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Seven musicians open up about navigating the complications and cruelty of American health care: 'You realize the whole system is broken, religion is broken, government is fucking broken - you're on your own.'
Kevin Mazur, WireImage When Keith Richards calls Spinner on a rainy Wednesday evening, he's in a jovial mood. The Rolling Stones are about to release a deluxe edition of their 1978 classic album 'Some Girls' on Nov. 21 and Keef recently revealed that he'll be jamming with bandmates Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts in London.
It's been a busy couple weekends for Mike Piazza. The 47-year-old was inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame in July and the weekend after had his number 31 retired by the Mets, the club whose cap graces his plaque in Cooperstown.
As the Hollywood strike stretches on, Vulture spoke to writers, actors, and crew members shared their hopes, fears, frustrations - and salaries in the latest edition of "Anonymous in Hollywood."
When a mystery woman's burning body is found in an oil field in 2006, the rural community of Kilgore and a determined Texas lawman show why you don't mess with the Lone Star State. It takes 13 years to ID this Lavender Doe and nab her callous killer.
The case of Courtney Coco cools until a retired homicide detective, turned podcaster, discovers her killer hiding in plain sight.
Despite its title, you won't hear an unkind word about Joan Jett in the new documentary Bad Reputation (out Sept....
12 comedians, actors, and late-night hosts - including Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Rogen, Bill Hader, Reggie Watts, Sarah Silverman, Nicole Byer, and Adam Pally - reflect on Conan O'Brien's incredibly influential late-night legacy.
Rob Shanahan Even when Ringo Starr is in a rush, he's still as happy as anyone can be. On Tuesday afternoon, Spinner caught up with the Beatles legend during a break in rehearsals for 'The Late Late Show' to chat about his new album, 'Ringo 2012,' which is out now via Universal.
"Wine Country" star and former "SNL" writer Paula Pell on watching her friends get famous, going topless at Rachel Dratch's 50th, and the last bastion of comedy: fat.
Talking with New York City-based comedy-club owners, comedians, and an epidemiologist about how the COVID-19 pandemic created a "speakeasy culture" in the comedy scene over the last year.
Mick Jagger tells us all about the 'Some Girls' deluxe edition, its New York and disco influences, the lies and rumors about their songs and how the hit track 'When the Whip Comes Down' -- about a gay man living in the city -- surprisingly never led anyone to question his sexuality.
The Grammy winner on the highs and lows of his career - including his new custom Fender guitar, working with the Drive-By Truckers, songwriting and sobriety, penning love songs for his wife Amanda Shires, and friendship with the late John Prine.
After fighting for fair pay on the field, U.S. women's soccer stars Christen Press, Meghan Rapinoe, Tobin Heath, and Meghan Klingenberg decided to "disrupt [the] male-dominated space" of streetwear.
The "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" star jumps to Apple TV Plus with this new comedy about a video game creator beset by Nazi trolls and the industry's gender disparity.
An intimate look inside a percussion workshop at the infamous jail featuring classic rock drummers Carmen and Vinny Appice
The rock powerhouses on their fast, longtime friendship, first song together "Like We Used To", and their future of collaborating together.
In the spirit of looking back at Weezer's vast catalog with an eye to the future, Vulture caught up with Rivers Cuomo to talk through the best, most underappreciated, and most enduring songs of his career
Charles Bradley wouldn't want you to be sad today (Sept. 23), after his death from cancer at age 68. He'd probably tell you to go out and hug somebody, make them smile, give them a little help in their time of need.
It's been a busy year for former WWE champ Mick Foley. After retiring in the ring, the Hardcore Legend recently returned to the company as the general manager of Raw, providing a steady presence alongside Stephanie McMahon on the flagship show.
"I've never been more successful than I am now," Tony Bennett says with wonderment, sitting in his art studio overlooking Central Park. The 89-year-old crooner is here to talk about his new album, , a covers collection dedicated to the early 20th-century composer who wrote such classics as "The Way You Look Tonight," "All the Things You Are," and "I'm Old Fashioned."
Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell owe their musical partnership to a happy accident. Back in the mid-Seventies, Harris just happened to hear a few of Crowell's songs on a cassette tape intended for Anne Murray, who was making an album at the time.
The host discusses the "surreal" experience of the podcast playing in court, Curtis Flowers' release, and the future of the series.
To read more Untold Stories, pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly on stands now, or buy it here....
The actor opens up about his Showtime series and how it looks at how the greed and politics of the '80s, while mirroring present-day chaos.
Atlanta Braves third baseman and future Hall of Famer Chipper Jones retired from baseball in 2012 after 20 seasons and 468 home runs. Off the field, he's kept busy raising his four boys and hitting the golf course two to three days a week, satisfying his competitive urges by shaving five or six strokes off his handicap, and devoting as much time as he can to another life-long love: deer hunting.
Tenacious D, the self-proclaimed greatest band in the world, are on a mission. The duo of Jack Black and Kyle...
The Southern rocker shares his thoughts on American race relations, therapy, marriage, and releasing an album during a pandemic
A week before her death on April 7, 2021, original 'Saturday Night Live' writer Anne Beatts opened up about her time on the show, collaborating with the writers and cast, and much more.
Joe Posnanski author of "The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini," on what the illusionist can teach us about modern America.
In Luca Guadagnino's new film A Bigger Splash , Tilda Swinton plays Marianne Lane, a rock star recovering from vocal-cord surgery on the remote Italian island Pantelleria with her younger filmmaker boyfriend, Paul (Matthias Schoenaerts).
The former Detroit Lions' cannabis company, Primative, is opening dispensaries in Michigan this year.
It's been a hectic week for Run the Jewels. In the span of a few days, the duo of Killer Mike and El-P played a New York show, announced their second album ( RTJ2), and released the single "Blockbuster Night Part 1," all while keeping close watch on the horrific events taking place in Ferguson, Missouri after the killing of Michael Brown.
Aron Warner Best Animated Feature, Shrek (2001) To prepare for the ceremony, I tried to find the most effective pair of man-Spanx I could, but failing that, I found a good tuxedo. As for the speech - this was a very unique award because I was accepting a collective award on behalf of 250 people, so it wasn't an individual achievement by any means.
Early in Alejandro González Iñárritu's frontier endurance test The Revenant, Leonardo DiCaprio comes between a mama grizzly and her cubs, resulting in a vicious attack (which was misidentified by some viewers as a rape) that sets the film's plot in motion.
Gino DePinto One of the all-time great reggae artists and a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Jimmy Cliff carries himself like a younger musician on the rise. Graceful and polite he gives off no sense of ego when he stops by Spinner's office.
Danny Clinch On Thursday, Dec. 6, Neil Young and Crazy Horse will perform a special benefit concert for Hurricane Sandy victims at Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa.
Welcome to the next great debate about the legitimacy of creativity.
With Wilco taking a break to work on other projects, frontman Jeff Tweedy decided it was finally time to record his debut solo album. The 47-year-old intended to play every instrument on every song, until he hit one big obstacle: "I'm a terrible drummer."
Nearly four years after wrapping his acclaimed firefighting drama Rescue Me, Denis Leary is back on FX in a much different role. On the comedy Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll he plays Johnny Rock, a washed-up, substance-abusing singer whose heralded '90s band broke up the day of their debut album's release.
@miguel and @danielsannwald Break Down the Spacey, Neon Album Art of “Wildheart” To see more of Miguel and Daniel Sannwald's photos, check out @miguel and @danielsannwald on Instagram. For more music stories, head to @music. "In the Bible, it says we're created in God's image and we are gods ourselves.
Charles Bradley doesn't want your pity. Not for the years he spent homeless in New York City, or hitchhiking across the country looking for a cooking job and the occasional singing gig. Not for the 30 days he spent in a California jail, held for assault with a deadly weapon after he used a knife in self-defense against a white attacker.
In the summer of 2012, Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner used his downtime to direct his first movie, Are You Here, a sort-of comedy, mostly bleak drama about the complexities of male friendship.
