When Jimmy Kimmel asked Billie Eilish to name any member of Van Halen on his show a few weeks back, she couldn’t. “Who? No, who is that?” she asked him. “I’m gonna start crying,” he said. This supposed lack of knowledge kickstarted a stream of invective on the Internet by …
Read More »The Black Crowes Are Finally at Peace. It Took Six Years
On the second floor of a Brooklyn recording studio nestled between an ice cream parlor and bridal shop, the Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson is wailing through “Struttin’ Blues,” a deep cut off the group’s 1990 debut album, Shake Your Money Maker. His on-again, off-again bandmate and on-again, off-again brother Rich …
Read More »Musicians on Musicians: Lenny Kravitz & H.E.R.
M y early memories are waking up to the smell of breakfast and hearing concert DVDs of you,” H.E.R. tells Lenny Kravitz. The 22-year-old singer (real name Gabi Wilson) is talking about growing up the daughter of a dad in a funk-rock cover band. Kravitz, 55, says he was raised …
Read More »Bryan Cranston on 'El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie'
(This post contains spoilers for El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, which Netflix released last week.) Since El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie was announced, one question has been at the forefront of every Breaking Bad fan’s imagination: Would Bryan Cranston reprise his role as Walter White? Walt dies at …
Read More »Travers: Peter Fonda, The Easiest Rider of Them All
The Easy Rider himself, Peter Fonda, was pushing 80 when he passed away early Friday morning — it was respiratory failure due to lung cancer that took him out. But that gamechanging 1969 movie made him immortal, freezing him in time as Wyatt, the stoned biker chasing an elusive freedom. …
Read More »Jeffrey Epstein Autopsy Finds Broken Bones in Neck, Cause of Death Still Pending
An autopsy following the “apparent suicide” of Jeffrey Epstein revealed that the convicted sex offender and disgraced financier had broken bones in his neck at the time of his death. That includes the hyoid bone, which when broken is more consistent with victims of strangulation than hangings, the Washington Post …
Read More »The Myth Of Robert Mueller, Exploded
Start with the obvious. As political theater, the Democrats’ decision to put former Special Counsel Robert Mueller under oath was a catastrophe. The Democrats believed a televised hearing would give the legalistic Mueller report a PR kick. It was said people weren’t “reading the book,” but they might “watch the …
Read More »'BoJack' Creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg's Sweetly Sad, Darkly Comic First Book
Raphael Bob-Waksberg was trafficking in the missed connection before you even knew he existed. Back in 2013, before his animated show BoJack Horseman haunted our laptops, an anonymous message was posted on New York Craigslist under the rubric of “Missed Connection—m4w.” The post tells the old story of a man …
Read More »Coachella 2019: DJ Snake, Cardi B, Ozuna, Selena Gomez Perform Surprise 'Taki Taki'
French artist-producer DJ Snake lit up Coachella‘s Outdoor Theatre on Friday night — and we’re not just talking the pyrotechnics. The DJ closed out his hour-long set by inviting Cardi B, Ozuna and Selena Gomez onstage to perform their 2018 reggaeton hit, “Taki Taki.” Ozuna opened the track by singing …
Read More »Drumming Great Hal Blaine: 5 Classic Performances
“Hal Blaine was such a great musician and friend that I can’t put it into words,” Brian Wilson wrote on Twitter Monday after news of the legendary session drummer’s death began to circulate. “Hal taught me a lot, and he had so much to do with our success — he …
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