South African trumpeter and jazz musician Hugh Ramopolo Masekela, who had a Number One hit with his version of “Grazing In the Grass,” died Tuesday in Johannesburg after a battle with prostate cancer. He was 78. In a post on Twitter, the Masekela family wrote: “A loving father, brother, grandfather …
Read More »Pearl Jam Announce Seattle Stadium 'Home Shows' to Fight Homelessness
Pearl Jam will play a pair of Seattle concerts this summer to help aid the city’s homelessness initiatives. Dubbed “The Home Shows,” the two stadium gigs mark the Rock Hall-inducted band’s first hometown gigs in five years. “The Home Shows” will invade Seattle’s Safeco Field, home of the Mariners, on …
Read More »Triple H Is Already Thinking About Tuesday Morning
Paul “Triple H” Levesque was watching the first ever episode of Monday Night Raw on January 11th, 1993 from his home just like the rest of us. “I remember thinking the live format in that venue with that level of excitement was a game-changer,” recalls the WWE in-ring legend and …
Read More »See U2's Politically Charged Video for 'Get Out of Your Own Way'
U2 rail against President Trump and the Ku Klux Klan in the new video for “Get Out of Your Own Way.” The animated clip was developed by the Broken Fingaz Crew, an Israeli graffiti collective. The imagery in the video alternates between images of anguish – a woman crying, a …
Read More »Howard Stern to Induct Bon Jovi Into Rock Hall of Fame
Howard Stern will induct Bon Jovi into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the Hall’s annual ceremony this April in Cleveland.Jon Bon Jovi visited The Howard Stern Show Wednesday morning where he revealed why the shock jock was his top choice. “The truth is, I had hoped this …
Read More »Cranberries Producer Stephen Street Remembers Dolores O'Riordan
The music world was rocked Monday bythe unexpected death of the Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan at the age of 46. Following news of the singer’s death, famed producer Stephen Street, who worked with the Cranberries on their first two studio albums – 1993’s Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why …
Read More »10 New Albums to Stream Now: Camila Cabello, Anderson East and more
Camila Cabello, CamilaThe solo debut from the “Havana” thrush and former Fifth Harmony member is “a personal statement, low-key and mellow even when it’s infused with the rhythms of her Cuban-Mexican heritage,” writes Rob Sheffield. “Even at her most tormented, she sounds totally confident and totally herself.”Read Our Feature:Camila Cabello …
Read More »Margot Robbie Met Ellen, Obama During Embarrassing Honeymoon Encounter
Margot Robbie’s first encounter with Ellen DeGeneres was unexpected and mortifying for her husband, producer Tom Ackerley, but the chance meeting in Tahiti is still Robbie’s “favorite story ever.” On Wednesday’s episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, DeGeneres requested that Robbie tell the audience how the two women first met, …
Read More »Gayle King Talks President Oprah Winfrey Speculation: She's 'Intrigued'
Oprah Winfrey‘s passionate, headline-making speech at Sunday night’s Golden Globes was interpreted by many as a preemptive hint at a possible presidential run in 2020, but on Tuesday’s episode of CBS This Morning, her BFF Gayle King tempered the assumption with a few careful responses. “It is a very interesting …
Read More »Why Last Bandoleros Could Be This Year's Most Important New Country Band
Maybe it was the round of tequilas they just downed, but the Last Bandoleros are fired up. In fact, the four members of the young country-rock band – bassist Diego Navaira and his older brother, drummer Emilio Navaira, and guitarists Jerry Fuentes and Derek James – are nearly causing a …
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