Of course, tonight is David Letterman's final night as host of the Late Show, but it's also Paul Shaffer's last night as his bandleader. To celebrate Shaffer's 33 years in late night (40 if you include Saturday Night Live), Vulture asked another late-night bandleader, Fred Armisen, to pay tribute.
When Astronautalis (@astronautalis) traveled to Dubai in late 2015 for a gig, he expected a “temple of decadence” –– a modern Babylon that catered to rich tourists and businessmen. Instead, he found a passionate group of music-loving expats who, in his view, are realizing the romanticized American Dream like Ellis Island immigrants and Oklahoma homesteaders.
The tragedy that occurred during the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas has the distinction of being the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history - with at least 58 people killed and more than 500 wounded. But in the past few years, it's become a familiar sort of scene.
Growing up in the ‘80s and ‘90s, Kristin Welchez (@kristinkontrol) — best known as Dee Dee, the founder and frontwoman of garage rock band Dum Dum Girls — wasn’t allowed to watch MTV. “I was getting my pop culture in dance classes,” she says.
For a comedy writer, having even one sketch make it to air on Saturday Night Live is a dream come true. On the other hand, trying to get a scene to go from page to screen can be a living nightmare for the staff scribes.
In the states where marijuana is legal, dispensaries employ budtenders - weed sommeliers who can recommend strains based on the kind of high you want, what activities you might be doing while stoned, or any physical or mental conditions you're looking to treat.
Fifteen years before Robert Durst became a celebrity of sorts thanks to HBO's The Jinx , People reporter Matt Birkbeck began following the case, interviewing friends, family, investigators, and others about the strange real-estate tycoon and the disappearance of his wife Kathie.
Beyond changing late night, David Letterman shifted what America found funny. With him saying good-bye tonight, Vulture asked Scott Aukerman, host of the Comedy Bang! Bang! TV show and podcast, to say a few words about his comedy idol. Dan Reilly spoke with Aukerman for this as-told-to piece.
In the upcoming film True Story, Jonah Hill stars as real-life journalist Michael Finkel, who was fired from The New York Times Magazine in 2001 for falsifying details in a story about child slavery in Africa.
"I always say that there's this magnet for weird people." That's how 26-year-old rapper Lizzo describes Minneapolis, the adopted city that helped propel her from relative unknown to the opener on Sleater-Kinney's much-hyped reunion tour in just a couple years.
Conor McGregor might be the most charming fella who'll gladly make it his mission to punch your head clean off, as long as the price is right. In the UFC octagon, the brash 26-year-old from Dublin is as vicious as they come, but over a light breakfast in the Men's Health New York office, he's making friends left and right, gladly posing for pictures, cracking jokes, and showing off his giant gold watch.
Damon Dahlen, AOL In House is AOL Music's series in which we welcome artists into our offices to play some music, chat with our staffers and, generally, just hang out. For our latest visit, Spinner sat down with Minneapolis singer and rapper Dessa to discuss her career, her new album with Doomtree, 'No Kings,' and her views on homophobia and feminism in hip-hop.
Aretha Franklin and Clive Davis' relationship began in 1980, when the Queen of Soul signed with the mogul's Arista Records. "And 20 years later, I made the right decision," Franklin tells Billboard of agreeing to that union. She had plenty of hits during that era, most notably her 1987 no.
The hip-hop icon RZA has been popping up in the news quite frequently of late, having helped prep a secret Wu-Tang Clan project called Once Upon a Time in Shaolin for auction to one (and only one) buyer, finding himself caught up in a war of words with Wu colleague Raekwon over the crew's upcoming A Better Tomorrow, and promoting his role alongside the late Paul Walker as a drug lord in the new action film Brick Mansions.
Gino DePinto, AOL "The first album was the darkness and now this is bringing the light out of me." That's how 64-year-old Charles Bradley, the Screaming Eagle of Soul, sums up his recently released second album, Victim of Love. If you don't know Charles' backstory, you're missing out on one of the most heartwarming, inspiring stories in music.
