Last weekend’s Shaky Knees saw the return of Big Grams.
Phantogram and Outkast rapper Big Boi reunited for their collaborative project during the former’s show at the Atlanta festival.
According to Setlist.fm, the set closed out with performances of the songs “Born to Shine” and “Fell in the Sun,” both of which appear on Big Grams’ 2015 self-titled debut EP.
You can watch footage of the reunion posted to Phantogram and Big Boi’s InstagramStories.
That Big Grams EP remains the project’s most recent release, and the group hasn’t toured since 2016. One of Big Boi’s Stories reads, “Big Grams 2,” perhaps hinting at more music coming in the future.
Bailey Cypheridge is sharing fond memories of her biological father, the late Rock & Roll Hall of Famer David Crosby.
Bailey’s moms are Melissa Etheridge and her ex partner Julie Cypher, and they eventually revealed that Crosby was their sperm donor, something Bailey says she always knew.
“He was always a really cool presence in my life, even if we never meant to have that kind of parent-child relationship,” she tells People. “He was friends with my parents, he was their donor for me. I thought it was cool growing up, knowing who he was.”
Cypheridge is currently featured on the MTV/Paramount+ series Family Legacy, and she says it gave her some more insight into her family history.
“It’s special that I got to see some footage of him and my mom while I was working on this project,” she says. “It was really special for me to be able to see that and revisit those memories, especially because he passed away earlier this year.”
Crosby passed away in January at age 81, and Cypheridge says, “It’s been tough, missing him, but I think that it was really cool that I got the call, that I got to do this project before that happened.”
She also shares that she has one very special memento of her family that she keeps in her bedroom: the cover of the Rolling Stone where her moms announced Crosby as her bio dad. “I just think it’s really cool thing to have that,” she says, joking, “I mean, I peaked in ’99. Can’t really top that.”
Aerosmith topped the Billboard 200 Album chart with their 11th studio album, Get A Grip, their first U.S. number one.
The album contained the hit songs “Living On The Edge,” “Crazy,” “Cryin’” and “Amazing,” with the success of the latter three aided by a trio of videos featuring Alicia Silverstone that got regular play on MTV.
The cover of the album featured a cow with a nipple ring through its udder and the Aerosmith logo branded into it, which was deemed “the worst album cover ever” by one music critic. It also sparked backlash from animal rights groups, although the band insisted the image was produced digitally.
Get A Grip went on to sell over 20 million copies to become the band’s bestselling studio album worldwide.
(NOTE LANGUAGE) With writers out of work and on picket lines amid the writers strike, some comedy writers have plied their craft to poke fun at Jenna Ortega for her viral comments about the scripts to Netflix’s Wednesday.
As reported back in March, Ortega was critical of some of the scripts for the hit show, tellingDax Shepard‘s Armchair Expert podcast, “I don’t think I’ve ever had to put my foot down more on a set in a way that I had to on Wednesday…There were times on that set where I even became almost unprofessional in a sense where I just started changing lines,” adding, “I had to sit down with the writers, and they’d be like, ‘Wait, what happened to the scene?’ And I’d have to go through and explain why I couldn’t go do certain things.”
Variety spotted one picket sign reportedly from House Party staff writer Brandon Cohen that jabbed, “Without writers, Jenna Ortega will have nothing to punch up!,” using Hollywood speak for making a script better.
BoJack Horseman writer Nick Adams snarkedon Twitter, “Jenna Ortega better be back from NY for her afternoon shift on the picket line,” to which The Bear‘s Karen Joseph Adcockreplied, “Rewriting is writing! See you at the line, Jenna!”
One of Jenna’s many fans defended her, saying she was being used as a “scapegoat,” but Adams wasn’t having it, punching back at the commenter, “she’s not gonna see this and she’s never gonna f*** you. Be better.”
Those jokes have to come out one way or another: “Idle hands are the devil’s playground,” as the saying goes.
A new video for Motörhead‘s cover of the Metallica classic “Enter Sandman” is now streaming on YouTube.
The animated clip, in which a kid haunted by nightmares is saved by the power of rock ‘n’ roll, premieres Monday in honor of this year’s Motörhead Day, which is held May 8. If you don’t know why, trying singing “the eighth of May” to the tune of “Ace of Spades.”
Motörhead’s “Enter Sandman” cover was originally released in 1998. It’s long been exclusive to a CD compilation recorded for the now-defunct Extreme Championship Wrestling.
Along with the video premiere, the “Enter Sandman” cover is now available via digital outlets for the first time. You can also preorder a limited edition vinyl single.
Cardi B has kept fans entertained with singles and guest verses, but it’s been five years since she released her debut album. In a recent Instagram Live, however, she said her next project is on its way.
Seemingly directed toward a friend who was watching the livestream, Cardi said, “You gotta listen to my single. You gotta come and listen to my single.”
“I know, I know, I know I been frontin’, but it’s because my mind has been going crazy b****, ’cause you know, I be everywhere, but you gotta come listen,” the rapper continued. She then discussed her sophomore effort, telling viewers, “This album is coming, OK.”
She previously attributed the delay to anxiety, lack of satisfaction and her other sources of income.
“I’ve been having a lot of anxiety because I know right after I drop my album, I have to go out on tour, and I have bad separation anxiety from my kids. When it comes to music and everything, I just be feeling like I don’t be liking anything,” Cardi once said. “I feel like I got so many songs, and I don’t like anything. I feel like nothing is good enough … And I got so much money saved up I just be like, ‘Yeah, whatever the f***.’”
