Over 200 ofLinkin Park‘s used instruments,including guitars, keyboards, megaphone, samplers and other music gear from the band’s personal arsenal, will be auctioned off to benefit the group’s Music for Relief nonprofit.Reverb.com will host the April 4th sale. Fans will be able to bid on include the Moog Etherwave Plus Theremin …
Read More »Donald Sutherland: 'Trust,' Sympathy for the Devil and 60 Years Onscreen
There are several Donald Sutherlands you’re likely to meet if you start spelunking through the nearly six decades of this Canadian actor’s screen career. There’s the sparkle-eyed Sixties hippie in he-man war films, the type of wonderfully anachronistic presence that enlivens movies like The Dirty Dozen (“Madison City, Missouri, sir!” …
Read More »M.I.A. Says Jay-Z Pushed Her to Sign 'Ridiculous' NFL Lawsuit Deal
M.I.A. said her former manager Jay-Z urged her to agree to a lawsuit settlement with the NFL that would have allegedly allowed the organization to keep 100 percent of her earnings if she earned more than $2 million. In an interview with Huck, M.I.A. discussed the lawsuit, which stemmed from …
Read More »Chris Stapleton, Jack White to Headline 2018 Pilgrimage Festival
UPDATE: Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds have been added to the lineup of the 2018 Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival, held in Franklin, Tennessee. The acoustic duo join Chris Stapleton, Jack White and Lionel Richie as headliners. Chris Stapleton will return for his second official appearance at the annual Pilgrimage …
Read More »See Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson's Elegiac Tribute to Johnny Cash
It’s more than two decades since the Highwaymen regrouped for The Road Goes on Forever, the final album from the country supergroup. Even so, three of the band’s members – two living and one deceased – team up in a way on “Forever/I Still Miss Someone,” the kickoff track from …
Read More »'N Sync vs. Backstreet Boys: Remembering Their Fierce Boy-Band Rivalry
In the 2015 Backstreet Boys documentaryShow ‘Em What You’re Made Of, a single telling scene sums up the strange tension that arose between two of the biggest-selling boy bands of all time. “It was almost like a betrayal,” Kevin Richardson recalled in the doc, looking back at the moment in …
Read More »Sebastian Robertson Talks New Doc Score, Writing With His Father Robbie
“In any job, there are times where you do things out of necessity in order to pay the bills,” says Sebastian Robertson. “And then there are times where you create things that feel more artistically inspired. This was definitely one of those times – I was inspired by what was …
Read More »John Oliver Talks Inspiration Behind Mike Pence-Trolling Book on 'Ellen'
John Oliver discussed the personal and political motivations behind his new Mike Pence-trolling children’s book, A Day In the Life of Marlon Bundo, on Ellen Tuesday. The book came out of a segment on Oliver’s HBO show, Last Week Tonight, in which he detailed the Vice President’s lengthy history of …
Read More »Bill Hader on 'SNL': 3 Sketches You Have to See
Each episode of Saturday Night Live is its own beast, complete with its own rhythms. There’s zero predictability about what will unfold, which is precisely of the point of its inherent architecture. On paper, having Bill Hader return to Studio 8H to host should have been a slam dunk. Instead, …
Read More »John Prine on Fatherhood, Johnny Cash, Writing 'Angel From Montgomery'
Since breaking through in 1971 with a classic album he wrote as a mailman in Illinois, John Prine has created some of the strangest, funniest, most surreal and most enduring songs of our time. He’s been covered by Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Bonnie Raitt (who popularized his classic “Angel …
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