Since the release of his excellent 2017 album Purgatory, Tyler Childers‘ rise, from logging millions of Spotify streams to consistent sold-out tour dates around the country, has been one of the genre’s biggest success stories — in part because the Kentucky native did it all completely independently. On August 2nd, …

Alice in Chains mingle the sentimental and the supremely silly in their new “Rainier Fog” video, which explores the band’s dramatic friendship with an anthropomorphic beer bottle. The clip opens with the alt-metal quartet driving late at night on a winding road past a “[Beer] Crossing” sign. Moments later, their …

Broken Poet is a new film by Emilio J. Ruiz about a 1970s rock star presumed dead who reappears in Paris. The film tells the story of Jake Lion, a former acclaimed rock star who is presumed to be dead by suicide, until a former roadie rides the Paris Metro …

WASHINGTON — The American people will hear directly from Special Counsel Robert Mueller about his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The question is when. So says Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) anyway. On Sunday, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee went on ABC’s This Week and told …

A John Lennon-owned copy of the Beatles‘ infamous “butcher cover” version of Yesterday and Today, autographed by three members of the Fab Four, sold for $234,000 at a Beatles-themed auction this week. The vinyl copy – autographed by Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr and featuring a back cover sketch …

Halfway through her star-studded 80th-birthday concert at New York’s Apollo Theater, Mavis Staples paused her half-century-plus–spanning set to take in her adoring crowd. “I’m too excited to talk!” she cried out from the Apollo stage, 63 years after first appearing at the theater as a teenager with her family band, …

Nola Darling is going to need a longer summer. In the new Season Two trailer for Spike Lee‘s Netflix show, She’s Gotta Have It, the Brooklyn protagonist (DeWanda Wise) declares a few not-so-modest goals to accomplish in three months: become a better painter, be a better romantic partner and “get …

Skip Marley, grandson of Bob Marley, cruises through Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood in the reggae artist’s low-key video for “That’s Not True,” his collaborative track with his uncle Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley. Director Andrew Sandler follows Skip as he views friends and locals: barbers cutting hair, people playing dice and …

Chris Gantry casts an eye back on a hardscrabble utopia in his reverent new ballad “Life Well Lived,” the first track to be debuted from his newly announced LP Nashlantis. The veteran songwriter, who penned the Glen Campbell hit “Dreams of the Everyday Housewife,” returns with Nashlantis on July 26th, …

Despite his best efforts, Michael Cohen reported to prison on Monday. The former personal attorney and “fixer” for President Trump will serve three years for a host of crimes, most notably violations of federal campaign finance law stemming from pre-election hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, both …