So what’s shakin’ on the old tube this month, you ask? NBC re-introduces a cult sitcom yanked back from the brink of cancellation; Showtime’s got a snazzy period piece set in the coke-fueled world of high finance; Comedy Central pulls back the curtain on a new project from a pair …
Read More »
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was not happy with President Trump’s recent decision to pull U.S. troops out of Syria. Trump was not happy that Graham was not happy, and the senator is now angling to get back in the president’s good graces before the new year. On Sunday, he spent …
Read More »
Barack Obama continued his annual tradition of revealing his favorite books, movies and songs of the year, with the former president-turned-tastemaker including tracks by Cardi B, Janelle Monáe, Prince and the Carters on his 2018 list. Obama said of his annual list, “It gives me a moment to pause and …
Read More »
“RealLife Rock Top Ten” is a monthly column by cultural critic and RS contributing editorGreil Marcus. 1. Rich Kreuger, “Kenny’s (It’s Always Christmas in This Bar,” from NOWThen (RockkinK Music). Years ago in Chicago, in the middle of winter, my friend Bill Wyman was taking me to a bar: “Chicago’s …
Read More »
Tove Lo takes fans on an intimate tour backstage following an emotional live appearance in the new video for “Hey You Got Drugs?,” which featured on the singer’s 2017 album Blue Lips. Lo released the video as a thank you to the fans who saw her as she toured in …
Read More »
Here’s the thing about year-end lists: They’re inherently imperfect. As editors, writers and critics, we take in as much as we can, assess what’s in view and try to come up with rankings that make sense. But inevitably we miss titles that could have ended up in the running if …
Read More »
Multiple women recount the sexual, mental and physical abuse R. Kelly forced them to endure in this exclusive clip from the upcoming Lifetime docuseries Surviving R. Kelly. “I felt like my silence allowed it to continue,” Kitti Jones, who shared her story with Rolling Stone for an article titled “Surviving …
Read More »
By day, Jennifer Turner works in law enforcement in Vancouver. But on this particular late August weekend, she’s in Cleveland, attending JemCon, an annual gathering for devotees of the colorful Eighties cartoon Jem and the Holograms. Turner’s fandom runs deep. She grew up with a single father who supported her …
Read More »
Randy Houser returns to bluesy big-voiced ballads like his 2008 breakout hit “Anything Goes” and the 2010 album cut “Somewhere South of Memphis” on his new song “No Good Place to Cry,” a track off his upcoming LP Magnolia. The Mississippi native recently released the song by setting it to …
Read More »
Linda Ronstadt‘s extraordinary genre-hopping career encompassed more than two dozen studio LPs and several greatest-hits compilations but one format that had been missing from her discography until now was a live album. On February 1st, Rhino will issue Live in Hollywood, featuring 12 performances handpicked by Ronstadt from a 1980 …
Read More »