For the first time in a decade, Buddy and Julie Miller, two of Americana music’s most influential artist-songwriters, have announced the release of a new album. Breakdown on 20th Ave. South reunites the couple – married since 1981 – for their first collaborative LP since 2009’s Americana Music Association Album …
Read More »'Documentary Now!': Watch Pro Bowlers Get Backhanded Pep Talk in New Finale Clip
A marketing executive tries to instill some self-worth in a group of schlubby professional bowlers in a new clip from the upcoming season finale of Documentary Now!, airing March 27th on IFC. “Any Given Saturday Afternoon” is based on the 2006 professional bowling documentary, League of Ordinary Gentlemen. The episode …
Read More »Barbra Streisand Draws Criticism for Stance on Michael Jackson's 'Leaving Neverland' Accusers
Barbra Streisand has drawn criticism for comments the singer made about the two men who accused Michael Jackson of sexual abuse in the documentary Leaving Neverland. Speaking to the Times UK ahead of her London concerts this summer, Streisand said she “absolutely” believed the accounts of Wade Robson and James …
Read More »Texas Truck Driver-Songwriter Will Beeley Resurfaces With 'U.S. 85'
Will Beeley comes to the end of the line on his ghostly new road song “U.S. 85,” from his upcoming LP Highways & Heart Attacks. It’s the Texas singer-songwriter’s first new recording in 40 years. To say Beeley’s new album has been four decades in the making would be something …
Read More »Watch Pup Rip Through 'Kids' During Late-Night Debut on 'Seth Meyers'
Toronto punks Pup made their late night television debut with a blistering rendition of “Kids” on Late Night With Seth Meyers Wednesday. The performance found frontman Stefan Babcock alternating between a conversational sneer and a full-throated wail as he unspooled the song’s lyrics about finding that one person that makes …
Read More »Hear Lizzo, Missy Elliott Hit the 'Tempo' on Bass-Heavy New Song
Lizzo and Missy Elliott have teamed up for a wildly hypnotic, raucous new single titled “Tempo.” This is the third new release off Lizzo’s forthcoming album Cuz I Love You. “Tempo” launches with a Prince-like guitar riff, but that’s just a misdirection from the deliciously weird, bass-heavy sound of the rest …
Read More »8 Weird Things We Learned from the HBO Elizabeth Holmes Documentary
You probably think you already know all there is to know about Elizabeth Homes, CEO/Silicon Valley wunderkind/wolf-puppy-haver who fell from grace when she was accused of building her health care company Theranos on sham science. The story of Theranos has been adapted into a book (John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood), a …
Read More »White Supremacy Hurts White People
The mass murder of 50 worshippers inside two Christchurch, New Zealand, mosques could not deter President Trump from his appointed rounds. On Friday, he did not consider postponing or even de-emphasizing a ceremony in the Oval Office marking his first veto, rejecting the Congressional block on his dubious national emergency …
Read More »Video of Aussie Teen Egging Right-Wing Politician Goes Viral
Right-wing Australian Senator Fraser Anning threw punches at a teenager after the boy smashed an egg on Anning’s head while he spoke to the media on Saturday. The video of the incident has since gone viral, with #Eggboy trending number one on Twitter today. The egging was prompted by the …
Read More »Steve Perry Soups Up 'Traces' Album for Deluxe Edition
Steve Perry will not let the flame go out on his comeback solo album, Traces. He’s reissuing it this spring with five bonus cuts for a deluxe edition. The record will be available digitally, on CD and on two, 180-gram vinyl slabs; he’s even souping up one of the double-LP …
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