Gov’t Mule will offer select fans a preview of their new live album and concert film, Bring on the Music, at a special meet and greet ahead of their set at Mountain Jam in Bethel, New York this weekend. The event will be held at the Museum at Bethel Woods …
Read More »A Guide to What's Fake in 'Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story'
“If someone’s wearing a mask, he’s gonna tell you the truth,” Bob Dylan says midway through Martin Scorsese’s new Netflix movie Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story. “If he’s not wearing a mask, it’s highly unlikely.” As he says these words, Bob Dylan is most definitely not wearing a …
Read More »Stef Chura is an Unstoppable Midwestern Indie-Rock Force on 'Midnight'
Michigan’s Stef Chura is a formidable triple threat: intense singer, bracing guitarist, revelatory songwriter. You can hear Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in her side-eyed snarl, Cat Power’s coiled intimacy in her quieter moments, Jack White and PJ Harvey in her modernist take on primitive instrumental violence and …
Read More »Watch Taron Egerton and Elton John Surprise Fans With 'Your Song'
Rocketman star Taron Egerton joined Elton John onstage in Hove, U.K. during John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour to perform a duet of “Your Song.” Wearing a rainbow tee-shirt, Egerton stood front and center to sing the classic tune as John joined on piano and vocals. The performance is the …
Read More »Puerto Rican Punks Dávila 666 Drop First Song in Five Years, 'Huesos Viejos'
In a time when Puerto Rican music is more popular than ever — more specifically, that of urbano superstars like Daddy Yankee, Bad Bunny and Ozuna — reviving a rock band seems like a hard sell. But this summer, beloved Boricua punks Dávila 666 are up for a challenge. “We …
Read More »Michael Buble Knows He's Great at Singing Covers
“It sounds like a cliché when I say this,” Michael Bublé admits at the beginning of this week’s Spotify Under Cover podcast. “But the songs pick me, as much as I pick the songs.I think if you asked me and gave me a truth serum what I’m best at or …
Read More »YouTube to Ban Videos Promoting Extremist, Supremacist Views
YouTube has announced a new plan to ban and remove videos promoting extreme views such as white supremacy, sexism and racism in its latest attempt to rid the the site of hate speech. The company, which is owned by Google, detailed their plan in a blog post Wednesday, writing that …
Read More »Three-Eyed Man: Remembering Psychedelic Seer Roky Erickson
I saw Roky Erickson in performance for the last time on September 5th, 2017, at Rough Trade Records in Brooklyn. It turned out to be the best of the many Erickson shows I saw over almost three decades. I was not in the right space/time quadrant to see His Enduring …
Read More »Bob Dylan's 'Rolling Thunder Revue': See Trailer for Martin Scorsese's Netflix Doc
Netflix released the first trailer for Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, Martin Scorsese’s documentary about Dylan’s legendary 1975 jaunt. The film, which arrives on the streaming service and select theaters on June 12th, accompanies the release of the massive 14-disc Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings. Scorsese’s …
Read More »Ali Wong on 'Always Be My Maybe,' Keanu Reeves and the Perils of Fame
Ali Wong had been a working comedian for years before the 2016 release of her first special, Baby Cobra, which she performed while seven months pregnant with her first child, catapulted her to stardom. Her 2018 follow-up, Hard-Knock Wife (filmed while she was pregnant with her second), was an equally …
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