Adele was in the audience for the closing night of Raye’s U.S. tour this week at the Greek Theatre, which naturally led to all kinds of murmurings about torches being passed. One imagines Adele being the type to give up a torch only when it’s pried out of her cold, dead hands, but it’s safe […]
There’s something deeply counterintuitive about the idea that we would go to a pop concert — the most communal-seeming of all gathering places, outside of a football game or church — in order to stop cheering, forget about everyone around us and just go deep into someone’s personal headspace. That is the stuff of live […]
“Who’s Madeline?” is still the year’s preeminent pop-music question. But coming up close behind that: “Where the eff is Randy Newman on the New York Times’ list of the 30 greatest living American songwriters?” Or, you can fill in that blank with some other name of your chagrined choosing, like Tom Waits, Patti Smith, Billy […]
April began with the continuation of Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s promotional tour for their new romantic dramedy “The Drama.” The two stopped by “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” ahead of a special New York City screening of the film set for the following evening. On the west coast, “Love Story” star Dree Hemingway (she […]
The media has done a good job of talking about what’s not in “Michael.” I refer, of course, to the accusations of child sexual abuse that dogged Michael Jackson from 1993 until the day he died (and, of course, they didn’t stop then). The media has done a far less good job of talking about […]
Madonna made an epic surprise appearance Saturday night at West Hollywood LGBTQ bar and nightclub The Abbey. The invite-only event was billed as “Club Confessions Los Angeles” with DJs Stuart Price (producer of both of Madonna’s “Confessions” albums), Romy and Mez Monty. The festivities also served as a birthday party for The Abbey’s owner Tristan […]
Why is it that nearly every fictional movie that is about music, or set in a musical milieu, has to feel as phony as a $2 resale ticket? Biopics like “Michael,” “Back to Black” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” are their own unbelievable animals. But I’m talking about the wave of promising-sounding, mostly cringe-inducing dramas like “Mother […]
Where in the “Michael” world is Janet Jackson? The music superstar is nowhere to be seen as a character in the new Antoine Fuqua-directed biopic about her late brother. “I wish everybody was in the movie,” Jackson sibling LaToya Jackson told me Monday night at the film’s premiere at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. “She […]
April began with the continuation of Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s promotional tour for their new romantic dramedy “The Drama.” The two stopped by “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” ahead of a special New York City screening of the film set for the following evening. On the west coast, “Love Story” star Dree Hemingway (she […]
Madonna’s most die-hard fans are hopeful that the Material Girl will tour again. The anticipation has been intensifying following the announcement of her new album “Confessions on a Dance Floor: Part II” and her surprise performance with Sabrina Carpenter at Coachella on Friday night. “I’m not sure yet,” Madonna’s longtime manager Guy Oseary said Saturday […]