To the Scottish, Robert Burns is a national treasure, and if the 18th-century poet and lyricist's name doesn't ring a bell, some of his most iconic works surely will. For instance, if you've ever found yourself singing "Auld Lang Syne" as the clock crept past midnight on New Year's Eve, you're already familiar with Rabbie's best-known song, which he composed in 1788 by combining traditional folk lyrics with his own.
As the saying goes, the more things change, the more they stay the same. For Vic Ruggiero, the singer and keyboard player of longtime New York City ska act the Slackers, that statement certainly holds true about his band.
Certified bear-resistant. Virtually indestructible. Toughest cases on earth. These are the claims of some of the high-end coolers on the market today. To which we say: Challenge accepted. We threw three of these ice chests off a cliff and out of a moving car to see if the claims were true-and then had a live bear try his own paws at it.
While moviegoers might best remember Alfred Molina's most dastardly roles - Dr. Octopus, the Sister Christian-loving drug dealer in Boogie Nights, the guide who double-crosses Indiana Jones in the opening scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark - his role as a husband to John Lithgow in Ira Sachs' new film Love Is Strange could easily make the most lasting impression.
On the same 2012 day Alynda Lee Segarra, the singer-songwriter behind Hurray for the Riff Raff, celebrated her 25th birthday, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. Inspired by a recent visit to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Segarra released a video for "Everybody Knows (for Trayvon Martin)" on her next birthday, paying tribute to the slain teenager.
Let us all raise a glass to Parks and Recreation, which returns from a long slumber tonight to celebrate its 100th episode. Who knows, the Pawnee parks department may drink along with us; booze has played a role in more than a fifth of the plots, thanks to the Snakehole Lounge, occasions to sip oversize margaritas, and epic Scotch-related quests.
The This is harder to answer and nearly impossible to ask. If Marquez is the best racer on Earth, what is assured his place in the MotoGP pantheon along the likes of the dominant Marquez might blush when hears his idol compliment him, but when the upstart straddles his bike, he's all ice.
Photo: Christian Petersen / Getty Images For a number one NFL draft pick - a 6'5", 266-pound man who can run a 4.53-second forty - Jadeveon Clowney is a relaxed guy. The defensive end, linebacker hybrid is expected to spend this season co-starring in a defensive highlight reel with Pro Bowlers J.J.
It's an overcast but not unpleasant morning when we meet Slash in midtown New York City.
When you watch Scarlett Johansson's Gymnastics may have launched Moneymaker's career, but she's shaped it by learning to fight, handle weapons (both conventional and extraterrestrial), do wire work, and stunt drive.
Tribeca Film The National's lead singer Matt Berninger has always been somewhat of an outsider in his own band. Guitarists Bryce and Aaron Dessner are twins, while bassist Scott Devendorf and drummer Bryan Devendorf are brothers.
Sitting near the front window at Maggie Brown, a comfort food spot in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Clinton Hill, Talib Kweli is explaining how much the area has transformed since he was a student at the nearby technical high school. "This used to be called Murder Ave.," he says about the now-posh Myrtle Ave.
John Legend has plenty of reasons to be happy right now. The R&B crooner recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of his debut album, Get Lifted, which coincided with his 36th birthday, and a couple of weeks later, he won his first Golden Globe for "Glory," his powerful duet with rapper Common from the Martin Luther King Jr.
In the weeks leading up to June 16, 1989, I can only imagine how incessantly my seven-year-old self pestered my parents to go see Ghostbusters II. I spent years obsessed with the 1984 original, once watching it on repeat from the moment I woke up to the moment I got sent to bed, wearing my plastic proton pack and reciting all the lines, most importantly those of Bill Murray's Dr. Peter Venkman.
For an artist who's almost permanently cheerful and smiling, Josh Ritter's 2013 album The Beast in Its Tracks was a surprisingly mournful turn for the singer-songwriter, but who could blame him? After all, the songs were all written, sometimes overtly, about his 2010 divorce from fellow musician Dawn Landes.
