Fleetwood Machas fired Lindsey Buckingham after a disagreement over the band’s upcoming tour, Rolling Stone has confirmed. The band announced Monday that Mike Campbell of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers and Neil Finn of Crowded House will replace him. News of Buckingham’s departure initially broke when former Fleetwood Mac guitarist …
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A classic Cecil Taylor moment occurred at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 1978. That summer, the iconoclastic pianist – who died Thursday at the age of 89 – performed for Jimmy Carter at the White House Jazz Festival. The commander-in-chief was so taken with what he heard that he chased Taylor …
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We know that America has executed innocent men. Carlos DeLuna was innocent of murder when he was put to death by lethal injection in 1989. Cameron Todd Willingham was innocent of murder when he was given a lethal-drug cocktail in 2004. Both men were executed in the Huntsville Unit of …
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All is not well in the state of Shaolin, or at least that’s what the Wu-Tang Clan‘s U-God alleged in his recently released memoir, Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang. In an excerpt published inRolling Stonelast month, the rapper called the group’s producer-rapper RZAa “control freak” who has hired his …
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Forty years ago this week, Dallas premiered on CBS – and changed TV history forever. At a time when network television was staid and dull, this Lone Star Peyton Placecame on as a totally shameless melodrama full of sex, money, bad blood, family feuds, cowboy hats and shoulder pads – …
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“Weird Al” Yankovic was not kidding when he said that his Ill-Advised, Vanity Tourwas going to be unlike anything he’d ever done before. Not only is he playing a completely different setlist every single night, he’s keeping out nearly all of his most famous parody songs in favor of his …
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Humans and hosts prepare for battle in the chilling new trailer for Season Two of Westworld. The hit HBO series returns on April 22nd. The clip picks up the various narrative threads left dangling at the end of Season One. Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) grapples with the knowledge that he is …
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Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood revealed Ricky Skaggs, Dottie West and fiddle player Johnny Gimble as the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame on Tuesday morning. Brooks, a Hall of Fame member, and Yearwood (a onetime Hall of Fame tour guide) both held back tears as they …
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Eagles of Death Metal‘s Jesse Hughes, a survivor of a mass-shooting incident, called the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School “disgusting vile abusers of the dead” for participating in the March for Our Lives protest. Hughes penned his tirade in the caption of an Instagram post that mocked gun …
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There’s no sidestepping that rock’n’roll – music predicated on self-centered celebrations of personal freedom – looks a little suspect these days in the hands of cisgender white guys, however “woke” they may be. And frankly that’s fitting, given the music’s shameful history of compensating black artists unfairly and an embedded …
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