You’ll never say you didn’t hear them coming: tap shoes, where plates are added to the soles allowing the wearer to make music with each step. They’re the required equipment for the syncopated beats and rhythms of tap, which has been dubbed America’s dance. The development of the click-clacking, feet-as-instruments art form traces its roots…
Ye. Photo: Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images On April 3, Kanye West, a.k.a. Ye, performed a concert in Los Angeles at SoFi Stadium and brought out celebrity supporters including Travis Scott and Lauryn Hill, along with his daughter North West. The sold-out show was a monument to the continued popularity of the controversial Ye. But…
With Gustavo Dudamel’s final season as music and artistic director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic reaching its homestretch, the orchestra has announced the appointment of its latest not music director. Anna Handler, a former Dudamel fellow and rapidly rising young conductor, will be given the new title of conductor-in-residence for the next three seasons. She…
Photo: Paras Griffin/Getty Images Offset was shot near the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, a spokesperson for the rapper confirmed on April 6. “We can confirm Offset was shot and is currently at the hospital receiving medical care. He is stable and being closely monitored,” the statement read. There’s no word…
LONDON — On a gray afternoon in the days before Easter, a dozen or so schoolchildren straggled into a side building at Rochester Cathedral and began their transformation. Off went the jackets and backpacks, on came burgundy cassocks and white surplices. Then they trooped into the cathedral, opened their mouths and sang as one. The…
And yet the value of a novel isn’t only in its prose. On Amazon, “Shy Girl” has a rating of four out of five stars, based on input from hundreds of reviewers. Many of them praise its premise and ideas—features of the book that it seems reasonable to think were shaped by human decision-making. (One…
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Bruce Hornsby’s new, reflective album starts off sweetly and melodically, a musician looking back at a fascinating life. Then it gets weird. That’s by design. “I’m going along very nicely and then I might just throw something at you,” the three-time Grammy Award-winner warns from his home in…
Pooh Shiesty and Gucci Mane in 2020. Photo: Paras Griffin/Getty Images Rapper Gucci Mane has reportedly been robbed and kidnapped by his former collaborators Pooh Shiesty, Big30, and seven others on January 10, the Department of Justice reports. According to a press conference, Pooh Shiesty, whose legal name is Lontrell Williams Jr., allegedly asked to meet…
The enemy of my enemy is also my enemy. Photo-Illustration: Mark Mainz/Getty Images;Robin Marchant/Getty Images for Vulture Courtney Love and Billy Corgan have been friends, enemies, lovers, and everything in between. But throughout their tumultuous relationship, they’ve always been able to agree on one thing: hating Kim Gordon. Love guested on Corgan’s podcast, The Magnificent…
Photo: Paul Natkin/Getty Images For a band that once advised its listeners to love, touch, and squeeze each other, Journey has endured some ridiculous drama over the past few years, insofar that two of its founding members, Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain, are sharing the stage every night on their current farewell tour despite having…
