At the end of last week, I got the sort of text we’re all dreading right now: The parent of a kid in my son’s carpool had tested positive for COVID-19. After privately freaking out, I emailed the family asking if they would please let us know the test results …
Read More »Drive-By Truckers' Patterson Hood on How He's Being Creative During Quarantine
The Drive-By Truckers were planning on spending March on the road in support of their new album, The Unraveling. Instead, band members have been at home with their families, riding out the coronavirus pandemic, and eager to resume touring later this year. Here, in his own words, is how the …
Read More »Jack Osbourne's L.A. House Is Full of Ghosts
They say you shouldn’t bring your work home with you, but for Jack Osbourne, it seems like he has little choice in the matter. “In the last six months, I’ve been having a lot of scary, strange things happening in my house,” he tells Rolling Stone of his Los Angeles …
Read More »Lizzo, Shawn Mendes, and More Pledge to 'Press Pause' on Music Gatherings
Ricky Reed, a producer behind four songs on Lizzo’s Grammy-winning Cuz I Love You album — six, if you’re looking at the deluxe version, which includes megahit “Truth Hurts” — is imploring musicians, songwriters, producers, artists, and executives to press pause on songwriting sessions, meetings and shows. And “no going …
Read More »Katie Pruitt Has Reason to Believe
Singer-songwriter Katie Pruitt looks like a saint on the cover of her debut album, Expectations. Framed by a cathedral window, she gazes skyward, surrounded by flowers. But instead of a halo, it’s a bright rainbow above her head. “I always thought that churches are all very beautiful, and if I …
Read More »Lil Uzi Vert Just Dropped Another Album
Lil Uzi Vert released his long-awaited sophomore album,Eternal Atake, last Friday. It quickly became the most popular album in the country, competing with the first-week numbers of artists like BTS and Justin Bieber. What’s more, it was the dynamic young rapper’s best work to date, a blisteringly charming and musically …
Read More »Flashback: The Beatles Cover 'I Shall Be Released' at 'Let It Be' Sessions
The Beatles camp is commemorating the 50th anniversary of Let It Be this year with the release of the movie The Beatles: Get Back on September 4th. Directed by Peter Jackson, the documentary is packed with unseen footage from the contentious recording sessions for Let It Be that culminated with …
Read More »'The Hunt' Review: Red vs. Blue, Predators vs. Prey in Twitter's America
A riff on The Most Dangerous Game‘s well-worn premise, the Blumhouse blockbuster-to-be The Hunt was supposed to be just another project coming off a prolific production company’s assembly line, a tweaked take on class warfare that was part tongue-in-cheek transgressiveness and part tongue-ripped-from-mouth shock treatment. Then word got out that …
Read More »Billie Eilish Addresses Body Shaming in Concert Interlude
Billie Eilish kicked off the North American leg of her Where Do We Go? World Touron Monday night at the American Airlines Arena in Miami. Prior to performing “All the Good Girls Go to Hell,” the 18-year-old singer appeared in a video interlude in which she addressed her experiences with …
Read More »Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings Announce First U.S. Tour Together in a Decade
Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings will celebrate the music of the Guess Who, Bachman-Turner Overdrive and more on their first United States tour together in 10 years. The Together Again, Live in Concert trek will kick off June 13th at the Rose Music Center at the Heights in Huber Heights, …
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