Fun fact: Late-night talk-show bandleaders have won Oscars the last two consecutive years. Last year, Colbert bandleader, along with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, won Best Original Score for Soul. This past Sunday, the Roots drummer Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, longtime bandleader for Jimmy Fallon, won Best Documentary for hi...

We’re, what, 36 hours out from the moment that Will Smith smacked Chris Rock live onstage at the Oscars? Smith has apologized, Smith and Rock may or may not have talked things out, but the take cycle has not stopped. Everyone has to say something about it, and “everyone,” at least in this case, includes Strokes fron...

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