Brandi Carlile, By the Way, I Forgive YouLong beloved by champions of songcraft – as evidenced by last year’stribute albumfeaturing the likes of Adele, Pearl Jam and Dolly Parton – this troubadour has released “a moving and righteous piece of Americana-infused pop,” writes Brittany Spanos. Carlile “belts with gusto, whether …
Read More »Jimmy Kimmel Makes Mock TV Ad After New Stormy Daniels Revelation
Jimmy Kimmel is reveling in the latest development in the Stormy Daniels saga after President Trump’s lawyer revealed Tuesday that he personally paid the porn star and alleged mistress, which would make her NDA void. “This might be the best of all. This might be lie No. 1,” Kimmel said …
Read More »Hear Big Freedia's Monstrous Mardi Gras Track 'Best Beeleevah'
New Orleans rapper Big Freedia marked Mardi Gras with a delirious new track, “Best Beeleevah.” The song appears on Freedia’s new Spotify playlist, “The Sound of Bounce,” which celebrates the bombastic New Orleans style of hip-hop. “Best Beeleevah” is rooted in a sample of Harry Belafonte’s “Jump in the Line …
Read More »Steve Miller Band, Peter Frampton Unite on U.S. Summer Tour
Steve Miller Band and Peter Framptonwill unite for aNorth American summer tour. The lengthy trek, which follows their joint 2017 run, launches June 12th in Evansville, Indiana and concludes with back-to-back dates in Woodinville, Washington on August 25th and 26th. “Music is ethereal – it moves back and forth between …
Read More »'Golden Exits': Brooklynites-Behaving-Badly Indie Boasts Ad-Rock, Chops
“People never make films about ordinary people who never do anything.” “They’re out there…” That first meta-statement comes from Naomi (Emily Browning), an Australian twentysomething with a work visa, a temp gig as an archivist’s assistant and the sort of youthful bloom that attracts both wanted and unwanted attention. The …
Read More »Lana Del Rey Talks Janis Joplin Influence With Courtney Love, Grimes
Lana Del Rey discussed her musical influences with a variety of other artists – including Courtney Love, Stevie Nicks and Grimes – in a new cover story for L’Officiel. Del Rey returns to one artist repeatedly: Janis Joplin. When Kim Kardashian asks about formative stylistic influences, Del Rey replies, “I …
Read More »Hear Philadelphia Roots-Rockers Marah's Unreleased 'This Time'
When Philadelphia roots-rock band Marah recorded their live-to-tape LP If You Didn’t Laugh, You’d Cry in 2005, the group was beginning to once again gel as a unit. After weathering numerous lineup changes and finally putting 2002’s Britpop misstep Float Away With the Friday Night Gods in the rearview, founding …
Read More »Watch Brandi Carlile Sing Mournful New 'Whatever You Do' at Studio A
Failures, imperfections, and forgiveness are at the heart of “Whatever You Do,” an aching new song from Brandi Carlile that was released today with a live video filmed at Nashville’s RCA Studio A. Beginning with the stunning “The Joke,” which Rolling Stone Country named one of the 25 best songs …
Read More »Hear Dan Auerbach's Charming New Song 'Up On a Mountain of Love'
A couple escapes the city and finds a psychedelic respite in the new video for Dan Auerbach‘s song “Up On a Mountain of Love.” The track will appear on Amazon Music’s “Love Me, Love Me Not” playlist, which arrives February 9th. Artist Omar Juarez helmed the clip for “Up On …
Read More »Watch They Might Be Giants' 'The Greatest' Video Starring Nick Offerman
They Might Be Giants make actor Nick Offerman the victim of a voodoo doll in the creepy new video for “The Greatest,” a song from the duo’s latest album I Like Fun. In the video, a weird old man – for reasons unknown – has formed an Offerman obsession with …
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