On Nov. 21, 2021, Jon Batiste found out that he had been nominated for 11 Grammys, ranging from Best Contemporary Classical Composition to Best Improvised Jazz Solo; his most recent work, the roots-to-R&B melting pot We Are, was up for the Best Album of the Year award. He was six …
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It was supposed to be a big year for Dave Grohl and the rest of Foo Fighters. The band had charted out an international celebration tour for their 25th anniversary, printing T-shirts, stuffing the trucks with equipment, and even sponsoring a limited-edition Coors Lite tallboy. But then, as Grohl told …
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On the heels of celebrating 10 years of their debut Crazy for You, Best Coast‘s Bethany Cosentino hit The Late Show with Stephen ColbertThursday to perform “Rollercoaster,” off of the band’s new album Always Tomorrow. Due to the pandemic, Cosentino performed the track at home, accompanied only by her electric …
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The Lumineers previewed their upcoming album III with a performance of new single “Gloria” on The Late Show. The Colorado rock band transformed host Stephen Colbert’s stage with a vintage backdrop and wood paneling, projecting old home movie footage behind them. In the clip, the musicians give the folk-tinged track …
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Jim Acosta, CNN’s chief White House correspondent, talked on Wednesday’s Late Show about having to “fact-check” President Trump. The reporter detailed the history of Trump’s combative relationship with CNN, which began after Acosta asked the president during a January 11th, 2017 press conference about the explosive Steele Dossier –a line …
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Stephen Colbert tackled President Donald Trump’s latest troubling remark and his attempt to pull his critics’ security clearance on Tuesday’s Late Show. Colbert opened his monologue by repeating Trump’s quip: “Just remember, what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening …Oh good, I was worried because what …
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Method Man and Ghostface Killah lobbied for the return of Martin Shkreli’s one-copy-only Wu-Tang Clan album on Late Show, where the two rappers faced off against Jeff Sessions … or a Keebler elf cookie that looks like the Attorney General. “That album belongs to the people,” Method Man told the …
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Late-night hosts took aim atPresident Trump on Tuesday after his administration announced plans to rescind the Obama-era program DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), which protects nearly 800,000 young, undocumented immigrants who were brought into the United States illegally. There was plenty of comedic fodder for the late-night stable – …
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Arcade Fire performed a pair of Everything Now tracks and mocked consumerism during a visit to The Late Show Thursday. The performance was “sponsored” and preceded by an ad from the “Everything Now Corporation,” Arcade Fire‘s parody of an Amazon-like retailer that offers “everything now, the two most beautiful words …
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