Last fall, Maren Morris was chilling on the beach in Tulum, Mexico, with her husband-to-be and fellow country singer Ryan Hurd (the couple were married last month), when she got an email from her manager. It was a demo for a pop song by the German EDM star Zedd and …

Cardi B had a pair of reasons to celebrate on Saturday Night Live as the rapper, whose just-released debut album Invasion of Privacy is bound for Number One, also revealed on air that she is pregnant. Following weeks of speculation into whether Cardi B was pregnant, the rapper confirmed the …

If there’s one thing you know about Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson just from looking at him, it’s this: The man is large. Six-foot-four and 260 pounds, with charm and enthusiasm to match – it’s no wonder there’s more of him than could fit into our recent cover story. Johnson stretches …

Joaquin Phoenix is simply stupendous in You Were Never Really Here. His performance is damn near flammable—dangerous if you get too close. What a team he makes with Scottish writer-director Lynne Ramsay, whose output is small but inarguably stunning (Ratcatcher, Movern Caller, We Need to Talk About Kevin). Working from …

A teen punk fan unwittingly falls in love with an alien in the new trailer for How to Talk to Girls at Parties. The movie was co-written and directed by Hedwig and the Angry Inch director John Cameron Mitchell, based on an original story by science fiction author, Neil Gaiman. …

The Voidz,Virtue| ★★★ 1/2Albert Hammond Jr.,Francis Trouble| ★★ 1/2 Julian Casablancas stepped away from the Strokes with a fully loaded scattergun of musical ideas and an itchy trigger finger. With his main band settled into a modest middle age – he’s made no bones about his boredom with it, though …

When Ashley McBryde first moved to Nashville as a bright-eyed singer-songwriter in 2006, she received some suspect advice. “I was told, ‘nothing good would happen to you for 10 years,’” she says. “Completely false. Every ‘no’ I ever received was an inch closer to a ‘yes.’ If you can sing …

Back in 2015, a new country “supergroup” announced itself with the charismatic tune “Western Movies.” Comprising Cory Chisel, Robert Ellis, and Jonny Fritz, Traveller toured and played the festival circuit, but never announced plans for a debut album. A few years later, and Traveller are ready to make their official …

Jack White, Boarding House ReachThe new album from the rocker-turned mogul is a “messy, sprawling, daffy, howling set that sounds spiritually hungry, collectively driven and, instructively, a little bit lost,” writes Will Hermes. “It’s his strangest record, but per usual, it shows his continued devotion to rock’s dark arts: the …

When Megan Mullally and Stephanie Hunt released their debut album as the Americana duo Nancy and Beth last year, they made sure to take their show on the road, delivering not just the cover songs like “He Stopped Loving Her Today” and “Please Mr. Jailer” that made up the album, …