If you’re “Saturday Night Live” and you need someone to play Alexander Hamilton in an opening sketch about the Founding Fathers, there’s only one person you can turn to: Lin-Manuel Miranda.And then you make him stand there in...
Feb. 14, 1981Funky 4 + 1Invited by the host and “Rapture” hitmaker Debbie Harry of Blondie, the Funky 4 + 1 became the first hip-hop group to perform on national network TV, rapping their giddy funk bomb “That’s...
It began as a scoop in a weekly tabloid: the allegation that a middle-aged former boy-band star turned top television host had paid hush money to a woman for unspecified wrongdoing.Other articles followed, asserting that it was a...
Mr. Hudson continued to be sought after and widely admired, performing and recording with dozens of musicians, including Leonard Cohen, Tom Petty and Roger Waters, the Pink Floyd singer-songwriter and bassist.For a group that captured so much of...
Did anything come out of nowhere and surprise you?The Fear story was one that I wanted to know about forever. When I first got to 30 Rock in 2009 , I purposely waited six months to figure out...
Jazz Is Dead initially brought Taylor to the United States in 2022 for his very first American shows. The singer and actress Janelle Monáe was among those who attended his concert in Los Angeles at Lodge Room that...
A onetime foulmouthed white rapper remade as an icon of right-wing country rebellion. An iconic disco-pop outfit with a crossover hit often understood to be about gay cruising that has become a global sports-and-bar-mitzvah anthem.These are the sorts...
One man was known as a killer, sentenced to life in prison in 2009 for killing a 16-year-old London student in a gruesome confrontation at a bakery.The other man was a balaclava-wearing rapper from South London, known as...
Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicThe Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” focuses on just a few crucial years at the beginning of the songwriter’s career, from 1961, when he relocated to New York from...
TikTok faces a possible ban in the coming days, but that did not stop one notable new user from joining the app this week: Bob Dylan.A verified account for the legendary singer-songwriter, Nobel Prize-winner and current subject of...
