Roots-rock group the Band of Heathens are among the country, folk, jam, and Americana artists paying homage to bluegrass Renaissance man John Hartford on the new album On the Road: A Tribute to John Hartford. The Austin band tackle “Up on the Hill Where They Do the Boogie,” a freewheeling …
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COVID-19 has put independent music venues in a state of crisis. As nightlife spaces across the U.S. shuttered in mid-March due to the pandemic, many set up their own emergency relief funds on GoFundMe and other donation sites for furloughed staff. The Brooklyn metal venue Saint Vitus went in a …
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Milwaukee’s Summerfest — the largest music festival in the U.S. by attendance — has been canceled, festival organizers announced on Thursday. Originally scheduled to take place in June, the annual festival was pushed to late September back in March as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic first hit the U.S., but continued …
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Expect the unexpected from this teasing psychodrama about Shirley Jackson, acclaimed horror author of The Lottery, a short story first published in The New Yorker in 1948 and a literary lightning rod ever since for its depiction of ritualistic violence in contemporary, small-town America. Until her death in 1965, at …
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President Trump pushed governors to use more aggressive tactics against protesters, according to leaked audio of Monday video teleconference call. Several reports quoted the president telling the governors that they are “weak” and “not doing enough” to quell demonstrations. Trump also said that the governors “were a laughingstock all over …
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Charlie Worsham has recorded and released a one-man-band version of David Bowie‘s 1977 song “Heroes” as an homage to the nation’s health care workers fighting COVID-19. The country singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist filmed a homemade video for the clip that shows him recording the track in the studio and hamming …
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Lady Gaga released her highly-anticipated albumChromatica on Friday. The LP is the artist’s first studio album since 2016’sJoanne, and her first new-music release since the soundtrack to 2018’s A Star Is Born. Intended as a celebration of house, techno, and other genres of electronic dance music, Chromatica saw Gaga collaborating …
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Update (5/30): The owner of Nashville’s Douglas Corner says he’s reconsidering closing the music club after a show of support and messages from concerned patrons. “There’s a possibility that it won’t be gone. There’s a possibility I’ll turn things around and I’ll keep it here and keep it going,” Mervin …
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Oprah, Brad Pitt, John Fogerty, Jamie Foxx, and Cyndi Lauper will appear on a Grammys tribute to essential workers, United We Sing. Harry Connick Jr. will host the show, which airs June 21st at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. Per a press release, the show will feature Connick and his …
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This piece originally ran as part of 2020 Sundance Film Festival coverage. Even if you didn’t know Drew Dixon’s name, you definitely knew the fruits of her labor. The daughter of Washington, D.C., mayor Sharon Pratt and a Stanford alumna, she was an unabashed music fan. Dixon especially loved hip-hop, …
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