Javiera Mena‘s queer chileno disco is timeless — and so is her glossy new single, “Flashback.” It’s the singer-songwriter’s first solo outing since the release of her previous album, Espejo, which was named one of Rolling Stone‘s Best Latin Albums of 2018. In the Hugo Rubiano-directed clip, Mena plays a …
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Todd Rundgren and an all-star crew are re-recording his 1973 anthem “Just One Victory” and giving it away for free to Democrats all over America running for public office this year. It’s still early in the process, but Joe Walsh, Daryl Hall, and Paul Shaffer have already pledged to join …
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Margo Price and her husband Jeremy Ivey perform a three-song acoustic set from their home loft for NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series, which has been newly rebranded as Tiny Desk (Home) Concert in the wake of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that has forced musicians nationwide to cancel all live appearances. …
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Boy bands have always known their way around a good double entendre (see Backstreet Boys’ “Get Down” or O-Town’s “Liquid Dreams”) but when ‘NSync released their sophomore album, No Strings Attached,in March of 2000, one song stood out for seemingly bucking the subtlety trend. Tucked away in the middle of …
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As thousands of colleges across the country have shut their doors and transitioned to online learning thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, at least one college plans to resume operation: Liberty University, the private evangelical university founded by Jerry Falwell in Lynchburg, Virginia. According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Jerry Falwell, Jr. …
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James Blake played a solo rendition of Radiohead‘s “No Surprises” on Monday, tackling the OK Computer anthem during a livestreamed Instagram performance. The singer-songwriter — a noted Radiohead fan who previously covered In Rainbows‘ “Videotape” onstage — magnified the song’s melancholy core with his stripped-down take. Over rich piano chords, …
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Raja Kumari was not born in New Delhi or Mumbai or Kolkata — rather, 8,000 miles away, in Claremont, California. But Kumari and her record label have a huge ambition this year: to smash down doors for Indian rappers all over the world. Kumari, whose parents emigrated from India to …
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President Trump and his Sharpie struck again Thursday, this time at the now-daily task-force press conference inside the White House. But this time, rather than attempting to redefine the projected path of a hurricane, he clearly wanted to redirect a national conversation. A Washington Post photographer discovered that in at …
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Common delivered a set as part of Global Citizen and the World Health Organization’s ongoing ‘Together at Home’ concert series from his living room on Thursday. “This ‘Together at Home’ thing I got really excited about because, you know for me, when a lot is going on, in the world …
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Using South Carolina as a springboard, Joe Biden has won resounding victories across three weeks of primary contests that have put him on track to win the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Bernie Sanders, lagging far behind in delegates, is not done just yet. He’s a hit with voters under 50, …
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