Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg revealed Friday that she had a recurrence of cancer and that recent treatments have yielded “positive results.” Ginsburg’s recurrence is unrelated to her recent hospitalizations, which were to remove gall stones and treat an infection. In May, Ginsburg began treatment after “a periodic scan …
Read More »Cristin Milioti Is Ready for Her Reset
If you want to get a sense of who Cristin Milioti is, ask her about the hook. “Wait, so you heard about the hook?!” she says, eyes widening as she doubles over laughing on her couch. Actually, it’s technically not her couch; she’s staying at a friend’s house in L.A.’s …
Read More »What's Sony Planning in Music — and Will It Involve Tencent?
Boy, Tencent is smart. If you want to get a handle on just how smart, consider this: Last Thursday (July 9th), entertainment-and-electronics giant Sony Corporation announced it was buying a minority stake worth $250 million in Epic Games, maker of Fortnite. Epic recently nailed a $17 billion valuation, meaning Sony’s …
Read More »'RS Interview: Special Edition' With Playwright Jeremy O. Harris
After Slave Play closed on Broadway in January 2020, playwright Jeremy O. Harris was whisked off to London for a new production of Daddy, his other controversial play about race, sex, trauma, power, love, and kink. When the Almeida Theatre shut down in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, Harris …
Read More »Eagles, Pearl Jam, Guns N' Roses Among Groups Receiving PPP Loans for Postponed Tours
With concert tours almost completely shuttered through the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic since March, some of the biggest acts in music — including the Eagles, Pearl Jam, Guns N’ Roses and Green Day — have received federal funding to support their crews for any current and future postponed tours, according to …
Read More »'The First Time' With Actor Okieriete Onaodowan
Broadway may still be shut downdue to the COVID-19 pandemic, but fans hoping to catch the hit musicalHamilton can stream it online beginning July 3rd on Disney+. As TV critic Alan Sepinwall recently wrote of this new filmed version of the stage production: “Each song, each scene seems meant for …
Read More »Trump Campaign Denies K-Pop Fans, TikTok Users Caused Sparsely Attended Tulsa Rally
The Trump campaign denied a report that K-pop fans and TikTok users were to blame for the president’s sparsely attended rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Despite Trump’s claims that over 1 million people had requested tickets for his June 20th rally amid a pandemic, the president’s speech at the BOK Arena …
Read More »The Last Word: Judas Priest's Rob Halford on the Joys of Leather and 40 Years of 'Breaking the Law'
“There was a time when ‘heavy metal’ was a dirty word,” Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford says. “But we have always said that we fly the flag of British heavy metal. It’s something that we’re extremely proud of. We take it seriously.” For nearly half a century, Halford has been …
Read More »Sweet Bassist Steve Priest Dead at 72
Steve Priest, founding bassist and singer for “Ballroom Blitz” glam rock band Sweet, died Thursday at the age of 72. Priest’s family confirmed his death on social media Thursday. No cause of death was revealed, but guitarist Andy Scott — the last surviving member of the band’s classic lineup — …
Read More »New Protest Anthems: Songs of the Uprising for George Floyd
In the wake of George Floyd‘s killing by a Minneapolis police officer on May 25th, streaming numbers for protest songs have soared. Vintage tracks like N.W.A’s “Fuck tha Police” that specifically call out police violence serve as a reminder that our current national crisis is nothing new. As Black Lives …
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