Ringo Starr, Billie Eilish and Charli XCX will appear on a special slate of live episodes of The Tonight Show, airing September 23rd through 27th. Starr is set to participate in a special edition of “classroom instruments,” joining host Jimmy Fallon and the Roots to perform the Beatles’ classic “Yellow …
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Every person who heads to the Toronto International Film Festival — especially those who hope to take the pulse of the upcoming awards-circuit season — comes with certain expectations. Maybe these notions are industry-driven (the trades and the prognosticators says A and B are the big films to beat for …
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Tanya Tucker‘s new album While I’m Livin’ was a triumphant return for the living country legend, whose last studio album came way back in 2003. Tucker joined fellow outlaw artist Elizabeth Cook at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Friday for a special AmericanaFest interview and performance, …
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Country Radio Seminar (CRS) isn’t usually the kind of place for grand statements — if anything, the annual gathering of country radio programmers in Nashville is a time when artists play it safe in hopes of scoring some eventual airtime. You strum your single, you crack a joke. You offend …
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Lil Nas X, Lizzo, the Black Keys and the Rolling Stones are among the artists whose songs landed on Barack Obama‘s latest annual summer playlist. “With summer winding down, here’s a sampling of what Michelle and I have been listening to — some new, some old, some fast, some slow,” …
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NASA has named a small rock on Mars after the Rolling Stones, which will appear on working, informal maps of the Red Planet. “Rolling Stones Rock” was unveiled during the Stones’ concert in Pasadena, California Thursday night, with Robert Downey, Jr. on hand to make the announcement. As the actor …
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Barack and Michelle Obama discuss the craft and connectivity of storytelling with filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar in a teaser video promoting their new Netflix documentary American Factory. The film, out today on the streaming service and in select theaters, is the first title from the former president and …
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In 1961, a plane crashed in Ndola, Rhodesia. One of the passengers who perished in the accident was Dag Hammarskjöld, the Secretary-General of the United Nations. He’d been negotiating a cease-fire between troops in the Republic of Katanga and U.N. forces. Hammarskjöld was 56 years old. These are facts. Mads …
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This September, Canadian indie pop duo Tegan and Sara are coming out (pun intended) with a double whammy (also intended) of material. The twin sister act is not just releasing their upcoming album, Hey I’m Just Like You; but they’ll pair it with a new memoir, titled High School, out …
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In 1979, China issued what would become known as the “One Child Policy”: In an effort to combat overpopulation and the potential for mass starvation, families were only allowed a single child per household. By 1982, it would become the law of the land. The party line was that it …
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