As she prepares to release her new album Daughter on Friday, Lydia Loveless has shared the heart-wrenching single “September,” featuring Laura Jane Grace on vocals. Co-directed by Loveless and Michael Casey, the video features a woman waking up on her birthday and lighting a candle on a single cupcake. “Happy …
Read More »RS Charts: Youngboy Never Broke Again's 'Top' Debuts at Number One
Youngboy Never Broke Again’s Top debuted at Number One on the latest Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. The 21-track-set amassed nearly 130 million streams and more than 23,000 downloads, out-selling the second most popular album of the week by a margin of nearly two-to-one. Few rappers work as quickly …
Read More »'The Nest' Review: Screams From a Marriage
There’s a scene near the end of The Nest, Sean Durkin’s follow-up (finally) to 2011’s Marcy Martha May Marlene, in which Carrie Coon dances. She has been suffering through a business dinner in which her husband, a British commodities trader named Rory (Jude Law), is preening on about London’s theater …
Read More »See Justin Bieber, Chance the Rapper Reunite in New 'Holy' Video
Justin Bieber and Chance the Rapper have reunited for new song, “Holy,” and they both appear in its accompanying video. Bieber released his fifth album Changes earlier this year. In the new Colin Tilley-directed visual, singer and actress Ryan Destiny stars as Bieber’s love interest and it also features Wilmer …
Read More »Teddy Geiger Wanted to Soothe Herself. So She Wrote an Album in Isolation
Teddy Geiger was already planning on spending some time alone before the Covid-19 pandemic hit. She had booked a house in Big Sur for March, with the hopes of finishing her upcoming album there. Instead, she was stuck in New York for months. “It was the same idea of what …
Read More »Anjimile's Joyful Becoming
Anjimile Chithambo has always tried to do right by his students. The Boston-based singer-songwriter teaches after-school music classes for kids in kindergarten through fifth grade, and amid games of musical chairs and craft projects involving homemade instruments, he’s tried to mold their young minds by playing artists ranging from Madonna …
Read More »Spotify Hops In on Music's Livestreaming Craze
“We’re making it easy for your fans to tune in wherever you are and wherever they are,” Spotify told artists in a blog post on Tuesday morning. The streaming service announced that artists can now list virtual events on their Spotify profiles, in an attempt to help mitigate the effects …
Read More »Our Lost World: On Wildfires and Climate Grief
I’m writing this on Monday morning, before President Trump lands in California today to exploit the tragedy of the wildfires and scold Californians for not “cleaning the floors” of the forests or whatever mental toilet water he ends up spilling in the Golden State. You can be sure there will …
Read More »Trump Is on a 'Lying About Lying' Spree
Trump, as most know by now, is a Hall of Fame liar. A simple Google search of the president’s name and the word lie leads to a seemingly infinite scroll of articles that might just reach back to the creation of the Internet itself. But when Trump is cornered, as …
Read More »Trump Bragged About 'Saving' Saudi Crown Prince's 'Ass' After Khashoggi Murder
President Trump openly bragged about protecting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman from scrutiny after the royal was accused of orchestrating the murder and dismemberment of a Washington Post columnist, Bob Woodward reports in his new book. Trump told Woodward in January that he “saved” the prince’s “ass,” justifying his …
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