When Tyler, the Creator made a brief cameo in the music video for Kendrick Lamar and Baby Keem’s latest collaboration, “The Hillbillies,” it felt like a tease of something to come. Indeed, this weekend the three returned to Dodger Stadium, where footage for their video was shot, for the Camp …
Read More »Yet Another Judge Has Slapped a Gag Order on Trump
Donald Trump has officially been barred from making public statements that attacking prosecutors, witnesses, and court staff over the course of his federal 2020 election interference trial. On Monday morning, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan partially granted a request from the Justice Department to restrict Trump’s ability to target individuals …
Read More »How Katie Alice Greer Started Over and Rebuilt Her Sound
In the middle of the pandemic, in a little room in Los Angeles, Katie Alice Greer was thinking about Bruce Springsteen. Not the anthemic striver of “Badlands” or the boardwalk poet of “4th of July, Asbury Park”; the Bruce on her mind was the one from Nebraska, the bleak solo …
Read More »8 Things We Learned From Tuesday's Bombshell-Packed Jan. 6 Hearing
The Jan. 6 committee set high expectations when it announced on Monday that it would be holding an emergency hearing on Tuesday, citing “recently obtained evidence.” The hearing did not disappoint, with Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, over the course of just under …
Read More »The Supreme Court Just Overturned Roe v. Wade. How The Fuck Did We Get Here?
To anyone with a normal, passing familiarity with the Supreme Court, the news earlier this year that a majority of justices were poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that held that a woman’s right to get an abortion was protected by the constitution, probably came as a …
Read More »Brett Tuggle, Fleetwood Mac and David Lee Roth Band Keyboardist, Dead at 70
Brett Tuggle, a journeyman keyboardist who logged two decades in Fleetwood Mac during their reunion era and also served as a founding member of the David Lee Roth Band in the Eighties, died June 19 from complications related to cancer. He was 70. Tuggle’s son Matt confirmed his death toRolling …
Read More »Florence + The Machine's 'Girls Against God' Is a Gorgeous Pandemic-Era Anthem
Florence + the Machine’s excellent new album Dance Feveris Florence Welch’s attempt to describe her pandemic experience. What the bewitching bandleader learned about herself, more than anything, is that she lives to be on stage, moving and howling for thousands of fans. The album finds comfort in that fact, filled …
Read More »The Linda Lindas, Members of Bikini Kill Get a Backyard Mosh Pit Going in 'Lost in Thought' Video
The Linda Lindas link up with Bikini Kill’s Erica Dawn Lyle, Kathi Wilcox, and musician/filmmaker Vice Cooler, in the video for their new collaboration, “Lost In Thought.” The song appears on Lyle and Cooler’s new benefit album, Land Trust: Benefit for North East Farmers of Color, out today, June 3, …
Read More »Will Butler Returns With First Singles Since Arcade Fire Exit, Plots East Coast Tour
While Will Butler didn’t announce his split from Arcade Fire until March — shortly after the release of the band’s sixth studio album WE — his tenure with the indie rock ensemble had actually ended when the project was complete. Now, Butler has returned with “A Stranger’s House” and “Nearer …
Read More »'Fuck, This Is the Real Thing': Chris Blackwell Remembers Making Bob Marley's 'Catch a Fire'
In his new memoir, “Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond,” Chris Blackwell looks back on an unmatched career in the music business. Written with Paul Morley, the book recounts Blackwell’s boyhood growing up between Jamaica and London, crossing paths with the likes of Ian Fleming, Noel Coward, and Errol …
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