Keep the Throwbacks Coming After Miley Cyruss Plastic Hearts With These Albums

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1196 words  |  Zora Stowers

Just a few influences and then some. Miley Cyrus has long worn her influences on her sleeve, from duetting with everyone from Joan Jett to her godmother, Dolly Parton, to covering musicians from every genre under the sun. She’s long revered the rock greats, from ’60s giants like the Beatles and the Velvet Underground to the punk and glam rockers of the ’70s and ’80s. This year, we’ve finally gotten to hear her take clearer ownership of those influences — first on covers of Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” and Hall & Oates’s “Maneater,” then on her Stevie Nicks–indebted single, “Midnight Sky,” and now on her long-awaited rock album, Plastic Hearts. [Read More]

Kendrick Lamar and the Art of the Guest Appearance

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1231 words  |  Zora Stowers

There are years when Kendrick Lamar doesn’t release an album, but he never takes a year off: Any listener to his music knows that, however spiritually troubled the artist is, being unable to write lyrics has not been a worry for a very long time. Kendrick’s prodigious output and his determination to craft seamless concept albums practically ensure that he’ll have plenty of extra verses; the rhymes that didn’t make the cut for his elaborate stage directions end up being, in non-album years, helpful contributions to the songs of others. [Read More]

Kenny Powers Gets the Highlight Reel He So Richly Deserves

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  65 words  |  Sherie Connelly

While we patiently bide our time waiting for the brain trust over at HBO to release the audiobook for Kenny Powers’s autobiography, You’re Fucking Out, I’m Fucking In, we would like to pass along our hearty thanks to YouTube user iWonDeRwHAtsneXt15 for compiling a highlight reel of the Eastbound & Down’s antihero. [Holy Taco]

Kenny Powers Gets the Highlight Reel He So Richly Deserves

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Kevin Bacon on His Crazy Blue Eyes and His Gory New Show, The Following

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  948 words  |  Elina Uphoff

It can be a grim affair promoting a show that some critics are already calling the most violent drama on broadcast television. Perhaps that’s why during a press conference last week, when a reporter commented on the chemistry between leads Kevin Bacon and James Purefoy by saying, “Oooh, I just want them to kiss,” Bacon obliged. No such thing will happen on The Following, an ultragory cat-and-mouse game from horror maestro Kevin Williamson. [Read More]

Kevin Costner Isnt Sorry for Casting His Beautiful, Whispering Boy

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  368 words  |  Zora Stowers

Shhh. Close your eyes and picture this: You’re on set just outside Moab, Utah; it’s 109 degrees; and you’re dressed in period costume to film Horizon: An American Saga with Kevin Costner himself, when suddenly you hear it: a whispering boy. He is Costner’s boy, you see, and a beautiful one. He plays the role of Nathaniel Kittredge, a character the Today show has described as an “earnest son of a pair of settlers. [Read More]

Kiefer Sutherland Almost Made Freddie Prinze Jr. Quit Acting

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  270 words  |  Zora Stowers

While promoting his new show Star Wars Rebels at Comic-Con, ‘90s heartthrob turned obscure pop-culture curio Freddie Prinze Jr. had some choice words to share about former 24 co-star Kiefer Sutherland, telling ABC News: “I did 24, it was terrible. I hated every moment of it. I just wanted to quit the business after that.” He continued: “Kiefer was the most unprofessional dude in the world. That’s not me talking trash, I’d say it to his face. [Read More]

Lana Del Rey Successfully Returns to Her Hip-Hop Influences With High by the Beach

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  420 words  |  Janel Helmers

Lana Del Rey’s “High by the Beach” leaked two days ahead of its scheduled premiere today on Beats Radio 1 (her label has pulled the leaks diligently). The second single from LDR’s fourth album, “High by the Beach” follows her new LP’s title track, “Honeymoon,” a macabre ballad that suggested she had found her calling in the orchestra-backed contributions she’s made to Tim Burton and Baz Luhrmann soundtracks. “High by the Beach,” however, indicates something else: that Lana Del Rey hasn’t abandoned her whole “gangster Nancy Sinatra” thing, and it might not want to make you cringe anymore. [Read More]

Lana Del Reys Love Is Marvelously Good

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  312 words  |  Elina Uphoff

“Love” is pretty much exactly what you’d expect from a Lana Del Rey song in the artist’s later, more chilled-out phase: short verses, no shortage of repetitions, and so obvious it hurts. As the chorus indicates, the song is about being “young and in love.” “Love” is also, needless to say, marvelously good, yet another masterful display of Del Rey’s gift for transmuting, without apparent effort, kitsch into myth, nostalgia into presence. [Read More]

Larry David, Wanda Sykes, Bill Burr, and More to Play New York Comedy Fest 2013

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  133 words  |  Zora Stowers

The New York Comedy Festival is turning 10 this year, and they’re drawing some pretty big names this time around. The organizers behind the fest, which is produced in association with Comedy Central, announced the 2013 lineup yesterday. Larry David is set to engage in a one-on-one conversation with comedy vet David Steinberg, who hosts the Showtime interview series Inside Comedy. The roster also features Wanda Sykes, Bill Burr, John Mulaney, Anthony Jeselnik, Nick Swardson, Whitney Cummings, Kathy Griffin, Jim Jefferies, and Bill Maher, who will be playing at the festival’s prestigious venues like Beacon Theatre, Carnegie Hall, the Theater at Madison Square Garden, and Town Hall. [Read More]

Late Night Contends With Joe Biden as a Front-Running Presidential Candidate

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  691 words  |  Sherie Connelly

It seemed as though late-night was going to be all about Game of Thrones and Avengers: Endgame this week. I was all set to write a story about why the woman who was hospitalized in China for crying too hard probably isn’t true when this clip stopped me in my tracks. For an entire monologue, Stephen Colbert tried to dunk on Joe Biden. But the audience wouldn’t let him. [Read More]