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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Dua Lipa, Morgan Wallen to Perform on SNL
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Dua Lipa and Morgan Wallen will be the musical guests on the December episodes of Saturday Night Live. If you remember, Wallen was booted from an episode earlier this year due to violating COVID protocols. He was replaced by Jack White as the musical guest. Jason Bateman, Timothée Chalamet and Kristen Wiig will host the final three episodes of 2020. They will take place Dec. 5 (Bateman and Wallen), Dec. 12 (Chalamet and Springsteen/E Street Band) and Dec. 19 for the Christmas episode (Wiig and Lipa). Springsteen released Letter to You in October. You can read our review of it here. Meanwhile, Lipa had quite a day on Tuesday — picking up six Grammy nominations, including several in the major categories. You Deserve to Make Money E...
Tori Amos Shares ‘Better Angels’ From Upcoming Holiday EP
After announcing her new holiday EP, Chrstimastide, earlier this month, Tori Amos has released the first track just in time for the holidays with a pretty version of “Better Angels.” Promising to “try and lift people’s spirits,” the song jumps off with striking piano chords and rolling guitars. If you’re looking for a holiday song with more energy, this may be the perfect track to add to your rotation this season. [embedded content] “With ‘Better Angels’ I wanted to acknowledge the year we have all been through and know that there is hope,” Amos said in a statement. “We can find that hope within ourselves if we continue to focus our collective minds and souls. We are slowly starting to find a clearer path to transform together for the better of all.” The EP, which releases on Dec. 4 via De...
i_o, Electronic DJ and Producer, Dies at 30
Garrett Falls Lockhart, better known as electronic DJ and producer i_o, has died at the age of 30. News of Lockhart’s death appeared on his social media on Tuesday night (Nov. 24), which revealed that he died on Monday (Nov. 23). No cause of death has been reported. “This extremely talented spirit taught us that even if nothing matters, you can still lead with love,” the statement said. “Garrett’s truth and soul lives on through the music he shared.” Known in the dance music world for his techno and deep house sound, he recently signed with Armin van Buuren’s Armada Music and on his way to starting his own imprint, Label 444. He has also released music on deadmau5’s mau5trap and Above & Beyond’s Anjunabeats labels. He collaborated with Grimes’ on her single, “Violence,” from her l...
Stardust Stars Marc Maron and Johnny Flynn on Bowie Film, the Music That Made Them
Let’s get this out of the way first: None of David Bowie’s songs appear in Stardust. This might seem like a cinematic Achilles’ heel, particularly given the movie’s time frame: just before the birth of Bowie’s most famous alter ego, Ziggy Stardust. However, not resorting to the jukebox musical techniques, or forcing actors to sing lesser-than covers, might be the film’s greatest strength. It’s set during an ill-fated tour behind The Man Who Sold the World, where, thanks to a work visa, Bowie (played by a swaggering Johnny Flynn) is allowed to do everything but perform. Instead, the iconic singer, still more of a star on paper than in reality, is reduced to listening: Hunching over a radio in a Midwest hotel room, becoming a deer in headlights at a Velvet Underground show, clutching a...
‘The Forty-Year-Old Version’ Director Radha Blank Receives Sundance Institute’s 2020 Vanguard Award
Source: Rich Fury / Getty Radha Blank, the brilliant creator behind Netflix’s The Forty-Year-Old Version, has a growing collection of impressive awards and nominations ever since breaking into the film space this year, and her latest win is worth every bit of bragging rights. Last week, the Sundance Institue announced that the multi-hyphenated filmmaker will be this year’s recipient of the prestigious 2020 Vanguard Award for her directorial work on the film. In the wake of the lockdown, Sundance Collab, an online platform for creators across the globe, will host a special event in her honor on December 2 featuring Octavia Spencer, an advisor to Blank at the Institute’s Labs. “It’s a thrill to be acknowledged by my Sundance Institute family, who’ve been behind me from the very beginni...
Got ‘Em?!: Tips & Techniques To Actually Cop Hyped Sneakers Online
Source: STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / Getty Let us guess, you’ve taken yet another “L” on that highly anticipated sneaker drop that you’ve been waiting on for the past few weeks and feel the universe has it in for you and just you. What it’s like to try and cop Kobes on SNKRS pic.twitter.com/xYnYxVKd8m — B/R Kicks (@brkicks) November 24, 2020 While we’re sure you’re more than likely punching the air like Tre in Boyz N The Hood and cursing the sneaker Gods to oblivion, it’s okay, we’ve all been there and will continue to visit. Especially in this day and age when waiting on line and camping out overnight has been replaced by online raffles and sneakerbots that eat up merchandise at the speed of light. Still, there are a few things you can do to up your chances of taking home that seemingly elusive ...
