One year after becoming Chief Brand Strategist of the California-based cannabis company Caliva, Jay-Z announced his first marijuana line entitled Monogram. The line launched with a new website and Instagram to tease the new Monogram wares, though no details about specific strains or products were released. A press release said …
Read More »Charley Pride to Receive the CMA's Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award
Charley Pride, the trailblazing country music vocalist behind such songs as “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’” and “Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone,” has been named the latest recipient of the Country Music Association’s Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award. This marks only the sixth time the award has been handed …
Read More »Watch Gord Downie's Animated Video for 'River Don't Care'
Shortly after the release of late Tragically Hip frontmanGord Downie’s posthumous album Away Is Mine, the video for “River Don’t Care” has dropped. Created by Toronto artist Alex McLeod, the video features a vivid hotel room slowly overgrown with fauna and coral life, in a style described in the release …
Read More »Ann Wilson Covers Steve Earle's 'The Revolution Starts Now' Ahead of the Election
Ahead of the 2020 presidential election, Heart‘s Ann Wilson has dropped a cover of Steve Earle‘s “The Revolution Starts Now.” Originally the title track to Earle’s 2004 album, Wilson’s rendition stays true to the former, but with a sense of urgency that arrives like a jolt to the heart. “I …
Read More »RS Charts: Cardi B's 'WAP' Returns to Number One, 'Dreams' Rises to Number Three
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion‘s “WAP” returned to Number One on the latest Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart. The collaboration was dethroned for one week by Travis Scott, Young Thug, and M.I.A.’s “Franchise” and then for a second week by 21 Savage, Metro Boomin, and Drake‘s “Mr. Right …
Read More »Trailers of the Week: 'The Crown,' 'Hillbilly Elegy,' 'Letter to You,' and More
The Crown, Season Four Finally, we have an official look at the biographical series’ newest season. Not only do we get to see more of Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher, but we also see Emma Corrin as Princess Diana. Things pick up as Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Colman) is trying to …
Read More »Lana Del Rey Returns With Tender New Song 'Let Me Love You Like a Woman'
Lana Del Rey has offered the first taste of her seventh album, Chemtrails Over the Country Club, with the tender new ballad “Let Me Love You Like a Woman.” Del Rey announced that a follow-up for Norman Fucking Rockwell! was in the works late last year, not too long after …
Read More »Bruce Springsteen Confronts His Ghosts on the Rousing 'Letter to You'
Over the past half a century, Bruce Springsteen has played down-on-their-luck working men, wide-eyed youngsters growing up too quickly, local-circuit rockers who can only dream of playing stadiums, Cadillac ranchers tearin’ up the highway for cheap kicks, and on and on in his songs. Although he was playing roles in …
Read More »Trevor Noah on Trump's Eagerness to Start Kissing Everyone After Covid-19 Hospitalization
Trevor Noah joked about President Donald Trump’s surprisingly affectionate return to the campaign trail after being hospitalized with Covid-19 on The Daily Show Tuesday, October 13th. Like any self-respecting late-night host, Noah could not resist playing the clip of Trump at a Florida campaign rally Monday where the president said …
Read More »Michael Stipe, Hayley Williams, Kesha Set for Virtual Ruth Bader Ginsburg Tribute
UPDATE (10/12): Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato and Teyana Taylor have been added to the lineup of the RBG tribute, “Honor Her Wish.” The virtual show takes place tonight, October 12th, at 8 p.m. ET, and those that wish to watch must RSVP. ** Michael Stipe, Hayley Williams, Kesha and more …
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