Author: Press Room
One of the first times I remember seeing Dolly Parton as a child was on a talk show. Late Night With David Letterman, most likely, though I don’t remember exactly which man was in the chair. How could I, when Parton, with her big smile, sky-high hair, and pronounced…assets was also on my screen? On the cusp of puberty myself and feeling the way my existence in the world was changing alongside my body, I asked my mother why Parton looked the way she did. She responded that she wanted people to look at her. That it was part of…
In her first public appearance following the successful debut of her all-women festival, Daisy Chain Fields, Olivia Rodrigo joined Cameron Crowe for a conversation on Tuesday at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. The event was held as a preview for the museum’s new exhibit, Olivia Rodrigo: The Cure Unraveled, which features the sets, artwork, and props that were fashioned for her music video for “The Cure,” released earlier this year. “The concept of ‘The Cure’ was a feeling that I had been trying to articulate for a really long time, but I didn’t really know how,” Rodrigo told Crowe.…
Michael Sanft, the defense attorney who represented Duane “Keffe D” Davis in his trial for the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur, told NBC News his client intends to appeal the conviction. “Even before the first set of jurors came in for jury selection, we knew it was going to be an appeal issue,” Sanft said. Davis was convicted Monday of first-degree murder with use of a deadly weapon. He will be sentenced, possibly for life in prison, on Oct. 13. “For a jury to come back two-and-a-half hours after submitting it to them … they had pretty much made up…
Sean Ono Lennon has announced the birth of baby boy, Aurelius – with the child becoming John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s first grandchild. The musician and his girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl announced the birth on social media last night (Tuesday September 1), sharing a photo of the three of them together and saying that they had “created a Human Bean”. The caption also shared that they had named him Aurelius, and the birth marks the first grandchild of Yoko Ono and John Lennon. Ono Lennon also posted some other photos of himself and his partner holding the baby, and comments…
After a five-year break from studio releases, Andy Stott has returned to his toolbox for a new album. Late Loop, a press release notes, is the product of fewer tools than usual: The British producer made the record using no basslines, no reverb, and no effects but a delay unit. The follow-up to Never the Right Time arrives October 30, via Modern Love. Watch Kitty Handley’s video for new track “Something in Mind” below.After evolving from an experimental drone album to “something like brass band concrète,” Stott decided he wanted the album to be more song-led, the press release notes.…
W hen I first met Rahm Emanuel, almost 25 years ago, he had a pretty solid reputation, in some quarters, as an arrogant prick. Rahm — even then, he needed only one name, like Cher or Snoop — was recognized by his fellow Democrats as a brilliant political tactician, which is how he had risen to become one of Bill Clinton’s chief enforcers in the White House. But he was also known to be self-certain, occasionally thuggish, and unusually crass. (For many years, there seemed to be a rule in journalism that one couldn’t write about Emanuel without prudishly noting…
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has signed on as executive producer for the forthcoming documentary Freedom Theatre. Directed by Rishi Pelham, the film follows resistance fighter turned artist Ahmed Tobasi as he fights to keep a theatre open in the middle of the Jenin refugee camp in Palestine. Variety reports that the film took five years to shoot, and is intended for a tour of film festivals, heading to Venice this month to look for potential distribution partners. Pelham told the outlet: “I didn’t intentionally set out to make this film. I kept returning to Jenin, to the theatre, to…
Amy Poehler’s return! A reboot 30 years in the making! Stories based on real life! Stories crafted from wild imaginations! This upcoming slate of series has it all It’s already been a bang-up year for TV, with excellent shows like A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Wonder Man, Widow’s Bay, and Liz Meriwether’s just-concluded Furious arriving to upend our expectations about what certain genres, stars, or even streamers can do. And the rest of the year looks equally promising. While the next few months will see several eagerly anticipated returning series — including Slow Horses, Lupin (after a three-year hiatus!),…
Jake Bugg has announced “vulnerable” and exposing new album ‘Alamo’, along with country-tinged lead single ‘Never Can Tell’ and details of a 2027 tour. The album marks the seventh from the indie rock icon, and is set for release via Thirty Tigers on November 13. Pre-order it here. Produced by longtime friend and producer Jimmy Hogarth (Amy Winehouse, Paolo Nutini) and Steve McKewan (Chris Stapleton, Eminem), the album sees Bugg lean into themes of introspection and raw, unfiltered emotion – taking a deep dive into some of the struggles he has faced in recent years. Throughout the tracklist, the singer…
Alanis Morissette has filed a lawsuit against her ex-tour manager – accusing her of blackmail and an extortion scheme over airport trafficking charges. The filing was made yesterday (Tuesday September 1) at a federal court in California, and saw the singer call her 2025 European tour manager, Keren Urinov, “a disgruntled” former employee, and accuse her of extortion, fraud, and negligent misrepresentation. She alleges that Urinov blackmailed her with issues regarding drug trafficking charges, in an attempt to pressure the ‘Hand In My Pocket’ singer to sign a 15-year-long contract. In the lawsuit, Morissette claimed that in 2025 Urinov was…
