How ‘Saturday Night’s’ Intense Ticking Score Was Created By Tap Dancing, a Fiddle and Jon Batiste
Batiste is doing double duty in Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night,” he’s playing musician and band leader Billy Preston, and he ...
Rachel Bloom’s New Netflix Special Makes Great Comedy Out of Tragedy
You start off with this ribald, deliberately silly song, but you’re interrupted by what the audience thinks is a heckler, and ...
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Blake Pontchartrain: The first big Superdome show featured Bob Hope, Raquel Welch and more
An all-star lineup christened the Superdome for its first big show on Aug. 29, 1975. More than 40,000 people turned out to ...
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LISTEN: LAHNAH Fearlessly Blends Complex Melodies With Songwriting Prowess On “Raunchadelic”
Lahnah is a self-proclaimed “experimental butt rock” band from Philadelphia, PA. Focusing on absurdity and bombast, they craft mercurial and dense songs ...
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5 of Paul McCartney’s Best “Granny” Songs
We know Paul McCartney can do it all when it comes to songwriting and performing, but "Granny" songs? That was the derisive term used by John Lennon to describe McCartney's occasional fondness for ...
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How ‘Saturday Night’s’ Intense Ticking Score Was Created By Tap Dancing, a Fiddle and Jon Batiste
“I see ‘SNL’ as the pinnacle of variety, of vaudeville ... are the backdrop of New York in terms of the cultural milieu. It’s the type of ‘SNL’ house band sound.
The New Netflix Special From One of Our Most Brilliant Comedians Goes to a Very Dark Place
You start off with this ribald, deliberately silly song, but you’re interrupted by what the audience thinks is a heckler, and ...