In her hilarious-turned-powerful Emmys acceptance speech Sunday night, Alex Borstein shared the inspiring story of her grandmother who survived the Holocaust, telling the audience, “Step out of line, ladies.” For her role as Susie Myerson in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Borstein nabbed the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. On stage, the actress first dedicated her win “to the strength of a woman, to [creator] Amy Sherman-Palladino, to every woman on the Maisel cast and crew.
It’s time for the biggest award show of the year! Not really, of course. The MTV Movie Awards isn’t so much a legitimate award show as it is a way for stars to plug their big summer movies by trying to make a “viral” moment happen without any backlash. But, any award show that wants to give Channing Tatum a Trailblazer award can’t be all bad. Fingers crossed the inevitable look-back montage includes a little She’s The Man.
MTV abandoned its scheduled programming on Thursday to honor Prince, who died Thursday in Chanhassen, Minnesota at the age of 57. The network, which originally planned to fill the afternoon with a block of Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory, instead chose to pay tribute to the late Grammy winner by airing his music videos. “MTV is heartbroken and in utter disbelief at the news that the world has lost Prince Rogers Nelson so suddenly and so before his time,” reads a statement from the network.
Millions watched Mumford & Sons join Bob Dylan at the 2011 Grammys to play ”Maggie’s Farm,” which is somewhat ironic. Wasn’t that song supposed to be Dylan’s screed against the folk scene? Now the Sons are leading a folk revival that includes the Lumineers, Milo Greene, and Of Monsters and Men — a whole new generation of bands who dress like There Will Be Blood extras and treat folk-rock with such devotion you’d think it was an old-time religion.
Most of the time, Lollapalooza’s scheduling seems left to the whims of fate, the daily lineup strung together seemingly at random so that indie poppers bump up against metal acts and soul throwbacks open for folky singer-songwriters. It makes for some wildly jarring juxtapositions, with occasional stumbles into transcendence. Saturday was different, at least at the south end of Chicago’s Grant Park. The ascendance of headliners Mumford & Sons rippled all the way into the afternoon, where banjo-friendly arrangements and country twang informed the bulk of the performances: Court Yard Hounds brought their pop-friendly version of crossover bluegrass, Eric Church stomped through a set of outlaw Southern rock, and twee Irish strummers Little Green Cars crafted colorful tapestries out of all manner of acoustic thread.
As COVID-19 continues to spread (get well soon, Tom Hanks!), a growing number of musicians have been forced to cancel or postpone their tour dates out of concern over the pandemic. As artists tend to make most of their money from touring, now would be an opportune time to support your favorite acts — particularly indie artists — by purchasing some merch, as others have pointed out on social. "Cancelled festivals and shows bc of Coronavirus will be big financial losses for indie artists this year,"
Warning: This article contains spoilers from The Masked Singer season 9 premiere. The Masked Singer kicked off its ninth season on Wednesday night — and it did not disappoint. Following the same format as last season, in which all but one contestant goes home each night, this episode introduced us to the first three costumes of the jam-packed season: Mustang, Gnome, and Medusa. Mustang and Medusa went with songs that showed off their powerful vocals — "
My Big Fat Greek Wedding, then and now John Corbett and Nia Vardalos in 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding'. Everett Collection In 2002, a sweet film about a lonely woman and her zany Greek family became the sleeper hit of the year. Since then, there has been a sequel, a short-lived TV series, an upcoming third film, and dozens of projects for the My Big Fat Greek Wedding cast.
Nearly a million Brits trekked out to festivals this past week, as some of the world’s biggest bands landed on legendary multi-artist shows like Reading, Leeds and the decade-old traveling tour, V Festival. But in between sets by crowd favorites like Foo Fighters, Nine Inch Nails, Arcade Fire, Smashing Pumpkins, Fall Out Boy, Kanye West and Razorlight, the big buzz backstage centered around a band that was nowhere to be found on the bill, and hasn’t played together in almost 20 years: legendary British noise-rockers My Bloody Valentine (pictured, circa 1991).
Can a book shape the course of your life? In a thoroughly engaging mix of memoir and biography, New Yorker scribe Rebecca Mead explores how her relationship with Middlemarch, George Eliot’s classic tale of 19th-century English country life, has evolved over time. Described by Virginia Woolf as ”one of the few English novels written for grown-up people,” Middlemarch struck a deep emotional chord in Mead, first when she was a bookish teen in England aching to leave home, and then again at points throughout her life — as she attended college, moved to the U.