Best Songs of the Week: Beyoncé, Bon Iver, and Sturgill Simpson

Maybe you thought Coldplay was great at the Super Bowl. Maybe you thought it was the Bruno Mars show.Maybe you know it was the Beyonce show. Wherever you stand, here are the best songs that dropped while you were too busy debating. Beyonce, Formation Where were you when Formation dropped? People were positive, negative, racist, inflammatory, infuriating, and inspired. The Atlanta MC cuts through the haze, and the Atlanta MC sounds at his clearest....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 94 words · Tiffany Carter

Best Songs of the Week: James Blake, FKA twigs, Kanye West

Perhaps with less room for debate? These awesome tunes below. Check out the best songs of this week. Credit: Jeff Vespa/WireImage; Getty Images (2) His wife, Morgane, contributed to the collection with her delicate, smokey voice. Fortunately, the Englishman shared a new jam during his BBC Radio 1 residency last week. Will Robinson Kanye West, Waves (feat. Whats most remarkable is Brown, pitching in a minimalistic, beautiful hook. (TLoPis streaming onWests website, via Tidal....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 98 words · Whitney Patel

Best Songs of the Week: Parquet Courts, Gold Panda, and Craig Finn with Titus Andronicus

Both are, ultimate, irresistible. Bourelly will have you clapping along as she calls out the haters on her latest release. Atmospheric organs and molten guitars provide a swirling instrumental that underscores singer Jeremy Earls unmistakable falsetto. Credit: Joseph Okpako/WireImage; Annabel Staff/Redferns; Britta Pedersen/AP The tracks ominous tinge lends additional heft to make it one of the genres better releases this year. The two previously collaborated on Till The Stars Burn Out!...

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 106 words · Ronald Martin

Best Songs of the Week: the Kills, Ray LaMontagne, Miguel, and more

From Day Wave to Big Gigantic, here’s what EW music staffers are listening to this week. The Kills music has always been one-part kerosene, one-part sexual tension and their latest is no exception. he asks in a flourish of existential dread. Credit: John Shearer/WireImage; Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic; Neilson Barnard/Getty Images Ive got all I need and it is killing me and you. Bonus points for this heady inspirational quote: Anything you want your life to mean, it can mean....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 148 words · Ronald Henry

Best-selling books of 2016: Here's what has dominated the list so far

Two different print editions of ‘Me Before You’ made the list. Coloring books were big: Johanna Basfords popularLost Oceancame in at No. 14, and there were twoHarry Pottercoloring books (Harry Potter Coloring Bookat No. 6 andHarry Potter Magical Creaturesat No. 3, while the edition with the movie tie-in cover came in at No. Its worth noting that the ebook holds the No. 2 spot on Nielsen BookScans separate list of the best-selling Kindle books of 2016 so far....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 116 words · Gloria May

BET Awards 2016: Dave Chappelle honors Prince

Dave Chappelle was the first person to honor Prince during the 2016 BET Awards. April 21, 2016 a very difficult morning for many of us. If it was the Eye of London, if it was the Eiffel Tower. Credit: Kevin Winter/BET/Getty Images The bridge in Minneapolis. Everyone felt the loss that we all feel tonight. Chappelle then touched on his personal connection to Prince while growing up. I was 11 years old whenPurple Raincame out, Chappelle recalled....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 104 words · Ariana Graham

BET Awards 2016: Red Carpet Arrivals

BET Awards: Red Carpet Arrivals The stars were out on Sunday night in Los Angeles for the BET Awards. The ceremony, which was expected to include tributes to Prince and Muhammad Ali (and possibly a surprise appearance by Beyonce), honors the best in movies, music and television. Ahead, check out the red carpet arrivals for the awards show (above: Gabrielle Union, Tracee Ellis Ross and, Janelle Monae). Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images; Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP; Frederick M....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 405 words · Tina Fox

BET Awards: Jesse Williams accepts Humanitarian Award

We can and will do better for you. Speaking to a standing ovation from the crowd, Williams also referenced Sandra Bland and Eric Garner. But freedom is somehow always conditional here. Credit: Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images Youre free, they keep telling us. But she wouldve been alive if she hadnt acted so free.' He added: Freedom is always coming in the hereafter. But, you know what, the hereafter is a hustle....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 96 words · Linda Mendez

BET Awards: Tracee Ellis Ross and Anthony Anderson to host

The news means Ross and Anderson are the first two-time hosts after their debut last year. We come alive in front of people and in front of each other. The relationship between the two of us, magic just starts to happen. Credit: JEAN BAPTISTE LACROIX/AFP/Getty Images I feel like were an old comedy duo, like somehow were great apart but were great together too. I get to do the craziest of things....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 216 words · Denise Ruiz

BET responds to Stacey Dash's plea to 'get rid of channels like BET'

I think its ludicrous because we have to make up our minds,she told co-host Steve Doocy. If it were the other way around, wed be up in arms. Its a double standard. Credit: Amanda Edwards/WireImage Dash added that there shouldnt be a Black History Month. Were Americans, period. Not surprisingly, BET did not take too kindly to these words. #Remember #YouWereOnTheGame #AndWeDontMeanTheRapper, it reads. BET also tweeted a gallery titled Every Time Stacey Dash Proved She Was Clueless, criticizing the actresss views....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 111 words · Elizabeth Fitzpatrick

Bethenny Frankel to host SiriusXM radio show

I couldnt just go rogue on my talk show, she says. Its just going rogue, is what [the radio show] is, and I love that. Its a zero-fs nation. Credit: D Dipasupil/Getty Images Everything in life is timing, she tells EW. Now the timing is really right. After the current season ofRHONYstopped shooting, Frankel reached out to Cohen. I just said, Alright, put me in, Coach. Im ready to go....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 185 words · Richard Graham

Bette Midler apologizes for offensive Caitlyn Jenner tweet

Bette Midler is in hot water after mocking Caitlyn Jenner. (Jenner came out as trans last year.) Sorry last tweet offended, she wrote, calling the remark an idle musing. Credit: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images; Kevin Winter/Getty Images Will Kris take him back? Do I smell a re-wedding?! This isnt the first time Midler has used her Twitter platform to mock the Kardashian-Jenner family. Back in March, the singer and actresscriticized Kim Kardashianfor posting a nude photo online....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 96 words · Mark Ortiz

Better Call Saul boss Peter Gould envisions Game of Thrones crossover

(AndSaulhas judiciously taken advantage of thathereandthere.) But which series outside of the Albuquerque-verse would the producers most want to marry worlds with? Might be kind of scary, actually. Credit: Ursula Coyote/AMC; Macall B. Polay/HBO I think Mike would do very, very well onGame of Thrones. Gould then imagined how a certain Lannister fromThroneswould kill it in the desert. Peter Dinklages character would be a very natural addition toBetter Call Saul, he says....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 119 words · Jessica King