspiring actress from Japan conquer a South Dakotan MMA veteran known more for grounding opponents with chokeholds than outracing them in high-seas regattas. Such was the scene last night, as recent NXT signee and ex-World Wonder Ring Stardom standout Kairi …
Read More »Hear Lee Ann Womack's Ethereal New Song 'Hollywood'
Sitting in a house in Palm Springs, California with Waylon Payne and Adam Wright, the writers with whom she penned the recently debuted “All the Trouble,” Lee Ann Womack and the pair set their collective imaginative gaze two hours west toward Tinseltown, conjuring the moody and mournful tune, “Hollywood.” The …
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