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The BottleRock Napa Valley music festival is on track to return Labor Day weekend at the Napa Valley Expo, organizers say — a date that brings a new slate of…
Mick LaSalle May 9, 2021Updated: May 10, 2021, 9:21 am Elon Musk gives his monologue as “Saturday Night Live” host. Photo: Will Heath, NBCU Photo Bank Palo Alto billionaire Elon Musk hosted “Saturday Night Live” and showed himself to be game and good-humored — but uncomfortable in his own skin. But everyone knew going in that Musk was no performer, and he actually did get better as he went along. He did himself no harm and probably made a few fans on Saturday, May 8, so score him an A for effort and a C for delivery. During the show’s opening monologue, the Tesla CEO ...
Print The title of HBO Max’s new comedy sketch series, “That Damn Michael Che,” implies that we should already have an idea of what we’re about to receive: on-brand humor from “Saturday Night Live’s” co-head writer and “Weekend Update” co-anchor, marking an expansion of his trademark material into series streaming. But what, exactly, is Che’s comedy all about? It’s hard to glean from his recent run on the flagging “SNL,” which Che has called home in multiple capacities, including guest writer and staff writer, since 2013. Eight years later, even he appears bored by...
Morgan Wallen Back on One Country Station, as Hometown Outlet Sides With Fans Over Industry 'Censorship' Chris Willman, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail In what could be a sign of a break in country radio’s unified front, the currently forbidden superstar Morgan Wallen is back on the airwaves on at least one station that had put him on hold, WMYL-FM in Knoxville. The station may have more reason than most to return him to its playlist — Knoxville is Wallen’s hometown — but it does raise the question of how long the country radio industry will continue to speak with one voice in keepi...
Skip to main content Currently Reading In Exile, Morgan Wallen Tops Album Chart for a Fourth Week, With Real Impact of Scandal Yet to Be Seen Chris Willman, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail It may have been a disastrous week for Morgan Wallen in most ways, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at the album chart, where country’s newest superstar — and, for now, its most famous pariah — remains at No. 1 for a fourth consecutive week. Wallen’s “Dangerous: The Double Album” remained on top of the Rolling Stone album chart with numbers that were both up and down. In the overall p...