Indie rock favorites Speedy Ortiz are back with their first new song in five years, “Scabs.” The track is vintage Speedy, with busy, biting guitar riffs and some tricky rhythms and time changes, though, the song always returns to a big sing-along chorus: “Who do you wanna prove you’re a …
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To start, a generalization about the state of work in 2023: people feel entitled to enjoy what they do. Work and life have become increasingly blended and the boundaries blurry in our enormously connected world. Times have changed, and expectations are high — as evidenced by the Great Resignation, quiet …
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Like everyone else, Kelly Clarkson got tired of waiting for Taylor Swift to drop the 1989 (Taylor’s Version) re-recordings, so she decided to take matters into her own hands. During the latest Kellyoke segment on The Kelly Clarkson Show, the singer delivered a stunning rendition of “Clean,” the closing track …
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Rolling Loud Miami is expanding into other genres for its 2023 edition. Turnstile become the hip-hop festival’s first rock act on the bill. This year’s eclectic lineup also includes non-hip-hop-focused acts including Pinkpantheress, Foushée, and Bryson Tiller. Spanish-language rapper Yovngchimi will also perform. Travis Scott, A$AP Rocky, and Playboi Carti …
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As business leaders, getting involved with charity and nonprofit work can be a powerful avenue for us to impact our communities positively. As the National Council of Nonprofits notes, nonprofits contribute to scientific research and funding, civic life, the arts and conservation, to name a few issues. But in our …
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During each night of his solo acoustic tour, John Mayer switches up the setlist. This past weekend during a show in Sacramento, California, the singer and songwriter reached back a decade and performed “Paper Doll” from his 2013 album Paradise Valley. Reflecting on the record’s tone, which has long been …
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NPR will no longer use Twitter, accusing the platform of “taking actions that undermine our credibility by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent,” in a decision announced Wednesday, April 12. The move makes NPR the first major news outlet to stop publishing new content on Twitter; the rule …
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There’s some bad blood in the Taylor Swift community. According to a new report from social media tracking firm Graphika, the largest harassment in Swift fandom spaces is happening between radical Gaylor and Anti-Gaylor accounts online — and changing fandom interactions for the worse. #Gaylor is a long-running fan theory …
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Paul Simon will release a new composition, Seven Psalms, this spring. The seven-movement work, which finds him playing acoustic instruments and drawing lyrical inspiration from King David’s Psalms, came to him one night in a dream in 2019, and it formulated over several more nights between the hours of 3:30 …
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The eighth annual Acoustic-4-A-Cure benefit concert hosted by Sammy Hagar and Bob Weir will make its return to the Fillmore in San Francisco for the first time in three years on May 13. Hagar and Weir lead the performance lineup for the third time, with additional appearances from Michael Anthony, …
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