At a virtual hearing Wednesday related to the charges stemming from Bruce Springsteen’s DWI arrest at a New Jersey national park in November, the U.S. government dismissed the charges of DWI and reckless driving against the singer. As part of a pre-hearing agreement between U.S. attorneys and Springsteen’s legal team, …
Read More »
Emmy Award-winning actor and suddenly internet-famous personality Leslie Jordan has announced plans for Company’s Comin’, a collection of gospel tunes recorded in Nashville with a few high-profile guests. The first release from the project, due out April 2nd, is Jordan’s version of “Angel Band” featuring Brandi Carlile. Produced by Travis …
Read More »
Smooch Music has dropped a new video for Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise,” released in celebration of Black History Month. The video features Angelou’s voice reading the iconic poem across hip-hop beats — “You may shoot me with your words/You may cut me with your eyes/You may kill me with …
Read More »
When Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi began considering what songs to perform at the many home livestreams they played during the early days of 2020 lockdown, they started coming up with songs they hadn’t sung or even thought about in years. For Giddens, that meant old-time fiddle tunes, like “Black …
Read More »
The 10th anniversary of Nipsey Hussle‘s The Marathon will be celebrated with an interactive production premiering on YouTube at 9 p.m. ET on Friday. The Marathon Live Visual Album Experience contains previously unseen content and audio interviews, featuring a recreation of Hussle’s vehicle — a Mercedes SL550 — that travels …
Read More »
Kim Gordon has released a video for “Hungry Baby,” a cut off her solo debut albumNo Home Record. Directed by Clara Balzary, the video stars Gordon’s daughter, Coco Gordon-Moore, as a home improvement store employee at the end of a long shift. After a man in a car litters in …
Read More »
Julien Baker has tapped her Boygenius bandmates Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus for “Favor,” the latest single from her upcoming album Little Oblivions. “I used to think about myself like I was a talented liar,” Baker sings across an animated lyric video, as Bridgers and Dacus provide backing vocals. “Turns …
Read More »
Netflix has released the first official trailer forMoxie, a coming-of-age film directed by Amy Poehler and based on the novel by Jennifer Mathieu that evokes the spirit of riot grrrl in the 2020s. Moxie stars Hadley Robinson as Vivian, a shy 16-year-old who prefers to keep her head down and …
Read More »
Angelique Kidjo, Yo La Tengo, Bill Frisell, and Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart are among the artists featuring on a 50th-anniversary musical tribute to beat poet Allen Ginsberg’s The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971. Sonic Youth bandmates Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo, Andrew Bird, Devendra Banhart, Gavin Friday …
Read More »
Earlier this month, singer-songwriter Jensen McRae joked on Twitter: “In 2023, Phoebe Bridgers is gonna drop her third album & the opening track will be about hooking up in the car while waiting in line to get vaccinated at Dodger Stadium and it’s gonna make me cry.” The tweet went …
Read More »