Taylor Swift performed a solo rendition of piano ballad “New Year’s Day,” the closing track from her newly issued LP Reputation, in an intimate live video. The clip, which aired Thursday during a commercial break for ABC’s Scandal, found Swift surrounded by 100 handpicked fans in the living room of …
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One year after releasing The Weight of These Wings, Miranda Lambert gave a stunning performance of the album’s slow-dancing stunner “To Learn Her” at the 2017 CMA Awards. The performance echoed her appearance at the ACM Awards earlier this year, when Lambert dismissed her touring band and, instead, delivered a …
Read More »Britney Spears' Watercolor Painting Auctioned Off for $10,000
Britney Spears‘ latest creative venture isn’t a musical one – a watercolor painting the singer previously shared on her Instagram account recently sold for $10,000 at a Las Vegas charity auction. The piece, which features five flowers (four larger ones and one smaller one) in hues of pink, purple and …
Read More »GSP's Historic Comeback at UFC 217: 'Greatest Night' of His Career
Georges St-Pierre did something that’s never been done over the course of UFC history on Saturday when he returned from a nearly four-year layoff to defeat Michael Bisping and become new UFC Middleweight champion. It was the perfect way to conclude UFC 217, which took place at Madison Square Garden …
Read More »Rob Sheffield on Megyn Kelly's Morning-Show Catastrophe, Biggest Gaffes
Every morning of Megyn Kelly Today is a priceless time capsule of this moment in America – future historians will analyze it and ask how the hell this happened. Lord, what a sloppity-slop mess. Kelly made her name on Fox News as the network’s resident independent thinker, but since it …
Read More »Nikki Bella on 'DWTS' Elimination, John Cena, WWE 'SmackDown'
There could have been worse weeks for Nikki Bella to be voted off Dancing With the Stars‘ ballroom floor. After lasting nearly two months into ABC stalwart’s 25th season, Nikki and her partner Artem Chigvintsev took their final bows the night before Halloween. But her fall was cushioned by, appropriately, …
Read More »Flashback: George Harrison Plays a Sublime 'Something' at Last Concert
George Harrison headed into the Nineties with incredible momentum. His 1987 LP Cloud Nine turned him into a very unlikely pop star thanks to the hit “I Got My Mind Set On You” and the Traveling Wilburys gave him more media exposure than he’d had since the immediate aftermath of …
Read More »Hear Franz Ferdinand's Winding, Synth-Heavy New Song 'Always Ascending'
Franz Ferdinand veer into experimental disco-rock on their bold new single, “Always Ascending,” the title-track of their newly announced fifth LP, out February 9th, 2018 via Domino Records. The single opens with frontman Alex Kapranos crooning about clouds (“Cirrus caress you, cumulus kiss you”) over a wispy, reverb-heavy piano pattern. …
Read More »How Trump Is Crippling Storm Forecasting Just When It's Getting Good
As Hurricane Harvey roared toward the Texas coast in late August, weather models showed something that forecasters had never seen before: predictions of four feet of rainfall in the Houston area over five days – a year’s worth of rain in less than a week. “I’ve been doing this stuff …
Read More »See Zac Brown Tourmate Caroline Jones' Bucolic 'Country Girl' Video
Caroline Jones heads back to the family farm and trades in glitzy, big-city heels for practical, down-home cowboy boots in the idyllic new clip for “Country Girl,” premiering today on Rolling Stone Country. “That song is probably the most traditional country song I’ve ever written, and it’s the word-for-word story …
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