The New York Times tweet was triumphant, music to #Resistance ears: On the surface, it was a truly bipartisan defeat of Trump. A full 22 of those 68 yeas were Democrats. But every Senate Democrat who’s even rumored to be running for president voted nay. The list included Kamala Harris, …
Read More »See Drew and Ellie Holcomb's Intimate 'Electricity' Video
Nashville-based performers Drew and Ellie Holcomb have released the intimate video for “Electricity,” the title track from their new EP. The husband-and-wife team, who have released music separately as well as toured together as part of live favorites Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors, huddle around a single microphone and face …
Read More »Watch Christina Aguilera Serenade Surprised Donut Shop Patrons on 'Kimmel'
Christina Aguilera provided patrons at a donut shop with some unexpected entertainment on the first installment of “Undercover Sing” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Thursday. The pop star set up in the kitchen and, using, a security monitor, began to pipe songs about the various customers into the store before emerging …
Read More »See David Gilmour Play 'Wish You Were Here' on Guitar He's Auctioning Off
Ahead of his massive guitar auction, David Gilmour explains how he fell into collecting instruments and his history with some of the more than 120 guitars he’ll be selling in a new video. The four-and-a-half–minute clip shows him playing the 12-string on which he wrote Pink Floyd‘s “Wish You Were …
Read More »Cosmo Sheldrake's 'Come Along' Proves Apple Commercials Are Still Minting Hits
One, two, three, four, tell me that you love me more — Feist, 2007 Since the debut of the iPod in the early 2000s, Apple has been a singular driving force in the music industry. Most of that power stemmed from Steve Jobs’ pocket-sized music player and its attendant iTunes …
Read More »Stephen Miller May Have Cost Trump the Wall
President Trump could have had his wall. In early 2018, Democrats offered to appropriate funding for a border wall — not just some funding, the full $25 billion — if the president would agree to provide a pathway to citizenship for immigrants living in the United States as part of …
Read More »Ted Bundy's Living Victim Tells Her Story
Every now and then, Kathy Kleiner Rubin likes to duck into a bookstore with her husband, Scott, and head straight for the true crime section. She’ll scan the shelves until she spots it: a book on the serial killer Ted Bundy. The Stranger Beside Me, maybe, or perhaps The Only …
Read More »See Zac Efron as Serial Killer Ted Bundy in New Biopic Trailer
For his fast-paced biopic of infamous serial killer Ted Bundy, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, director Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost, Whitey) turns his magnifying glass to the real-life story of Elizabeth Kloepfer (Lily Collins), a woman who’s struggling with her suspicions about her boyfriend Ted (Zac Efron). Sure, she …
Read More »'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' Recap: School Daze
A review of “The Tattler,” this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, coming up just as soon as I perform “Stop or My Mom Will Ska,” the one song by my ska band, Skalvester Skallone… “The Tattler” starts off in a familiar Andy Samberg key: Nineties clothes and music and a grown man …
Read More »Watch Aaron Lee Tasjan's Gritty Live 'Crawling at Your Feet'
Even stripped down for a two-man acoustic performance, Aaron Lee Tasjan loses none of his rock & roll attitude in a gritty new unplugged video performance of his song “Crawling at Your Feet.” Cut at eTown Hall in Boulder, Colorado, Tasjan is joined by bassist Tommy Scifres on guitar duties …
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