The BBC announced Monday that a feature-length documentary about Harvey Weinstein is in the works. The film, which charts the producer’s Hollywood rise and “fall from grace” following dozens of sexual assault accusations, will also feature interviews with many of the actresses who came forward with their own account of …
Read More »See Margo Price's Feisty Three-Song Set at Washington's 930 Club
Margo Price played a three-song set at Washington, D.C.’s 9:30 Club recently, as National Public Radio hosted an event to honor the 10th anniversary of NPR Music. Price, whose Midwest Farmer’s Daughter LP was Number Three on Rolling Stone‘s 40 Best Country Albums list for 2016, had another exceptional year …
Read More »Watch Bully's Spastic, Suburban 'Running' Video
Bully conjure the VHS era with their retro, Nineties-styled “Running” video. In director Alan Del Rio Ortiz’s grainy clip, the indie-punk quartet viciously stab a teddy bear, cruise around on skateboards andperform on a suburban lawn decorated with a pink flamingo. “Running” highlights Bully‘s recently issued second LP, Losing. In …
Read More »Colter Wall Plots Headlining 2018 Tour
On the back of a breakout year in 2017, Colter Wall isn’t looking to let up at all in the next year. The preternaturally deep-voiced Canadian singer is in the midst of a world tour that takes him to Europe this winter, and now he’s added another 26 dates in …
Read More »On the Charts: U2 Claim Eighth Number One LP With 'Songs of Experience'
U2 notched their eighth Number One album as the band’s Songs of Experience debuted atop the Billboard 200. Bono and company’s 14th studio album and follow-up to 2014’s Songs of Innocence sold 186,000 total copies in its first week of release, the best sales for a rock release since Metallica’s …
Read More »The Greatest Tours of 2017
Tom Petty,40th Anniversary TourPetty billed this run of dates with the Heartbreakers as his last “big one.” They ended up serving as his grand farewell before his October 2nd death – a two-hour show mixing beloved hits with lesser-known gems like “Crawling Back to You” and “Forgotten Man,” wrapping on …
Read More »Dark Moment for America as Senate Passes Tax Bill in Middle of Night
Long after midnight, following a chaotic scramble that saw tax legislation being re-written on the fly, with handwritten edits in the margins and full pages crossed out, Senate Republicans passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act – a bill that would ultimately hike taxes on millions of middle-class Americans, swell …
Read More »Lil Peep: Police Investigate 'Suspicious Death' of 21-Year-Old Rapper
Almost two weeks after Lil Peep was found dead from a suspected drug overdose, local authorities are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the rising emo-rap star’s death. Sergeant Pete Dugan from the Tucson, Arizona Police Department confirmed the investigation to Rolling Stone, emphasizing that the musician’s death cannot be …
Read More »See Caroline Spence's Powerful, Cameo-Filled 'Softball' Video
There are sonic attempts to capture the experiences and inequities that inherently come along with being a woman (see: Keith Urban’s “Female,” for better or worse), and then there are the real triumphs; songs that not only touch the issue but push the conversation forward. Country and Americana saw several …
Read More »Oscar Pistorius' Prison Sentence Increased to 13 Years for Murder
Seventeen months after a South African court sentenced sprinter Oscar Pistorius to six years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend, the disgraced Olympian had his prison term more than doubled Friday to 13 years and five months. The new sentence came after prosecutors appealed a judge’s July 2016 …
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