It seems like everyone these days is talking about the Internet. Maybe it’s the sneaking sense that artificial intelligence might upend this (very flawed) digital utopia as we know it, or maybe it’s the lingering uncertainty of the pandemic. Either way, the world online right now feels like it’s on …
Read More »Robin Taylor Zander Steps Out of Cheap Trick for Debut Album 'The Distance'
For the past seven years, Robin Taylor Zander has been playing rhythm guitar in his father’s band, Cheap Trick. The remarkably versatile musician has also played drums, bass, and lead guitar when other members of the group had to step aside for illness or personal matters. “It’s all just been …
Read More »Honoring the Musical Genius and Transgressive Power of Little Richard
The first thing film director Lisa Cortés did when she found out Magnolia Pictures had picked up her documentary Little Richard: I Am Everything, was send a cosmic shout-out to the rock ‘n’ roll icon. “I said, ‘Thank you, Little Richard!’” she confesses. Cortés, whose gripping portrait of the singer …
Read More »Coachella 2023 Day Three: Björk Tops Herself, Kali Uchis Nods to Her Roots, and Ciara Surprises Everyone
The first day of Coachella was jam-packed with major artists making moves, while the second day seemed to revolve around pure pop. Sunday, day three, featured the weekend’s most eclectic lineup, with all kinds of genres represented on every stage. In the early afternoon, the Argentine rock band Los Fabulosos …
Read More »Coachella 2023: Rosalía, Blackpink, and More of the Best Things We Saw On Day Two
If day one of Coachella was about major superstars pulling out all the stops, day two was about showing off talent in a more straightforward way. The artists who took the stage brought out just a few surprise guests here and there, but relied on the strength of their choreography …
Read More »Madonna's 'American Life' Video Was a Bold Statement About War and Celebrity. Then She Spiked It
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Madonna was due to perform one of the final shows on her Drowned World Tour at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. By noon, the show had been rescheduled and the world had changed irrevocably. After completing the tour, she wasted little time …
Read More »The Raw, Unfiltered Magic of this New Seventies Neil Young Bootleg
Neil Young always knew Tonight’s the Night was intense. “If you’re gonna put a record on at 11:00 in the morning, don’t put on Tonight’s the Night,” he warned Cameron Crowe in 1975. “Put on the Doobie Brothers.” Young’s point was evident without even hearing the music. Just look at …
Read More »Post Malone, SZA, Doja Cat, And All the Songs You Need to Know This Week
Welcome to our weeklyrundownof the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, the first release of the year from Post Malone, Kelly Clarkson teases her highly anticipated album Chemistry, Doja Cat adds to the narrative in a remix with SZA, …
Read More »Kourtney Kardashian Barker and Travis Barker Break Down Their Wedding Playlist
Kourtney Kardashian Barker has become accustomed to the majority of her life being captured by the cameras, but when she and Travis Barker originally began considering their 2022 nuptials, they had no plans to record any part of it. The couple embarked on three weddings: a drunken post-Grammys romp in …
Read More »K-Pop Icon DAWN Goes Deep on His New Single and Life After HyunA
DAWN has broken all the K-pop rules. Well, almost all of them. “I want to try getting my nipples pierced,” he tells Rolling Stone over a video call, his smile embellished with a diamond-studded lip ring, “but I’m scared because I recently got a tattoo near my nipple and I …
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