Geoff Edgers

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://bancodeprofissionais.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

He was the king of late night, but David Letterman doesn’t miss it ‘for a second’

June 2, 2018 at 1:52 a.m.

Sometimes, OK, all the time, David Letterman, who used to host his very own television program, is asked whether he still wishes he were on TV. Back then, he could...

The slow, secret death of the electric guitar — and why you should care

June 3, 2018 at 6:29 p.m.

The convention couldn't sound less rock 'n' roll - the National Association of Music Merchants Show. But when the doors open at the Anaheim Convention Center, people stream in to...

After John, Paul McCartney found another partner to get the most out of him: Elvis

June 5, 2018 at 7:00 p.m.

The 1980s had not been going well for Paul McCartney. A series of commercial flops left even the artist taking stock. "It was time to prove something to myself," McCartney...

James Taylor and Carly together again and who should really play the Kennedy Center Honors

December 17, 2018 at 11:26 p.m.

Obviously, we have no influence over who serenades the Kennedy Center Honorees Sunday night. If we did, we'd have already devoted the entire production budget to Aretha, a baby grand...

Bill Murray’s greatest role? Being Bill Murray

June 9, 2018 at 2:38 p.m.

Let's start with one of those crazy Bill Murray stories. A couple years ago, a guy named Ted Melfi had a movie idea and desperately wanted Murray to star. Except...

Bill Murray laughs during the second round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in California on Feb. 09, 2007.

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May 24, 2019 at 1:09 a.m.

Let's start with one of those crazy Bill Murray stories. A couple years ago, a guy named Ted Melfi had a movie idea and desperately wanted Murray to star. Except...

Actor and comedian Rob Schneider waves after throwing out the first pitch before a Cubs-Cardinals game at Wrigley Field on Sept. 21, 2012, 2012.

I tried to reach Bill Murray for weeks – here’s what happens when he finally calls me back

June 9, 2018 at 3:00 p.m.

At 12:39 p.m. ET Wednesday, a couple hours after my giant story about Bill Murray not calling me is published, the phone rings. It's Bill Murray. He is in New...

The soon-to-be-opened Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture is seen September 1, 2016 in Washingotn, DC.

No Martin Luther King artifacts will be at new African-American museum. Here’s why.

August 22, 2019 at 1:04 a.m.

Martin Luther King's children called the museum with an intriguing invitation. They had something they knew the National Museum of African American History and Culture wanted. So in January, curator...

Will somebody please give Norm Macdonald another TV show?

June 10, 2018 at 10:53 a.m.

Norm Macdonald has just unwrapped his first Klondike bar when he mentions the Chris Rock show. Turns out he has a chance to appear at a surprise gig at the...

Bill Simmons’s new site, The Ringer, goes live — and please, don’t call it just another Grantland

June 12, 2018 at 3:17 a.m.

Grantland. The editor tries not to even utter its name. The football writer, eager to embrace his new gig at Sports Illustrated, admits he feels like a guy who can't...

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