The first car Margo Price ever owned was a Nineties-something silver Saturn that she bought with money she saved from lifeguarding — and promptly wrecked in her parents’ driveway. Rushing home from her boyfriend’s to make midnight curfew, she put it in park and dashed inside. Or thought she did. …
Read More »Flashback: Mos Def and Talib Kweli Help Televise a Hip-Hop Revolution
For hip-hop fans, the significance of 1998 needs little explanation thanks to landmark works by Lauryn Hill, Outkast, Jay-Z, DMX, Big Pun, the Neptunes, the Cash Money and No Limit collectives, and more. But despite a geyser of creativity and a new era of gold-plated entrepreneurship, the year still had …
Read More »Review: Tim Hecker's 'Konoyo' Turns Japanese Woodwinds Into Powerful Ambient
Much of the nostalgic, hyper-real sounds emerging from the current wellspring of electronic music comes from a fictional, idealized Japan: vaporwave and “future funk” artists sampling buttery, synth-centic Japanese funk and boogie records; ambient artists attempting to capture their icy Eighties New Age rarities; PC Music tweaking the exaggerated “kawaii” …
Read More »See Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers in First Look at Upcoming Biopic
Tom Hanks dons a vintage Mr. Rogers red cardigan in the first photo from the upcoming biopic about the beloved children’s television host. The film is expected to arrive in theaters October 2019. The photo was released by the film’s studio, Sony, and captures Hanks outside a trailer, examining a …
Read More »Gladys Knight to Lead Aretha Franklin Tribute at American Music Awards
Gladys Knight will lead a tribute to Aretha Franklin at the American Music Awards, which will air live October 9th on ABC,The Associated Press reports. Dick Clark Productions confirmed the tribute, which will also feature Ledisi, Mary Mary, Donnie McClurkin, CeCe Winans and musical director Rickey Minor. The performance will …
Read More »Stephen Colbert Relishes Trump's Laughingstock Moment During UN Speech
Stephen Colbert relished the moment the leaders of the world united to openly laugh at President Trump on Tuesday’s Late Show. Colbert first noted that Trump showed up late to the UN assembly; the president was scheduled to speak second, but Ecuador’s president went to the podium in place of …
Read More »Foster the People on 5 Songs That 'Block Out the Morning Sun'
Foster the People have spent the past few months touring heavily while their comeback single “Sit Next to Me” climbs the charts, making it their biggest hit since “Pumped Up Kicks” back in 2011. During downtime from the road, frontman Mark Foster sat down to create a list of songs …
Read More »Hear Brent Cobb Talk Chris Stapleton Tour, Luke Bryan Influence With Chris Shiflett
Brent Cobb moved to Nashville in 2008, landing a publishing deal that same year. Although he’d already released an album — the out-of-print No Place Left to Leave, released a full decade before his 2016 breakthrough, Shine on Rainy Day — Cobb found himself thrust into a business that required …
Read More »Review: Richard Swift's 'The Hex' Is a Gorgeous Parting Gift
Richard Swift — a prolific sideman and producer who spooned instant-vintage stardust onto records and live performances by the Black Keys, the Shins and more — completed this gorgeous solo LP just weeks before his alcoholism-related death in July. “I don’t know if I can make it through/Every color now …
Read More »David Duchovny, Sharon Stone, Jeff Daniels Give Bizarre Fan Advice on 'Colbert'
David Duchovny, Sharon Stone, Jeff Daniels, Simon Pegg, Helen Hunt and other celebrities offered strange advice to Late Show fans in a goofy bit from Thursday’s episode titled “Dear Famous People.” The pre-filmed piece featured a series of presumably fake letters and increasingly unhelpful answers the actors. The first person …
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