Like most hip-hop fans, the Philadelphia producer Ike Beatz went to sleep on Thursday night, doing his best to will a new Lil Uzi Vert album — the first since 2017 — into existence. Even though Ike claims he hasn’t seen the rapper in four years, the producer worked on …
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By the time Debbie Harry started Blondie, she’d already seen a great deal of the world — or at least become plenty worldly. By 29, she’d played housewife to (though never married) a blue-collar worker in New Jersey, escaped to New York and stumbled upon the Velvet Underground playing a …
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The jukebox musical — or “catalog musical,” as some on Broadway prefer to call it — has been running rampant for more than a decade now, leaving both triumphs and travesties in its wake. But even after we’ve seen the lives of Cher, the Temptations, Carole King, and the Four …
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On the Sunday morning before Christmas, Regina King shows up alone at the Villa Carlotta in L.A. That is, unless you count her dog, Cornbread, a 14-year-old Lab-Akita mix with yellow fur, one brown eye and one blue, and a walk that says he’s still too proud to start limping. …
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Those who dream of dancing alongside popular musicians may finally get the chance — sort of — thanks to the latest byproduct of the music industry’s ongoing love affair with holograms. Jadu, a Los Angeles startup that launched on Wednesday morning, is just the most recent in a music industry …
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Even when a new Pixar movie isn’t up to, well, Pixar’s regular high standards, there is still animated magic to be had. That’s the case with Onward, a sweet-silly-slapdash tale about two pointy-earred elves: shy, introverted, teenaged Ian Lightfoot (voiced by Spider-Man Tom Holland) and his blustering, bumbling older brother …
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In early March 1978, Willie Nelson was atop Billboard’s country albums and country singles charts with friend and frequent duet partner Waylon Jennings. Their Waylon & Willie LP had spawned a massive hit with “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys,” which enjoyed a four-week run at …
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Drake dropped his first two solo songs of 2020 with the late-night arrival of “When to Say When” and “Chicago Freestyle,” with the rapper unveiling both tracks in one music video. The “When to Say When” half of the video, directed by Theo Skudra, shows Drake providing a visual tour …
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Summer used to be the time for blockbusters, but the slow creep of all-summer-movies-all-year-long means that we know get a new Pixar film, a live action adaptation of a Disney classic and a sequel to a 2018 horror hit in…March. Also this month: a buddy film involving two frontiersmen and …
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Los Angeles native Angelica Garcia is not just another It Girl. The daughter of Mexican and Salvadoran parents, the 26-year-old singer-songwriter alchemizes regional Mexican folk sounds with her indie rock grit and R&B heart into fight songs, which illuminate every facet of her blended, multicultural experience. This year Garcia went …
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