Leave it to Chris Christie, the disgraced former New Jersey governor and ex-Donald Trump lapdog, to lower the boom on EPA administrator Scott Pruitt. Last weekend, after news broke that Pruitt had scored a sweetheart deal for a condo from a lobbyist pal in D.C., Christie predicted that it was …

Trisha Yearwood, the Grammy-winning hitmaker, cooking show host, author and wife of Country Music Hall of Famer Garth Brooks, adds radio host to her resume with today’s launch of a new weekly SiriusXM show, “Trisha’s Take Five.” Airing exclusively on the Garth Channel, SiriusXM’s satellite and streaming channel devoted to …

British singer-songwriter James Bay pilots his own DIY spaceship in the nostalgic “Pink Lemonade” video.Tapping into childhood frustration, Bay sneaks into his parents’ garage to flee Earth via a crudely coordinated space launch. “I was reminded of a time when I was a about four years old and I told …

Jack White‘s apartment transforms into a vibrant fever dream in the reality-bending “Over and Over and Over” video. The songwriter appears in several scenarios, playing electric guitar as his living room shifts to blue and white. Wrestlers, masked children, women wearing colorful garments and men in military fatigues appear in …

Brandi Carlile is headed back to Newport Folk Festival in 2018, becoming the latest artist to be added to a lineup that already includes Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, and Courtney Barnett. Carlile, who was added to the Rhode Island festival’s rolling announcements today, will be making …

Robert Grossman, the artist and illustrator whose musician portraits and madcap political caricatures featured on the cover and in the pages of Rolling Stone, died March 15th at the age of 78. His son, Alex Emanuel Grossman, confirmed his death to The New York Times. For Rolling Stone, Grossman created …

Blink-182 are headed to Las Vegas. The pop-punk trio have inked a deal with the Palms Casino Resort for a 16-date residency dubbed “Kings of the Weekend” that will begin May 26th and run on select weekends through November 17th. “When the Palms asked us to do a residency here …

A Florida man who claimed in a TV interview to have helped cremate Natalee Holloway’s remains back in 2010 was fatally stabbed with his own knife during an attempted kidnapping Wednesday. John Christopher Ludwick was stabbed in North Port, Florida, after trying to kidnap a woman as she was exiting …

Editor’s Note: On Thursday night,ProPublica retracted the portion of their storythat stated that Gina Haspel, Trump’s pick to head the CIA, was head of the black site in Thailand during the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah. According to the New York Times,she arrived in October 2002. Last year, ProPublica reporter Raymond …

There are few figures in country music as influential and perhaps as underappreciated in modern culture as Doug Sahm, who changed the climate of the genre when he fused psychedelic San Francisco rock and gritty soul into his breed of Texas music with his band, Sir Douglas Quintet. Now, as …