Megan Thee Stallion Reveals She Is Texting Buddies With The Carters
Source: ABC / Getty Megan Thee Stallion’s phone book is better than yours. The Houston rapper has a lot to be happy about, her debut album Good News has finally arrived, her new single “Body” is talk of social media thanks to the #BodyOdyChallenge, she’s got a new fashion line with Fashion Nova, and she killed the AMAs with a dope performance and took home an award. Entertainment Tonight caught up with Thee Stallion to talk about all of her wins in a year that featured some controversy thanks to Tory Lanez shooting her in both feet. When asked what is working with Beyoncé on the “Savage Remix” and Cardi B on the chart-smashing raunchy single “WAP,” she gushed about collaborating with both artists. “Working with Cardi and Beyoncé, it was two totally different experiences.” She further...
Megan Thee Stallion Talks Collabs With Cardi B & Beyoncé
Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Megan Thee Stallion is on the top of her game. During her recent interview with Apple Music, the “Body” rapper discussed her chart-topping collaborations with both Cardi B and Beyoncé, revealing how the collaboration came about, noting that the experience resulted in being one of her favorite moments of the year. “That was like the highlight for me. I was like, “Beyonce? Beyonce.” Like I couldn’t believe it, my eyes got so big. Because I had a feeling she was gonna do it, and they told me she wanted to do it, and I was like, shut up, like, Beyonce wanna get on my song? Like, and that is something that I always say. Like every time somebody will ask me who’s your dream collab? Who do you wanna collab with? I’m like, Beyonce, Beyonce, Beyonce. So when ...
The Soviet Machines Premiere Jack Endino-Produced Song “Get Your Kicks”: Stream
Minneapolis three piece The Soviet Machines lived out an alt-rock dream when they traveled to Seattle to work with producer Jack Endino (Nirvana’s Bleach). The band is now premiering the music video for “Get Your Kicks”, the lead single from their upcoming debut album, exclusively via Heavy Consequence. The Soviet Machines’ vintage power trio approach is well suited for Endino, who captured many of the Seattle grunge scene’s legendary guitar bands. He’s got major credits on records by Nirvana, Mudhoney, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees, and countless others. Most recently, Endino has produced the acclaimed works of US doom institution Windhand. The veteran recording engineer’s touch is apparent on “Get Your Kicks”, an upbeat rocker with solid tone — mostly recorded live without overdubs. The S...
Arab Strap Announce New Album As Days Get Dark, Share “Compersion Pt. 1”: Stream
Mere months after dropping a new song out of nowhere, Arab Strap have returned with even bigger news. The Scottish indie rockers have just announced their first new album in 16 years. It’s called As Days Get Dark and it’s due out March 5th via Rock Action. As Days Get Dark follows Arab Strap’s great 2005 album The Last Romance, shortly after which they called it quits. This new full-length spans 11 tracks in total, including “The Turning of Our Bones”, which they dropped in September. The song was put out as a standalone number, but now we know it’s actually the album opener on As Days Get Dark, according to the tracklist. The joyful outfit, comprised of Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton, released a statement to accompany the news, saying As Days Get Dark should feel like both a care...
What’s Streaming on Netflix in December 2020
Netflix is unwrapping some big gifts in December 2020. The shiniest box under the proverbial tree is David Fincher’s Mank. The filmmaker’s first feature in six years stars Oscar winner Gary Oldman as legendary Hollywood screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and the drama that surrounded his work on Citizen Kane. Another star-studded feature is Ryan Murphy’s The Prom, a fish-out-of-water comedy that finds Meryl Streep, James Corden, Nicole Kidman, and Keegan-Michael Key putting on a Broadway production in a small town. That should keep the family business. Elsewhere, there’s the highly anticipated Selena: The Series, the fourth season of Big Mouth, the fourth and final season of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and the de facto seasonal docuseries The Holiday Movies That Made Us. EditorsR...
Bowie Biopic Stardust Commits Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide: Review
The Pitch: It’s 1971 and David Bowie (Johnny Flynn) is about to make it big. Well, actually, he already kind of had. He’d just released “Space Oddity”, which would have become legendary even if he’d never released another album. We’d still be hearing it in commercials like we do Rupert Holmes’ “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)” regardless, so the “what if?” at the center of the movie isn’t quite as pulse-pounding as writer-director Gabriel Range and his co-scribe Christopher Bell seem to imagine it to be. Anyway, Bowie’s about to be famous, but he’s concerned that the US doesn’t like or get him and that the record label doesn’t know what to do with him. So, they send him to the US to introduce himself, which is about all he can do because his visa doesn’t allow him to play shows. So, he just ...
