Ashley McBryde sings about bad habits and those vices that refuse to go away in “First Thing I Reach For,” the latest release from the singer-songwriter’s upcoming second album, Never Will. Anyone hoping to continue the thrilling revenge-redemption narrative in McBryde’s recent video trilogy will have to remain in suspense, …
Read More »Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington Battle Over Shameful Secret in 'Little Fires Everywhere' Trailer
Hulu has released the latest trailer forLittle Fires Everywhere, the streaming platform’s highly anticipated adaptation of Celeste Ng’s 2017 novel of the same name. The series stars Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. Witherspoon plays Elena, the matriarch of the wealthy Richardson family, who decides to rent out a room in …
Read More »Mark Lanegan Previews Memoir-Inspired LP With New Song 'Skeleton Key'
Less than a year after Mark Lanegan released his 2019 LP, Something’s Knocking, the singer-songwriter returns with a new album he was inspired to record while writing his upcoming memoir. Straight Songs of Sorrow arrives May 8th, just over a week after Lanegan’s memoir, Sing Backwards and Weep, hits shelves …
Read More »What Really Happened at Ohio University When Kaitlin Bennett Showed Up?
On Monday afternoon, Ohio University first-year Anya Bartek was in class when she found out that Kaitlin Bennett — a right-wing personality known as Kent State Gun Girl for posing with an AR-10 rifle at graduation — was set to appear at her school to ask students questions about Presidents’ …
Read More »Les Claypool on Primus' Rush Covers Tour: 'It's About Admiration for These Amazing Musicians'
Update, August 2021: Primus‘ rescheduled A Tribute to Kings tour kicks off in Boise, Idaho, on August 10th. On November 16th, 1978, Rush came through the Bay Area on their Hemispheres tour. In the audience at the band’s Cow Palace show that night was a young Les Claypool, and 40-some …
Read More »Watch Justin Bieber Perform 'Intentions' With Quavo on 'Fallon'
A night after teaching Jimmy Fallon how to play hockey, Justin Bieber returned to The Tonight Show Friday — the day of new album Changes‘ release — to perform the single “Intentions” alongside Quavo. The Tonight Show performance mirrored Bieber’s Saturday Night Live musical guest spot from earlier in the …
Read More »'That's When They Were on Fire': Inside the Who's 'Live at Leeds'
It was 50 years ago today that the Who walked into the University of Leeds Refectory in Leeds, England, and played what many rock fans consider to be the greatest concert of all time. At the very least, the album they recorded that night — Live at Leeds — is …
Read More »Why Hank Williams Won't Be Reinstated in the Grand Ole Opry
Ever since earning six encores at his Grand Ole Opry debut in 1949, Hank Williams has been synonymous with the country music institution. But Williams, who died at 29 in 1953, is not technically a member. In fact, he was unceremoniously fired from the Opry in 1952 after missing a …
Read More »Roger Waters: 'The U.S. Is Not a Fool's Paradise, It's a Fool's Hell'
Roger Waters would like to see a new resistance movement sweep America. At a Q&A after a screening of his concert film, Us + Them, in New York on Tuesday night, the artist compared the way he saw younger people take to the themes of humanism in his concert abroad …
Read More »One Man Believes Tupac Is Alive in New Mexico — And Plans to Make a Movie About It
Perhaps one of the greatest conspiracy theories in music history is that Tupac Shakur is still alive. There’s a stubborn contingent of people who refuse to believe that Shakur died from the four gunshot wounds he sustained on September 7th, 1996, in Las Vegas. Tupac’s bodyguard has shared that he …
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