The family of late Slipknot bassist Paul Gray secured a settlement for the rocker’s 2010 death from a drug overdose, the Des Moines Register reports. The Gray family sued pain relief specialist Dr. Daniel Baldi and his former employers, including the hospital company UnityPoint-Des Moines. The case was scheduled to …
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Megyn Kelly stood by her decision to ask Jane Fonda about her plastic surgery during a segment of her show Monday, bitingly reminding her audience that the Oscar-winning actress and activist’s name is “synonymous with outrage.” Last September, Kelly asked Fonda, who was a guest on her show along with …
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In February, a month after five million people turned up at protests worldwide in support of women‘s rights, ten organizers of the largest Women’s Marches in Canada – in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Halifax, Vancouver and Alberta – began talks about formalizing an organization. The group, as they envisioned it, would …
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MTV is in a bit of a rut these days: The TRL reboot hasn’t managed to get teenagers to put down their cellphones and turn on the network after school like it’s still 1999; ambitious series like The Shannara Chronicles never found a mass audience; and their best “fresh” idea …
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Producer Jerry Bruckheimer thinks big, and his war movies can range from noisy idiocy (Pearl Harbor) to near brilliant (Black Hawk Down). Luckily, 12 Strong sees the value in substance as well as spectacle. Based on Doug Stanton’s 2009 bestseller, Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. …
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Jimi Hendrix‘s previously unreleased cover of Muddy Waters’ “Mannish Boy” was released viaBBC Radio 6.The late guitarist recorded the famous blues cut at the Record Plant in New York on April 22, 1969.He was accompanied by bassist Billy Cox and drummer Buddy Miles, who soon adopted the name the Band …
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Denouncing Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations as “shitholes” – while pleading for more immigrants from Scandinavia – Donald Trump did more than reveal personal racism. He made plain that U.S. immigration policy is now being driven by animus toward black and brown people. Trump’s comments were made Thursday in …
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Miranda Lambert‘s new Livin’ Like Hippies Tour kicks off a week from today on January 18th, but already the Grammy winner is already making plans for summer. On Thursday, Lambert announced that she’d be joining Little Big Town for the co-headlining Bandwagon Tour this summer. The 13-date tour takes place …
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Queen, Tina Turner, Neil Diamond and Emmylou Harris are among the artists who will receive the Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. The organization behind the Grammys will also hand out its Special Merit Awards to Louis Jordan, the Metersand Wrecking Crew drummer Hal Blaine. This year’s honorees will …
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Tommy Wiseau was mere inches from the microphone and delivering what was undoubtedly a long-awaited acceptance speech at the Golden Globes Sunday night, but viewers didn’t get to find out what he had to say because James Franco, who portrayed him in The Disaster Artist, swooped in to interrupt him. …
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