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Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Fast-rising pop singer-songwriter Chappell Roan made a memorable appearance on “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon” Thursday, wearing a wild feathered black outfit for her chat with the host before donning a completely different feather-bedecked dress to perform her latest single, “Good Luck, Babe!” Her performance of the song was vivid, as she showed off her formidable vocal range on the final “I told you so!” segment of the song from a surreal garden-like setting, which begin and ended with her singing while seated on a throne shaped like a white swan. The interview — her first on late-night TV — was lively from the start.

The White House in the past week has railed against so-called “cheap fakes,” videos edited to look as if President Joe Biden has “frozen” or was wandering away at major public events, while media outlets amplifying the moments have done little to add context.

President Joe Biden wasted little time making a biting comment about his opponent Donald Trump shortly after he took the stage at a star filled Los Angeles fundraiser.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham, called one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation, has posted a reply today to a New York Times opinion piece by Michelle Goldberg that ran Friday.

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Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music The Songwriters Hall of Fame, which staged its annual awards ceremony on Thursday night, is an institution and an event unlike any other in the music industry, even though many of its elements are hardly unique and many things about it have barely changed over decades, and possibly since it launched in 1969. Indeed, we say many of the same things about the ceremony in an article very similar to this one every year — it’s a combination of an awards show, a family reunion and a trade event that is invite-only yet features a mind-blowing array of Grammy-level, once-in-a-lifetime performances and tributes, always held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York’s Times Square.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music The four founding members of R.E.M. performed together publicly for the first time in nearly three decades at the Songwriters Hall of Fame Ceremony in New York on Thursday night, playing an acoustic version of their breakthrough song, 1987’s “Losing My Religion.” With characteristic understatement, the group — singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry — showed their respect for the honor and the institution, their friendship and decades-long bond, and in gracious terms, fans, family, friends, and everyone who helped them along the way.

What was supposed to be a romantic getaway for a Texas couple unfortunately turned into a deadly nightmare… and in a jacuzzi of all places.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music If there was one place to be in New York on Tuesday night, it was Charli XCX’s show at Brooklyn’s newly reopened and spectacularly renovated 1920s-era Paramount Theater. Matty Healy and his girlfriend Gabriette Bechtel (who chose the occasion to apparently announce their engagement) were in the house, as were Lorde, Julia Fox, Lily Allen and probably other luminaries.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Any New Yorkers who missed Chappell Roan’s iconic performance at Governors Ball last weekend will get another chance in September, when the inaugural New York edition of the All Things Go festival takes place at Forest Hills Stadium. Headliners are Roan, Reneé Rapp, Janelle Monáe, Muna, Ethel Cain, and Julien Baker.

John Swinney has said that he would "engage with" Donald Trump if he wins the US election and then comes to Scotland.

Joe Biden stood on a cliff at Normandy on Friday to deliver a speech that emphasized the need to defend democracy, as he connected the heroism of D-Day 80 years ago to the present day.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Tom Verlaine — the guitar virtuoso, cofounder and “frontman” of the pioneering New York group Television, who died last year — might be the most low-key guitar hero in rock history. If he had only ever released “Marquee Moon,” Television’s galvanizing 1977 debut album, his place in history still would be assured: The album, which brought the sounds of late-period Velvet Underground and the early Rolling Stones into a musical era filled with bloated solos and every imaginable excess, is one of the great guitar albums of all time.

Vice President Kamala Harris had some biting words about Donald Trump on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight, making it a point to comment on his recent New York felony conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records.

Joe Biden amped up his attacks on Donald Trump following his rival’s conviction on 34 felony charges last week, calling the former president “unhinged” and engaged in an “all-out assault” on the justice system.

Donald Trump is certainly still beloved after his criminal conviction.

The Duke of Sussex's controversial memoir Spare rocked the Royal Family with its many shocking claims - but it seems it could also land Prince Harry in hot water. After writing in the book that he had used cocaine, marijuana and magic mushrooms in the past, questions were asked about whether Harry had declared this previous recreational drug use on his visa application when he relocated to the US.The Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based think tank, is in the process of suing the US government for access to Prince Harry’s immigration records, stating that it is ‘a case about whether the government provides special treatment for high profile celebrities’. The foundation is referring to the paperwork the prince filed when he landed in the US on 14 March, 2020 as most people arriving in America must answer questions related to whether they have ever used recreational drugs.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music For a variety of reasons, one of the biggest stories in entertainment this year has been the precarious state of Jennifer Lopez’s “This Is Me… Now” tour, which was finally put out of its misery yesterday. The tour, announced in February, came as part of “This Is Me… Now,” a massive, self-celebrating, and honestly rather hubristic album/ tour/ two-film project essentially about herself and her romantic reunion with actor Ben Affleck.

All of the major cable news networks delivered second-by-second coverage of the verdicts as they announced today finding Donald Trump guilty of 34 (of 34) felony counts related to the falsification of records related to hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels.

Harvey Weinstein may face a new indictment on criminal sexual misconduct charges, Manhattan prosecutors told a judge today.