Phantogram released a poignant new single, “Someday,” as part of a mental health initiative. All proceeds from sales and streams of the track – and its B-side, an atmospheric cover of Sparklehorse ballad “Saturday” – will benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. “Someday I’ll find you; I’ll meet you, …
Read More »Hear Sons of Bill, Molly Parden's Ethereal New Song 'Easier'
Reaching far beyond their Americana roots, Sons of Bill brew up a lush, literate sound with this year’s Oh God Ma’am, a wide-ranging album that mixes honesty, hooks and headiness in equal measure. With electric guitars that chime and reverb-drenched harmonies that swoon, Oh God Ma’am nods to the atmospheric …
Read More »Snoop Dogg Remembers Tupac Bringing Madonna, Weed to 'SNL'
Tupac Shakur once brought a bagful of weed to Snoop Dogg backstage at Saturday Night Live. Snoop Dogg spoke about the meet-up – which also included Madonna, who dated Shakur during the Nineties – for the first time during an interview with Howard Stern on Tuesday. Snoop Dogg appeared as …
Read More »Guillermo del Toro Preps Netflix Horror Anthology Series
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is prepping a new Netflix horror anthology series, 10 After Midnight, which will find the horror-fantasy director writing and directing select episodes and hand-selecting “a team of the genre’s best writers and exciting new filmmakers” to craft additional installments. According to a statement about the show, …
Read More »Unpacking a Strange, Violent Connection Between Trump and Putin
Quick, name someone who Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin both know and venerate. Give up? Try Fedor Emelianenko, a 230-pound, Ukrainian-born MMA fighter, widely described as the best MMA scrapper of all time – and one of the scariest, battle-scarred combat veterans ever to have entered the octagon. Consider this …
Read More »'Always at the Carlyle' Review: From NYC Hotel to Sophisticated Hot Spot
We know what you’re thinking: Why see a movie about a posh Manhattan hotel that most of us could never afford to stay in even for one night? It’s not just the fascination of watching how the one-percent lives; it’s because this storied 88-year-old hotel, filled with impossibly glamorous ghosts …
Read More »How Donald Glover Charted His Own Path to Hip-Hop Stardom
“Is there room in the game for a lame who rhymes? Who wears short shorts and makes jokes sometimes?” These sorts of questions consumed Camp, the official debut album from Donald Glover‘s Childish Gambino project, when it came out in 2011. The record was intensely anxious and frequently biting, emphasizing …
Read More »Hear Jason Aldean, Miranda Lambert's New Song 'Drowns the Whiskey'
Jason Aldean has announced the new single from his latest album Rearview Town. “Drowns the Whiskey” follows the multi-week Number One “You Make It Easy” and features guest vocals from Miranda Lambert. The pair is captured in the recording studio in a new lyric video for the song that premiered …
Read More »Kent State, Jackson State Survivors Talk Student Activism
On the morning of May 4th, 1970, Dean Kahler, a student at Kent State University, called the professors of his morning classes to let them know he wouldn’t be there that day. He wanted to check out the protest, he told them, that was scheduled for noon at central campus. …
Read More »Music's New Chart Rules Care – a Lot – About Whether You're Paying to Listen
When is a stream not a stream? Billboard, which publishes the definitive album and song charts for the U.S. music industry, has had to ask itself that odd question in the last few months. After facing pressure and criticism from subscription music-streaming services, the trade publication announced last October that …
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