Here’s to what didn’t even come close to sucking in 2018: the music. These are my 25 favorite songs of the year (though some gems are over on the albums list, to avoid duplicating all the same artists). Including, but not limited to: hits, flops, obscurities, guitar ragers, pop thrills, …
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Vice, the Dick Cheney biopic from Adam McKay, isn’t the only political film due out this winter. On January 19th, Brexit will premiere on HBO. Directed byToby Haynes and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, the film tells the story behind the controversial vote to remove the United Kingdom from the European Union. …
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Anyone who’s ever cut their teeth on superhero comic-books — whether as a casual prepubescent collector or someone whose reader alter-ego skews a little closer to this — has almost assuredly gone through a Spider-Man phase. Maybe you prefer the Ditko-to-Romitas (Sr. and Jr.) era, or when he changed his …
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Ticket-resale giant StubHub, the world’s biggest ticket marketplace, released its fourth annual “Year In Live Experiences” report on Tuesday, highlighting one point in particular: More people are crossing borders to attend concerts, festivals, sports games and other live events than ever before. Nearly 200,000 customers traveled to a different country …
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WASHINGTON —It’s been an extraordinary 24 hours in the world of Paul Manafort. On Monday evening, Special Counsel Robert Mueller said in an explosive new court filing that Manafort, the disgraced former Trump campaign chairman and Republican lobbyist, had lied to the FBI and the special counsel’s office despite signing …
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Graham Nash‘s new career-spanning compilation album Over the Years …traces his long career as a songwriter, stretching all the way back to his days in the Hollies when he sketching out tunes like “Marrakesh Express” and “Teach Your Children” that would later be recorded by CSN and CSNY. Earlier this …
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Roy Hargrove, a Grammy-winning trumpeter and jazz musician that worked alongside artists like D’Angelo, Erykah Badu, Common and Sonny Rollins, died Friday at the age of 49. Hargrove’s longtime manager confirmed the trumpeter’s death to NPR, adding that the cause of death was cardiac arrest; earlier in the week, Hargrove …
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This week: It’s an early look at Netflix‘s dystopic drama du jour starring Sandra Bullock; teasers for not one but two big Amazon shows this season; a pop-eats-itself drama starring Natalie Portman; a look at upcoming TV docs on the N.B.A. and abuse allegations surrounding R. Kelly, respectively; and the …
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Van Morrison unveiled a brassy new song, “Got to Go Where the Love Is,” which will appear on hisupcoming album, The Prophet Speaks, out December 7th via Caroline International. The new track arrives with a neon-lit lyric video that complements the song’s soulful, jazz club vibe. Morrison’s unmistakable vocals glide …
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30 years later, 1988 still stands as rap’s greatest year. The lyrical molotovs of Nation of Millions and Straight Outta Compton, the post-modern (and pre-lawsuit) free-for-all of sampling, the national spotlight of a new show called Yo! MTV Raps and much more. To celebrate 30 years, Rolling Stone’s Best of …
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