It’s been eight years since Benh Zeitlin made his astonishing feature-directing debut with Beasts of the Southern Wild, a low-budget landmark set on the bayous of Louisiana that won Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Actress (for its extraordinary nine-year-old star Quvenzhané Wallis), Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay nods. …
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Even though Ozzy Osbourne released his 12th album, Ordinary Man, just a few days ago, he says there’s no rest for the wicked. “I am making another album because while I can’t tour, I can make music,” the Prince of Darkness said in a Reddit AMA session. “What I learned …
Read More »Jamey Johnson Announces Headlining Tour With Whiskey Myers
Jamey Johnson may not have any new music on the horizon (as far as anyone knows), but that doesn’t keep the baritone country singer off the road. On Monday he announced a new string of dates with rising country-rock band Whiskey Myers. The 12 shows kick off May 6th in …
Read More »See Rihanna's Powerful NAACP Image Awards Speech
Rihanna delivered a powerful speech after accepting the NAACP Image Awards’ 2020 President’s Award, which the singer received for her many philanthropic efforts. “Tonight is not really about me, because the purpose is bigger than me, right?” Rihanna said during her three-minute speech. “It’s not bigger than us together, but …
Read More »Eric Church's CRS Keynote Q&A: 5 Things We Learned
“We all are in this room because music touched us in some way,” Eric Church told a crowd of radio programmers gathered for a Q&A with radio personality Lon Helton during Country Radio Seminar in Nashville on Thursday, in a conversation called “Chasing Creativity.” In addition to letting slip some …
Read More »Watch Richard E. Grant's Opening Monologue From 'Dispatches From Elsewhere'
The mysterious new sci-fi seriesDispatches From Elsewhere premiered its first trailer last month, depicting Jason Segel in a dystopian society not dissimilar to our own. Along with three other people, he is chosen as an “agent of nonchalance” tasked with unlocking a hidden world underneath the surface of reality. If …
Read More »Watch Squirrel Flower Cook Risotto, Give Tour of Her Childhood Home
Massachusetts indie rocker Squirrel Flower, a.k.a. Ella O’Connor Williams, isRolling Stone‘s latest Artist You Need to Know. In a new video for the series, Williams cooks risotto, gives a tour of her home, and discusses her great debut album, I Was Born Swimming. “The weather was perfect, in my opinion,” …
Read More »Why Was Chris Stapleton Singing at Tyler Perry's Madea Play?
On Friday, Chris Stapleton gave a performance in Nashville that received a whole arena’s worth of hallelujers. The singer was in attendance at Tyler Perry‘s Madea Farewell Tour stop in Nashville when he surprised the crowd by standing up and giving a brief rendition of his signature song “Tennessee Whiskey.” …
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Swizz Beatz may have been at the Grammys to support his wife Alicia Keys — who hosted this year’s appropriately toned-down affair— but it was the hip-hop producer’s son (and Keys’ stepson) who took social media by storm. Nineteen-year-old Nasir Dean (Beatz’ legal name is Kasseem Dean), got the comic …
Read More »The Viral Videos That Built YouTube
Since its inception in 2005, YouTube has become a home to many things — a place for people to post historic clips, to flaunt their inner selves, to share their latest creation, to share dangerous misinformation. But at its core, YouTube is a place to get lost for hours in …
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