Their names are familiar to anyone who grew up on SoCal rock. In various combinations, guitarists Danny Kortchmar and Waddy Wachtel, bassist Leland Sklar, and drummer Russ Kunkel contributed to countless albums by James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Carole King, and Don Henley, among many others. What they’ve never …
Read More »
Metallica are streaming their rainy 2019 set from Manchester, England for the latest installment of the #MetallicaMondays concert series. The show, part of the quartet’s lengthy tour promoting 2016’s Hardwired… to Self-Destruct, took place June 18th of that year at the city’s Etihad Stadium. The free stream kicked off at …
Read More »
Warner Bros. has announced that it will be making its 2019 civil rights legal drama,Just Mercy, free to stream on digital platforms throughout June in light of the ongoing George Floyd protests. “We believe in the power of story,” representatives from Warner Bros. said in a statement. “Our film Just …
Read More »
Each month, the editors and critics at Rolling Stone compile a list of must-hear new albums. Our picks for May include Lady Gaga’s return to the dancefloor, Bad Bunny’s quarantine quickie and Steve Earle’s tribute to coal country Lady Gaga, Chromatica Chromaticais a return to form, and a return to …
Read More »
Lana Del Rey has shared a new spoken word piece titled “Patent Leather Do-Over,” featuring music by Jack Antonoff. In a follow-up post, Del Rey said that the piece would appear on Behind the Iron Gates – Insights From an Institution, the second of two spoken word LPs she recorded; …
Read More »
“The first album I bought was probablyLove,by the Cult,” Simon Pegg says in our latest installment of The First Time video interview series. The screenwriter, actor, and self-professed music nerd dove into some of his post-punk favorites while promoting his new film, the thriller Inheritance, in which he stars with …
Read More »
Pearl Jam enlist Greta Thunberg to issue a dire climate change warning in the band’s new animated video for “Retrograde,” a track off their recent LP Gigaton. In the video, a man visits a fortune teller’s shop and, upon peering into a crystal ball, sees a series of climate change …
Read More »
Cherry Glazerr blazed through an intimate set for the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s In My Room, a series in which artists perform from home while in quarantine. Sitting alongside a funky purple light fixture, lead singer Clementine Creevy and drummer Tabor Allen launched into “Juicy Socks” from their 2019 …
Read More »
Elon Musk made headlines this week when he launched into a rant directed at California’s shelter-in-place mandate during a Tesla Q1 earnings call — and Trevor Noah was quick to poke fun at the tech entrepreneur on The Daily Show. On the earnings call, Musk criticized the state’s requirement that …
Read More »
In this week’s quarantine episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Rep. Rashida Tlaib to discuss her initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic and how she deals with Trump. Matt and Katie respond to Hillary Clinton’s conversation with Joe Biden, and the multifaceted tone-deafness of Clinton …
Read More »