Orville Peck has shared a sweet and stripped-down version of his recent single, “Summertime.” The clip finds Peck — decked out in a pink cowboy hat and his trademark mask — performing the melancholy ballad in a studio with just his acoustic guitar and some piano accompaniment from Duncan Hay …
Read More »The Psychedelic Furs Unveil Dark New Track, 'No-One'
The Psychedelic Furs dropped a scorching new single Monday — “No-One,” off of their upcoming LP, Made of Rain, out July 31st on Cooking Vinyl. “Who’s gonna wear your crown, no one/The queens of the underground or no one,” frontman Richard Butler sings against a crunchy guitar riff. “The sirens …
Read More »Taylor Swift Delivers Moving 'Soon You'll Get Better' on 'Together at Home' Special
Taylor Swift delivered a stripped-down at-home rendition of her Lover song “Soon You’ll Get Better” – a fitting choice given the global pandemic – as part of Global Citizen’s One World: Together at Home special, which raised funds for COVID-19 relief. The performance came a day after Swift announced that …
Read More »Adeline Ruminates on a Lost Love With New Song, 'Twilight'
Adeline, former singer for nu-disco outfit Escort, contemplates the end of a relationship on her new song, “Twilight,” set to appear on her upcoming EP, Intérimes, out June 12th. “Twilight” is a captivating soul tune that’s light on its feet thanks to a bouncy bass, crisp drums, and twinkling keys, …
Read More »Tom Waits Pens Tribute to Hal Willner: 'Wry and Soulful and Mysterious Historical Rememberer'
Tom Waits and collaborator and wife Kathleen Brennan penned a tribute to late producer and longtime friend, Hal Willner. Willner diedlast week at the age of 64. The cause of death has not yet been publicly confirmed, but he was reportedly suffering from symptoms consistent with the coronavirus. In 1974, …
Read More »How 100 Live Events Companies Banded Together to Become Pandemic Responders
When the COVID-19 pandemic first struck the live events industry and put all concerts, sports games, and other mass gatherings out of action, three production companies got together to figure out ways they could spend the downtime helping healthcare workers. Their efforts have quickly evolved into a nationwide coalition of …
Read More »'Sing Street' Broadway Cast Premieres 'Riddle of the Model' Video
Live performances may be on pause, but fans of Sing Street, John Carney’s cinematic ode to Eighties British bands, can still get their fix. On Wednesday, the cast ofSing Street‘s Broadway adaptation premiered a short video for “Riddle of the Model” — includes Brendan C. Callahan, Zara Devlin, Jakeim Hart, …
Read More »Nancy Pelosi Rips Trump's COVID-19 Misinformation Campaign on 'Corden'
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi railed against President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 misinformation campaign and relayed the advice she’s received from scientists during an interview with James Corden on The Late Late Show Monday. When asked why Trump is so averse to listening to experts, Pelosi suggested he was “in …
Read More »Trump to U.S. Postal Service: Drop Dead
“We told them very clearly that the president was not going to sign the bill if [funding for the Postal Service] was in it,” an official from President Trump’s administration told the Washington Post when discussing the $2 trillion Coronavirus Relief Aid that passed weeks ago. Trump made it clear …
Read More »'Tigertail' Review: An American Immigrant's Tale, Bittersweet and Beautiful
Once upon a time, a young man wanted to come to America. He’d grown up in the rural countryside of Taiwan with his grandmother, occasionally having to hide in cupboards from soldiers looking for unregistered citizens. The boy was lonely, except for a girl he met in the fields. His …
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