Alt-rock stalwarts Incubus performed their early 2000s smash “Drive” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Monday. The group breezed easily through their seminal song, with guitarist Mike Einziger strumming the tune’s campfire-ready acoustic guitar melody and offering some soft harmonies for Brandon Boyd as he sang the memorable “Drive” …
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Nestled somewhere in the Evil Doll Hall of Fame between Chuckie and The Twilight Zone‘s Talky Tina, the Conjuring franchise’s resident Satanic toy has enough industry juice to have knocked out three spin-off movies — not bad for a scene-stealing porcelain figure originally used as a supernatural conduit by a …
Read More »The First Time: Halsey
Halsey describes the evolution of her artistry, the first time she dyed her hair and how she played Brand New and Taking Back Sunday records to death in the latest installment of “The First Time.” The singer traces her stage name back to 2015, when she was returning home from …
Read More »John Prine Playing Small 'Pop-Up Show' in New York on Sunday
After being inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame earlier this month, John Prine was scheduled to play one of his only East Coast shows of the summer at the Rockland-Bergen Music Festival in Tappan, New York. But that changed today, when the festival was canceled due to unsafe conditions …
Read More »Watch Himesh Patel Cover 'Yesterday' on 'Kimmel'
Himesh Patel stars in Danny Boyle‘s upcoming film Yesterday, a movie that supposes a world where The Beatles don’t exist. In the film, Patel’s Jack Malik gets famous pretending he’s the mastermind behind hits like “Hard Day’s Night” and “Hey Jude.” The British actor appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live in …
Read More »Willie Nelson's 'Ride Me Back Home' Is Another Sturdy Set of Late-Life Wisdom
Two years ago, Willie Nelson delivered God’s Problem Child, a tragicomic heart-stopping meditation on the singer’s rapidly advancing age. A year later, he released an equally sturdy follow-up (2018’s Last Man Standing), and after detouring with his collection of Sinatra standards, the 86-year-old legend is back with Ride Me Back …
Read More »New York's Last-Ditch Effort to Legalize Marijuana Fails
UPDATE: The bill to legalize cannabis in New York State did not pass, according to the New York Times. When Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his full-throated support for marijuana legalization last year, cannabis advocates were cautiously optimistic. That optimism was significantly dampened, however, when a push for legalization earlier this …
Read More »See Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real Perform 'Bad Case' on 'Colbert'
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real took the stage at the Late Show to perform their recent track “Bad Case.” The song, which comes off the singer’s album Turn Off The News (Build a Garden), got some impassioned accompaniment from the musician’s brother Micah Nelson, as well as his …
Read More »Bonnaroo Attendee Dies After Found Unresponsive at Campgrounds
A 27-year-old man died after suffering a “medical situation” at the Bonnaroo campgrounds Saturday, organizers announced. A medical team at the Manchester, Tennessee festival were called to the campgrounds and found the man unresponsive and breathing. The Bonnaroo EMS team and Coffee County Emergency Medical Services arrived minutes later and …
Read More »Weyes Blood on Stunning New LP, the Titanic Sinking and Climate Change
When Natalie Mering was 12 years old, she stopped watching movies. The singer-songwriter, who performs under the name Weyes Blood (pronounced “wise blood”), didn’t watch a single film for three years. “I was like, ‘This is full of shit,’” the 31-year-old admits. “‘This is just setting everybody up for disappointment. …
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