The tense new trailer for Christopher Nolan‘s star-studded Oppenheimer just debuted, showing the United States in a race against time.
“This is a national emergency,” frequent Nolan player Cillian Murphy says as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. “We’re in a race against the Nazis. And I know what it means if the Nazis have a bomb.”
The film, based on the Pulitzer-winning 2005 book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, shows Oppenheimer lobbying Matt Damon as Leslie Richard Groves Jr., a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who directed the Manhattan Project, which gave birth to The Bomb.
“We’ve got one hope,” Oppenheimer says. “All America’s industrial might and scientific innovation connected here. A secret laboratory. Keep everyone here until it’s done.” To that end, they built a series of towns in “the middle of nowhere,” Los Alamos, New Mexico. Experts in various scientific and military disciplines are recruited and moved in with their families — otherwise, they couldn’t work ’round the clock, Murphy’s character reasons.
Some of the scientists thought the bomb would incinerate the Earth’s atmosphere, something Oppenheimer checks as a “near zero” chance.
“Near zero?” Damon’s character asks, incredulous. “What do you want from theory alone?” Oppenheimer quips.
“Zero would be nice,” Damon replies.
As the tension ratchets up, Oppenheimer pledges, “Our work here will ensure peace mankind has never seen.”
Kenneth Branagh, in a Russian accent, tells Murphy, “You are the man who gave the world the power to destroy themselves. And the world is not prepared.”
Also appearing in the clip is Robert Downey Jr.The movie also stars Gary Oldman as President Harry Truman, Emily Blunt, Rami Malek, Jack Quaid, Florence Pugh and Matthew Modine.
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Taylor Swift‘s shows in Nashville this weekend featured some moments saluting friends and family, a long delay due to the weather and an appearance by The 1975‘s Matty Healy.
During the show on Friday night — during which, as previously reported, Taylor announced the release of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) — fans prepared a special tribute for the song “Marjorie.” The song is about Taylor’s grandmother and a fan got a photo of Marjorie, who was also a singer, and printed 300 copies of it. She distributed the photos at Nissan Stadium, and fans held them up as Taylor performed the song.
Billboardreports that a touched Taylor told the crowd, “I just know that my mom, right now, is just like bawling and has been for the solid last five-and-a-half minutes, and I love you guys so much. That was so meaningful and so special.”
Another tribute, this time from Taylor, came during the performance of her song “Fifteen” on Saturday night. In the audience was the song’s inspiration, Abigail Anderson, who Taylor described as her “beautiful, redheaded high school best friend.” Fans filmed Abigail’s reaction to that intro: she clapped, screamed and put her hand to her heart.
Also on Saturday night, Peoplereports that Taylor’s opening act Phoebe Bridgers was joined onstage by Matty Healy, who British tabloids have insisted is now dating Taylor. Matty, Taylor and Phoebe are longtime friends and collaborators; fans also spotted him watching the show on Friday night.
And finally, due to lightning, Sunday night’s show was delayed for more than three hours: Taylor didn’t take the stage until after 10 p.m. Aaron Dessner joined her for the song “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve.”
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Billy Joel was back at New York’s Madison Square Garden for the 90th show of his residency, and took some time out of the concert to pay tribute to singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who passed away last week at the age of 84.
Joel added a bit of Lightfoot’s 1974 classic “Sundown” to his set. “You might know him from the hit records he had,” Joel told the crowd, according to Rolling Stone, “I want to say ‘thank you,’ and rest in peace Gordon Lightfoot.”
The rocker also performed his own Storm Front track “Downeaster Alexa” in honor of Lightfoot, noting “I was thinking of him singing this next song that I wrote.”
Joel had already paid tribute to Lightfoot on social media, playing a bit of “If You Could Read My Mind,” and calling him “a lifelong musical hero of mine,” adding, “His songs were the heart of Canada. R.I.P.”
Variety reports CBS has canceled S.W.A.T. after seven seasons. The remake of the 1970s police drama starred Shemar Moore as Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson, a S.W.A.T. sergeant tasked to run a specialized tactical unit that is the last stop in law enforcement in Los Angeles. Rochelle Aytes, Jay Harrington, Kenny Johnson, David Lim and Alex Russell. The show’s current sixth season winds up on May 19 with an episode titled “Legacy”…
Call Me Kat has been canceled at Fox after three seasons, according to Deadline. The series, which followed Mayim Bialik as the titular character — an eccentric woman who quits her stable job as a math professor to open a cat café — was a victim of sagging ratings. Call Me Kat also starred Swoosie Kurtz, Cheyenne Jackson, Kyla Pratt, Julian Gant and the late Leslie Jordan, who died in October…
Bill Saluga, the comedian best known for his trademark phrase, “You can call me Ray,” died March 28 in hospice care in Los Angeles, his friend Bill Minkin told The Hollywood Reporter. He was 85. Saluga was also a member of the improvisational comedy group the Ace Trucking Company, alongside Fred Willard. They found success in the 1960s and ’70s. They opened for Tom Jones in Las Vegas and performed on the singer’s 1971 ABC variety show. Saluga’s other TV credits include Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Mad About You, Blossom, Home Improvement and Murphy Brown…
