It’s been nearly five years since the season finale of cult TV hit Community, but Joel McHale is joining the rest of his costars — Donald Glover, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Jim Rash, and Ken Jeong — to recreate one of the episodes for a …
Read More »An Isolated Kip Moore Rock Climbs and Writes Songs in New Documentary
Though he spends a big part of his life onstage in entertainer mode, Kip Moore doesn’t mind a bit of solitude. Since the pandemic began forcing shutdowns in March, the “More Girls Like You” singer has been hunkered down in East Kentucky, just being quiet and contemplative —writing songs, reading, …
Read More »Big Freedia Gets Down in 'Pipe That' Video With Icona Pop, Soul Rebels
Quarantine hasn’t stopped Big Freedia from releasing one of her signature bounce party tracks, this time collaborating with Swedish duo Icona Pop and New Orleans brass band The Soul Rebels on “Pipe That.” With The Soul Rebels laying down a horn-powered backing groove and Icona Pop on backing vocals, Big …
Read More »Ingrid Andress Emerges as Country's Latest Streaming Star With New LP 'Lady Like'
Ingrid Andress has had a surreal spring by any metric. In early March, a tornado badly damaged the 28-year-old singer-songwriter’s Nashville apartment building and forced her to find temporary housing. A week later, her high-profile opening slot on Dan + Shay’s world tour came to an abrupt halt after just …
Read More »Ben Harper Wrestles Loneliness on New Song 'Don't Let Me Disappear'
Ben Harper has shared the video for his latest single “Don’t Let Me Disappear,” the rocker’s first new song in nearly a year. “‘Don’t Let Me Disappear’ is about the fine line between loneliness, isolation and invisibility, to where you can’t seem to find a way not to be hiding …
Read More »After Nearly 30 Years, X Return With 'Alphabetland,' an Album That Lives Up to Their Hype
After a nearly 30-year gap between records, Los Angeles’ punk laureates X have dared to make a new album. As recently as three years ago, they said they would never even try to record something new. Even though the four musicians that recorded their landmark Los Angeles album had been …
Read More »Lucinda Williams Stares Down the Devil
Lucinda Williams isn’t into appointment songwriting. She stays up late, wakes up even later, and writes when the spirit moves her. She also holds on to everything: a possible lyric scribbled on a piece of paper here, a song title in a notebook there. Williams turned 67 in January, moved …
Read More »From Sin to Salvation: Little Richard Tells All
This story, originally titled “Tooty, Fruity,” was published in the July 19/Aug 2 1984 issue of Rolling Stone Richard Penniman was a dishwasher who would be king — or queen, depending on his mood. Born in 1932, the third of Charles and Leva Mae Penman’s 12 children, raised in less …
Read More »Molly Tuttle Releases Plaintive Cover of Neil Young's 'Helpless'
For bluegrass virtuoso Molly Tuttle, Neil Young’s “Helpless” has been a concert staple for years, often played as an encore in her live shows. Now she has released a studio version of the song, which Young issued 50 years ago this past March with his then-band mates David Crosby, Stephen …
Read More »Phoebe Bridgers Offers Sweet, Acoustic Cover of the 1975's 'Girls'
Phoebe Bridgers sang the 1975‘s early hit “Girls” for a virtual tribute concert hosted byThe Face Magazine. Clairo, Gracie Abrams, Clairo and Rina Sawayama are also covering tracks across the band’s first three albums just ahead of their fourth album Notes on a Conditional Form. Bridgers keeps her self-shot cover …
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