Wilco have added additional dates to their upcoming fall North American tour. In addition to a second New York show at Brooklyn Steel on October 13th, the 29-date tour will now run through November. After two back-to-back live tapings at Austin’s Moody Theater, the band will hit Grand Rapids on …
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Ian McKellan and Helen Mirren star for the first time together in The Good Liar, which released its first official trailer on Wednesday. The film is out November 15th. The film, based on the popular and acclaimed novel by Nicholas Searle, tells the story of con artist Roy Courtnay (McKellen), …
Read More »How Colbie Caillat Went From 'Bubbly' to Country With New Band Gone West
Back when a then-unknown Colbie Caillat released her breakthrough song “Bubbly” in 2007, in a time when MySpace still walked the earth, she and her songwriting partner Jason Reeves didn’t know what to call the relaxed, acoustic pop song when they posted it to her gleefully decorated profile. So they …
Read More »Halsey: A Rebel at Peace
T his may come as a surprise to no one, but Halsey is pretty good with a knife. Today she is wielding it against a cucumber, which would seem like a joke or a meme — given her man-eater rep in the pop-star pantheon — were it not for the …
Read More »How Ramy Youssef Made the Great American Millennial-Muslim Comedy
The afternoon before Ramadan starts, Ramy Youssef is sitting in a restaurant in downtown Manhattan, dressed in sweats and a black Nike snapback hat. He’s loading up on food: a hearty stack of lemon curd pancakes, a side of turkey sausage, ketchup he liberally seasons with pepper. The 28-year-old has …
Read More »Hear Mac Miller's Joyful Turn on 88-Keys' New Song 'That's Life'
Since Mac Miller’s death in September 2018 at age 26, little has emerged in terms of the rapper’s posthumous music. That’s changing. Earlier this month, the Free Nationals released a song that they recorded with Miller. And today, 88-Keys released a heartfelt track he recorded with Miller, which has the …
Read More »'The Quiet One' Review: Bill Wyman Doc Goes Wide, Not Deep
Ever since he was a lad, Bill Perks Jr. was a chronic collector. Photos, books, records, flotsam and jetsam from the bombed neighborhoods of Blitz-era Britain — the skinny kid had a knack for squirreling stuff away that had sentimental value to him. He also started keeping a journal at …
Read More »Flashback: Hear Tammy Wynette's Spellbinding Cover of the Beatles' 'Yesterday'
In 1968, Tammy Wynette recorded one of her signature songs, the Bobby Braddock-Curly Putman classic, “D-I-V-O-R-C-E.” Serving as the title tune from Wynette’s third solo LP, the single — as well as the album — topped the charts, and would prove prophetic as Wynette’s second husband, songwriter Don Chapel, filed …
Read More »Shaggy: How I Wrote This
Reggae and dancehall mainstay Shaggy offers an in-depth look at his new song, “You.” He describes it as the anti-“It Wasn’t Me,” in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s “How I Wrote This.” The track features 19-year-old Canadian singer Alexander Stewart, who joins Shaggy for a performance of “You” at …
Read More »Gucci Mane Previews New Album With Single 'Backwards' Featuring Meek Mill
Gucci Mane has announced new album, Delusions of Grandeur. On Thursday, he appeared on Ebro Darden’s Beats 1 show to unveil the LP title and also premiered a new song from the set, “Backwards,” which features Meek Mill. As Fader notes, the rapper said the album will be released in …
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