Springsteen backs New Jersey gay marriage
AFP - 2 hours 15 minutes agoBruce Springsteen rocked the US gay marriage debate, urging legislators in his home state of New Jersey to back single-sex nuptials in a vote scheduled for Thursday.
1620 Stories, most recent news story added 2 hours 37 minutes ago
Bruce Springsteen rocked the US gay marriage debate, urging legislators in his home state of New Jersey to back single-sex nuptials in a vote scheduled for Thursday.
On the first season of Spectacle, we learned that Elvis Costello does indeed make a good talk-show host. Guests on his Sundance Channel series have included Elton John, Rufus Wainwright, Lou Reed, Bill Clinton and The Police.
Green Day were named the top artists of the decade in a Rolling Stone readers' poll, which also gave them the #1 album and single of the '00s.
Mel Brooks, Robert De Niro and Bruce Springsteen partied Washington, D.C.-style this weekend with President Barack Obama. And they didn't have to party-crash to do...
Last night I was thrown for a loop when I ran into a long-ago ex at a party that he had no business (that I could fathom) attending. I was not happy to see him. In fact, over the past 10 or so years, I've made it a point to avoid being anywhere he might be.
Fiction Plane Drummer Pete Wilhoit returns to roots at Bloomington Jazz Festival, Dec. 11-12 Reuniting with Indiana-based jazz combo 3rd Man for the event! Pete Wilhoit, drummer for international indie rock band FICTION PLANE (which is fronted by music icon Sting's eldest son Joe Sumner) is returning to his roots (and alma mater) as he is participating in the Bloomington Jazz Festival, which is ...
The music/talk show "Spectacle," whose second season premieres Wednesday at 10 on Sundance, has Elvis Costello talking and playing with guests from U2 and Bruce Springsteen and more.
All My Friends Are Funeral Singers is the new album from the experimental Chicago roots-rock band Califone . It's also the first feature film from writer-director Tim Rutili , Califone's frontman . The movie has been accepted to the Sundance Film Festival , which goes down in Park City, Utah January 21-31. This will serve as the film's official premiere. The band has been playing a live ...
In New York people can express anger in a frank and open way, Christmas or no Christmas , and surely this is a good thing.
The Flaming Lips have given us a lot this year-- a great record , an insanely over-the-top festival appearance , the NSFW music video to end all NSFW music videos . But they're not done. As of right now, you can pre-order the latest Flaming Lips offering: a Silver Trembling Fetus Christmas tree ornament . ( As previously reported , these guys are kind of obsessed with Christmas.) According to a ...
For years now, the world has been fiending for alt-rap icon Mos Def to take a break from acting in shitty movies and put his focus squarely back on music. In 2009, he's finally done it, dropping his best album in years and generally reminding the world that he's a fearsome rapper. Another reminder: The new video for " Supermagic " , the frantic opening track of The Ecstatic . Mos, decked out in ...
Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-LedgerAudience members react to testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee this evening at the Statehouse during a hearing on bill S1967/A2978.Both supporters and opponents of same-sex marriage say how the New Jersey legislature votes on the issue could...
Dave Brubeck, one of five entertainers celebrated by President Barack Obama on Sunday at the 32nd annual Kennedy Center Honors, isn't just a jazz legend: He also happens to be the great grand nephew of Mountain View pioneer Henry Rengstorff. by Daniel DeBolt
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) "Spectacle: Elvis Costello With..." 10 p.m. Wednesdays, Sundance Channel There is a moment in the Season 2 premiere of "Spectacle: Elvis Costello With..." where the camera catches a look on the faces of a few people in the audience who...
New Jersey Gov.-elect Chris Christie is taking a more low-key approach to his inauguration than some of his predecessors.
Eddie Vedder, Ben Harper, John Mellencamp, Sting, Melissa Etheridge and more paid tribute to Bruce Springsteen at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, DC on Sunday.