It was another night packed with talent, as American Idol kicked off its third round of auditions in Nashville, Tenn., on Sunday night (March 13). But perhaps no other contestant made an impression on judges quite like country singer-songwriter Emily Faith.The 18-year-old rising talent, who grew up in Kingfisher, Okla., surprised the judging panel of Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie by telling them that she works at a family-owned funeral home with her dad.“It’s wild! She’s a pocket full of sunshine,” Perry said, pointing out Faith’s sunny disposition and comparing it to that of her job title.“I actually help…
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While Luke Combs and superstar singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran might seem like an unlikely pairing, it’s no surprise that Combs is a Sheeran fan: During his concerts, he often covers Sheeran’s 2017 hit, “Dive.” Combs even recorded a studio version of the song as a Spotify Originals version in 2018.But the country star decided to do one better for the sold-out crowd at his Country 2 Country (C2C) Festival in London on Sunday night (March 13). He brought out the English singer-songwriter for a live duet of “Dive.”Combs took the opportunity to be a fan at the beginning of the performance, letting…
Miranda Lambert debuted one of the as-yet unreleased tracks on her upcoming album, Palomino, during her set at the Country 2 Country Festival in London last Thursday (March 10).Called “Actin’ Up,” the new tune is classic Lambert: Free-wheeling, irreverent and colorful lyrics paired against a catchy beat with a healthy dose of twang. It’s the first track on Palomino, and the singer co-wrote it with frequent collaborators Luke Dick and Jon Randall.The new track features a nod to the album’s title, with the line “I wanna see the desert from a painted Palomino / Señorita need to have a little…
Evan Rachel Wood accuses Marilyn Manson of driving her into a paranoic state by allegedly monitoring her and reading her emails in a clip from the second part of the upcoming doc, Phoenix Rising. The two-part HBO documentary debuts on HBO on Tuesday, with both parts available to stream on HBO Max the same day. “Manson had hacked into my emails,” the Westworld actress says. “He was watching me, and he had people watching me, again under the guise of ‘This is for your own good.’” Dan Cleary, one of the musicians’ former assistants, then corroborates her claim. “When I…
Two years after putting their tour in support of LP Gigaton on hold due to the pandemic, Pearl Jam is ready to head out on the road for a North American tour, starting May 3. The Eddie Vedder-fronted band will make 19 stops across Canada and the U.S., including two shows at L.A.’s Forum and one at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Josh Klinghoffer — the former guitarist for Red Hot Chilli Peppers — is set to open for Pearl Jam with his solo project Pluralone. He’ll also join Pearl Jam as a touring member alongside Vedder, Stone Gossard, Jeff…
Woody Guthrie, the singer, songwriter and writer who spoke truth to power decades before the phrase was invented, was long known to take a political stand. Now, 55 years after his death, he’s still doing just that. As part of a new exhibit of his life and work, he’s joined the list of musicians unhappy with Spotify in light of the company’s affiliation with Joe Rogan’s podcast and his Covid-related opinions and comments. “Woody Guthrie: The People Are the Song,” on display through May at New York’s Morgan Library and Museum, chronicles Guthrie’s career by way of photos, song lyrics,…
Charli XCX reflects on the sweetness of a prohibited love on her new track “Every Rule.” The pop ballad follows Charli as she sings about meeting with a love interest already in a relationship — someone she’s willing to break rules for. “Straight away we started falling/Conversation never boring,” she sings on the track produced by A.G. Cook and Oneohtrix Point Never. “When your lips brushed up against my skin/All I wanted was to let you in.” (Charli is no stranger to singing about rule-breaking. Remember her “Boom Clap” follow up, “Break the Rules”?) On Twitter, Charli wrote that she…
Outside of the music itself, one of the most dazzling aspects of Japanese Breakfast’s 2021 album Jubilee is the cover art, which features Michelle Zauner festooned in persimmons. “Persimmons are pretty present in a lot of Asian cultures, as gifts that you give to people,” Zauner told Rolling Stone last year. “I had seen an image of these hanging persimmons that are dried during the winter and turned into sweet, dried fruit. And I really like the idea of this very bitter, hard fruit before it’s ripened — on display and slowly maturing and turning sweeter and letting its environment…
Zoë Kravitz got a Catwoman-themed surprise during her SNL hosting debut this week: more Catwomen. After joking about how she “watched the movie musical Cats every day for a year” to prepare for her role as Catwoman in The Batman, Kate McKinnon appeared in a leather dominatrix suit asking, “Somebody out here talking about cats?” McKinnon quickly revealed that she was “the Catwoman from the ’90s, the one with the whip.” She then revealed her origin story to Kravitz. “Okay, I fell out of a window onto a pile of cats. They licked me back to life and now I dress…
Weekend Update tackled Russia’s fake news law, the country’s ban on car exports and Disney’s response to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live. “Russia has passed a fake news law that makes it illegal for any organization to report information that contradicts what the government says,” co-anchor Colin Jost said, “which explains the recent headline, ‘Six-foot-five Putin Not Insane.’” After discussing President Biden’s refusal to step into World War III and the rising gas prices nationwide, Michael Che quipped, “Russia has responded to sanctions by banning the export of Russian-made cars, but a…
A review of this week’s Winning Time, “Is That All There Is?” coming up just as soon as you come back with a real business plan… Among the many conflicts that Winning Time established in its series premiere was incumbent Lakers coach Jerry West’s opposition to drafting Magic Johnson with the first overall pick. West mostly argued in basketball terms regarding his belief that a six-foot-nine man handling the ball as much as a point guard (a position traditionally played by guys at least a half a foot shorter) would become a turnover machine in the pros. But West —…
The Kardashians found a new home on Hulu with The Kardashians following the series finale of Keeping Up With the Kardashians less than a year ago. Now, as they make their return, they’re leading with a mission statement… or a warning: “Never go against the family.” In the official trailer for the fresh series that puts the cameras back on the Hollywood family, Kourtney and Travis Barker, her fiancé of Blink-182 fame, explore having a baby, while Kylie Jenner details having her own highly publicized pregnancy. Meanwhile, Khloe, entwined in her own public relationship troubles with Chicago Bulls player Tristan…
Evan Rachel Wood responded to Marilyn Manson’s defamation lawsuit against her during her Monday appearance on The View. Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, alleged that the actress defamed him in conversations with other women who have accused him of sexual abuse. “I can’t obviously speak about any of the specific allegations of the lawsuit, but I’m not scared,” she said ahead of the release of her upcoming doc Phoenix Rising. “I am sad, ’cause this is how it works. This is what pretty much every survivor that tries to expose someone in a position of power goes though,…
Not all breakups have to be ugly, and frankly, it’s nice when two people can go their separate ways and still be able to keep mutual respect for each other, or even remain friends. But that seems to be the case for Common and Tiffany Haddish. While they broke up in November after dating for almost two years, they’ve both spoken very highly of each other publicly. And she even shared some sweet (and possibly familiar) words with him, as the rapper recently celebrated his birthday. Tiffany Haddish and Common met on the set of The Kitchen in 2019 and started…