21 Savage promised a Travis Scott verse was coming for his album i am > i was on its release date, even though it wasn’t ready for its appearance on streaming services. He evenwarned fans that Travis’ verse would blow their headphones up. Thankfully, Savage delivered — even if the …
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W hen Kacey Musgraves attended the Country Music Association Awards in November, she decided to wear the pants: black Versace ones, to be exact, with gold beaded fringe. “I wanted to show up in a suit,” she says, calling from her tour bus in Oklahoma. “When I found out Versace …
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The intrepid reporters for “Lie Witness News” returned to the streets to find out what everyday Americans thought of the biggest events to definitely not happen in 2018 on Jimmy Kimmel Live Wednesday. Perhaps because 2018 was so hectic, people were more than wiling to speak up on an array …
Read More »Watch Ariana Grande Perform Brassy 'Imagine' With the Roots on 'Fallon'
Ariana Grande delivered the debut TV performance of her new single “Imagine” with assistance from the Roots on Tuesday’s The Tonight Show. Draped in a red Christmas sweater, Grande gave her sultry ballad a brassy reworking as the Roots helped transform the single into a bluesy rave-up. Grande also wowed …
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Lin-Manuel Miranda and Emily Blunt, the stars of Mary Poppins Returns, joined James Corden in a one-take rendition of 22 musicals. The clip, an edition of The Late Late Show‘s “Roll Call” segment, takes on everything from Evita to Chicago to The Wizard of Oz. The actors, alongside Corden, gamely …
Read More »Watch Colbert Pan Trump's Wild Russia Investigation Theories, 'SNL' Attacks
Stephen Colbert broke down the latest developments in the myriad investigations facing President Donald Trump, as well as the president’s ridiculous attempts to keep tweeting through the news on The Late Show Monday. As Colbert noted, Trump now faces over 17 known investigations, and over the weekend a Senate Intelligence …
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Saturday Night Live only briefly addressed Kevin Hart’s Oscar-hosting controversy during last week’s episode, but on the December 15th episode, the show devoted a full skit to the search for a new host following Hart’s swift exit. “The search for a new host begins. Who will risk everything for the …
Read More »Hear Gerard Way's Romantic New Christmas Song 'Dasher'
Gerard Way has dropped a Christmas-ready power pop single “Dasher.” This is the rock star’s third new solo single in two months. “Dasher” features Lydia Night of the Regrettes. On the song, Way tells the story of a girl who falls in love with a reindeer. The lyrics are full …
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When indie-pop singer Knox Fortune asked his friends Chris Bailoni and Clay Frankel to open for him at Chicago‘s Lincoln Hall last November, they were a little hesitant. “We were like, ‘We’re not even really a band!’” Frankel recalls. “But he was like, ‘Aw, c’mon. We’ll get drunk. It’ll be …
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Did you ever think you could beSpider-Man? This gorgeous take on the Marvel superhero knows you can — that everyone can. The great power always comes by accident, that famous spider-bite origin story; it’s what you do with that power, of course, that really counts. It’s a hard lesson for …
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