It's been 22 years since Ice-T released the highly controversial "Cop Killer" with his thrash-metal band Body Count, and though the pioneering rapper has been busier playing a cop on TV since 2000, he hasn't given up on making more in-your-face, scary-yet-funny music.
It is one thing to read the blurb on the back of your favorite scotch and another to ferry out to the Hebrides. It is a third and far, far better thing to actually track the precious liquid back to its original source, especially when that source happens to be a peat-darkened loch on the famed island of Islay.
In the '90s, ska became one of many "next big genres," hyped by record labels and trendspotters as the music that the kids were into. Third-wave ska, preceded by its Jamaican roots and the 2 Tone genre popularized by the Specials and Madness, added sped-up punk influences, creating a hybrid that would bring acts like No Doubt, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Reel Big Fish to the mainstream.
Suren Gazaryan didn't intend to be an activist. The Russian zoologist's goal was to study wild bats, but chiropterology brought him to the Black Sea coast, an area flush with oligarchs' money, and in front of the bulldozers.
Getting onstage and trying to make people laugh is a daunting task in its own right. On a whim, Todd Barry took it to another level, performing shows having no material prepared, instead relying solely on audience interaction to fuel the humor.
Gino DePinto, AOL Though their individual members have found varying degrees of success in their solo careers, Minneapolis based hip-hop collective Doomtree are blowing up on the strength of their third album, "No Kings." Touring behind their ambitious effort, the group -- Cecil Otter, Dessa, Lazerbeak, Mike Mictlan, Paper Tiger, P.O.S.
Like many things in 22 Jump Street, Ice Cube's Captain Dickson is bigger, badder, and a bit dumber than he was in the surprisingly hilarious 2012 original based on the classic Fox cop show.
Before last month's release of Do to the Beast, it had been 16 years since the Afghan Whigs released a studio album. For much of that time, frontman Greg Dulli has divided his time between Los Angeles and New Orleans, where he now owns a house and the neighborhood watering hole and inn R Bar.
While the alter egos of stand-up duo Garfunkel and Oates pay homage to two of rock & roll's top "second bananas," musicians/comedians Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci are more likely to sing about blowjobs and pompous pregnant women than, say, troubled waters or dreams coming true.
"I love you and I'm so glad that I'm here today," told an auditorium full of elementary schoolers, teachers, and special guests at New York City's Patrick Henry Prep this morning.
Brazil's number 10 jersey might as well weigh a hundred pounds. Famously worn by Pelé, the legendary forward who is arguably the best soccer player of all time and a three-time World Cup winner, that uniform is reserved for the national team's star, one whose play-making talents transcend those of his teammates and opponents alike.
(Photo by Kelly Mahan for The Bluegrass Situation) Christopher Porterfield didn't know it at the time, but as he was writing the songs for his second Field Report album, he was sending himself messages that it was past time to give up booze.
At every Olympics, America's top athletes compete for national pride and personal glory. These are the best of the best.
After winning the first American gold medal at the Sochi Olympics, not to mention the first-ever gold in the snowboarding slopestyle competition, Sage Kotsenburg has found himself at the center of a media whirlwind.
If Timothy Olyphant is nervous about life after Justified, he certainly doesn't let it show. FX recently announced that the show (airing Tuesdays) would end next year after its sixth season, but to hear him talk about it makes it seem like business as usual. Olyphant shares the quiet cool of his character, U.S.
For William Dunlop, motorcycle racing is a family business. If it wasn't, the 28-year-old from Ballymoney, Northern Ireland might have more family. Dunlop's legendary uncle Joey died on the Pirita-Kose-Kloostrimetsa Circuit in Estonia in 2000 and his father, Robert, lost his life after being thrown over the handlebars while going 160 mph during a trial run before the 2008 North West 200 in Northern Ireland.
After more than 50 years in the business, with over 100 million albums sold and a slew of hits that are heard everywhere from bars to weddings to ballparks, Neil Diamond decided it was finally time to play a concert in his native Brooklyn.
