John Oates has teamed with a giant, saxophone-playing Sasquatch — named Saxsquatch, naturally — for a new EDM spin on Hall & Oates’ classic “Maneater.” “I’ve had a lot of otherworldly experiences in my career, but none as mystical and magical as this collab with the amazing, soulful Saxsquatch,” Oates …
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You could not ignore Yaphet Kotto when he came on the screen. There was his sheer size: 6’3″ and broad as a barn in a business where most actors are much smaller than the camera makes them seem. There was that voice: hard as gravel, but also with an unmistakable …
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Nick Cave has opened up about his songwriting process and his personal life in recent years, answering questions from fans directly at unique “conversation” tour dates and taking more queries online for his Red Hand Files project. Now his life is literally an open book. A new folio, Stranger Than …
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Brandy Clark briefly thought quarantine might just be a short break to recharge from a hard winter touring season. Instead, it came close to swallowing up her ambitious third album. “I was like, OK, this is going to be a nice 10-day break,” she says. “But then as it became …
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Struggling music venues across the country received an added lifeline after the Senate and House of Representatives passed a $1.9 trillion stimulus package known as the American Rescue Plan on Wednesday. President Joe Biden signed the legislation Thursday, March 11th. The new aid package includes an additional $1.25 billion in …
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“And if my thought-dreams could be seen,” a wise man named Bob Dylan once said, “they’d probably put my head in a guillotine.” Chaos Walking, an adaptation of Patrick Ness’s young-adult trilogy about a planet where one’s private hopes and fears become public audiovisual transmissions, cribs the sentiment from that …
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A year ago, schools across the country closed their doors in hopes of slowing the spread of a strange new virus. What happened next depended on a parent’s zip code, their income, the political persuasion of their state officials, and the relative power of their local teachers unions. In the …
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