As he reaches his 85th year, Nelson is writing, touring and smoking more than ever. His band and family members weigh in on what drives the Red Headed Stranger. "What else we got?" Willie Nelson asks. He's sitting with his famous battered guitar Trigger at his recording studio, located on the Cut 'N Putt golf course he owns in Spicewood, Texas. He's deep into a session of Frank Sinatra covers for […]
It’s been a humanist truism for some time to say that Shakespeare speaks to every age, transcending his time and place through the sheer force of his universal genius. But any honest student first encountering the plays will tell you differently, as will many a seasoned scholar who works hard to place the writer and his work in historical context. Even onetime director of London’s National Theatre, Nicholas Hytner, once […]
What an unforgettable night for Latin music! The 2018 Billboard Latin Music Awards celebrated all of the amazing stars and their chart-topping achievements, plus some fantastic performances from your favorite singers. Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B, Quavo, Maluma, Bad Bunny, Becky G, Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and many more of the biggest names hit the stage tonight. Telemundo broadcasted the grand event from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. With so many phenomenal finalists, which musicians took home awards […]
Gimme, gimme, gimme an ABBA reunion after more than 35 years. The legendary pop group announced on Friday that they are set to release two new songs for the first time since disbanding in 1982. The Swedish hitmakers, which include Björn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Fältskog, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, previously revealed that they were working on a virtual ABBA experience. This project was apparently so successful the quartet has decided to make music together once […]
Six years ago, Daron Malakian recorded an album for his side project, Scars on Broadway, Now, he's finally ready to release it. For the past six years, System of a Down guitarist Daron Malakian has been sitting on an entire album with no plans of releasing it. He recorded it entirely himself with the intention of putting it out under the name Scars on Broadway, a side band he launched during System's […]
If this year’s Billboard Music Awards nominations are any indication, the show will surely be star-studded. Khalid and Bebe Rexha announced the names of the first round of nominees for the 2018 soirée on the Today show, Tuesday. Kendrick Lamar, Ed Sheeran, and Taylor Swift lead the pack with nominations in multiple categories including top female and male artist. Lamar and Sheeran lead with four nominations, each, thus far. Khalid — a nominee, himself, for top new artist — will also announce […]
Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for music for his album "Damn," providing perhaps the biggest surprise as the awards for journalism, arts and letters were announced Monday in New York. Andrew Sean Greer's "Less" won in the Pulitzer's fiction category, and Martyna Majok's play "Cost of Living" won in the drama category. "The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea" by Jack E Davis was the […]
Hip-hop icon Kanye West has been laying pretty low since the 2016 tour following his seventh album, The Life of Pablo, abruptly came to a halt: He cancelled the final 21 dates and entered the hospital for exhaustion. In 2017, he featured on Drake's "Glow" and Mary J. Blige's "Love Yourself"; this year, he is credited as a co-producer on Migos' "Bad Bitches Only." And that's about it. West's focus has seemingly been elsewhere: With wife Kim Kardashian […]
When a jury decided in March of 2015 that Robin Thicke, Pharrell William and Clifford "T.I." Harris were guilty of copyright infringement in lifting elements of their song "Blurred Lines" from the Marvin Gaye classic "Got to Give It Up," the estate of Marvin Gaye grew several million dollars richer. But according to some industry insiders, the "Blurred Lines" verdict – which was upheld by an appeals court in March […]
