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The music world is in mourning Richard Lloyd, the guitar virtuoso from Television, the New York band that put CBGB on the map and kicked off the punk rock explosion. Lloyd made Television one of the all-time great guitar bands, in his tumultuous partnership with Tom Verlaine. He died on Saturday, at 75, after a

Ariana Grande, Ben Stiller, and Robert De Niro appeared on The Tonight Show to discuss collaborating on the upcoming comedy film Focker In-Law. The trio talked about making the sequel and took the opportunity to participate in a few skits and games. “It was very surreal,” Grande said of joining the film franchise, adding that

Dashboard Confessional will celebrate the 25th anniversary of their seminal Unplugged performance with a 15-date North American tour. The trek kicks off in Chicago on March 12 and continues through April 3, when it wraps in San Francisco. It will hit cities like New York, Boston, Nashville, and Los Angeles. “Dashboard Confessional’s Unplugged was a

In honor of Gram Parsons’ well-deserved posthumous induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, we thought it might be fun to ask ourselves a musical question. It wasn’t meant to be rhetorical, but now we’re not so sure. “Hot Burrito #1” or “Hot Burrito #2”? Let us explain. Back in 1969, the Flying

Joe Biden will do limited promotion of his upcoming memoir, Promise Me, America, due to his prostate cancer diagnosis. In a statement on social media, the former president shared that his battle with the disease has slowed him down. “Some days are better than others,” Biden wrote. “It hasn’t stopped me. But sometimes it slows

Del Casher, the guitarist and inventor whose innovations included the wah-wah pedal, has died at the age of 88. Casher died October 1 following a battle with cancer, according to a GoFundMe to raise money for his widow Eiko. TMZ was first to report on Casher’s death. Born Delton Kacher in Hammond, Indana, Casher first

Andy Richter, who had a small role in the 2003 Christmas classic Elf, revealed in a new interview that U2’s the Edge wrote a screenplay for the sequel to the Will Ferrell-starring film. For over two decades, Elf fans have clamored for a sequel to the film, and while an Elf 2 came close to

A 2026 NASCAR Cup Series Champion will be crowned on Sunday — here’s how to watch the race online The 2026 NASCAR season wraps up this Sunday with the Cup Series Championship race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Two-time Cup Series Champion Kyle Larson is the favorite to win on Sunday with a 67-point lead over Christopher

The episode marks the President’s first official sit-down since Democrats flipped more than 40 House seats during the midterms President Trump is set to appear on 60 Minutes tonight, in his first official sit-down interview since the Democrats took control of the House and Senate this week. At a Glance: How to Watch President Trump

In the 1988 documentary Rattle and Hum, B.B. King chats with Bono, then 27. The bluesman reflects on his station in life: “[People] say, ‘There he is, a 62-year-old — and what is he trying to do?’” It’s a question that U2‘s members may have asked themselves as they worked on Carnaval de Luz, their

If the term “post-rock” wasn’t already taken, it would be a perfect descriptor for the fractured, future-warped music of Polyphia, a largely instrumental foursome who take virtuosic guitar music into places that would melt older shredders’ minds. Even as fleet-fingered guitarists Tim Henson and Scott LePage keep pushing guitar technique forward, they’ve evinced minimal interest

“Hey, how come John gets a table?” Sam Rockwell asks, shooting faux-daggers out of his eyes. “Where’s my table?!” “I get a table, Sam, because I’m fucking better than you,” John Malkovich calmly replies, in what can only be described as a John Malkovich voice. “Just because you’re fucking better than me doesn’t mean you

Ben Labat has been on the verge of stardom. He had a major-label deal with Capitol Records, and his music has been featured in zeitgeist television shows from The Real World to Jersey Shore. But after a career that spans nearly three decades, the Louisiana native has found himself most comfortable when he’s processing his

We get it, November just started … but holiday season is just around the corner, and Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” is quickly defrosting. This season, it feels like every artist is trying to throw their hat into the holiday music canon. From Olivia Rodrigo to Alanis Morissette and Thalia, there’s

Justin Timberlake has finally revealed that his 2006 hit “What Goes Around… Comes Around,” long assumed to be about his ex-girlfriend Britney Spears, is not about that pop singer. Nearly 20 years after the FutureSex/LoveSounds single was released, Timberlake addressed the rumors about the song’s inspiration in a new video interview with Complex, At the

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New York rock band The Strokes made their fifth musical guest appearance on Saturday Night Live, performing two songs from their latest studio album, Reality Awaits. The group, who were last on SNL in 2020 to promote that year’s The New Abnormal, opened with “Lonely in the Future.” The nine-track album, like its predecessor, was

Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update rubbed in the GOP’s midterm losses and knocked Donald Trump‘s promotion of Stephen Miller as his next chief of staff. Tuesday’s midterms will leave Trump without Republican majorities in either chamber of Congress for the next two years. The president, reacting to his party’s disastrous showing, told reporters this week

Saturday Night Live host, actor and comedian Druski starred in a sketch that imagined a prelude to You Can See Everything, the metadocumentary about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. In the sketch, it is revealed that before the tech fraudster had Nathan Fielder interview her, she talked to Druski. Druski was immediately skeptical of Holmes (Jane