“I was always hoping that these recordings were still around because of the feeling that’s in them,” Don Batts, Prince‘s personal recording engineer in the early Eighties, tells Rolling Stone. He’s reflecting on a demo cassette he made with the artist released Friday asPiano & a Microphone 1983, 34 minutes …
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Colette was a pioneer in women’s rights, an author who was nominated for the Nobel prize in literature six years before her death in 1954. But director Wash Westmoreland (Still Alice) — working from a script he wrote with his late husband Richard Glatzer and Rebecca Lenkiewicz — has rightly …
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Brother Ali will celebrate the 15th anniversary of his acclaimed breakthrough LP, 2003’s Shadows on the Sun, with a U.S. fall tour.The 13-date trek launches November 1st in Washington, D.C. and wraps December 22nd in Denver, Colorado. Tickets go on sale Friday, September 21st at 9 a.m. local time. The …
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Marianne Faithfull and Nick Cave channel William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream on their enchanting new song, “The Gypsy Faerie Queen.” The track will appear on Faithfull’s upcoming album, Negative Capability, out November 2nd via BMG. “The Gypsy Fairie Queen” finds Faithfull singing from the perspective of Puck, the famous …
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Although Hank Williams‘ death at age 29 on January 1st, 1953, marked a premature end to what had been a remarkable career, his legacy has survived — and thrived — not only through his classic recordings but also through the two generations of family members who have forged their own …
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Spoilers for the fifth season of BoJack Horseman — primarily for the season’s sixth episode, but with details about the rest sprinkled throughout — coming up just as soon as I check to see if I have a hand for a penis… When the new BoJack screeners arrived, they were …
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If you’re Canadian and work for the country’s about-to-be booming cannabis industry, congratulations, what a cool job! Just don’t mention it to customs and immigration agents when crossing the U.S.-Canada border, or you risk being banned from the land of the free for a lifetime. According to Politico, the U.S. …
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5 Seconds of Summer bare their souls, metaphorically via their skeletons, in the new video for “Valentine.” The song appears on their recent chart-topping album, Youngblood. Directed by 5SOS’s Ashton Irwin and photographer Ande DeLuca, the video features the group’s disembodied heads singing their darkly romantic lyrics. The song’s sentiments …
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Hulu’s The First is being sold as the story of Sean Penn leading the crew chosen for the first manned mission to Mars. This is two bait-and-switches for the price of one. For starters, when the series begins, Penn is not actually part of that first crew until something goes …
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This week, the Utah Board of Pardons announced that Wanda Barzee, who aided in kidnapping then-teenager Elizabeth Smart in 2002, will be freed from prison on September 19th. Smart, now a 30-year-old mother of two who works as a child safety advocate, said she was “surprised and disappointed” by the …
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