Sturgill Simpson issued a twangy new tune “The Dead Don’t Die,” previewing Jim Jarmusch‘s upcoming zombie comedy of the same name. The breezy number serves as theme song for the film, which stars Bill Murray and Adam Driver. A snippet from the track highlights a scene following policemen Cliff Robertson …
Read More »Fricke's Picks: The Minus 5, Filthy Friends, Garcia Peoples
Of the four new albums here, two feature a modern-rock journeyman in exuberant form and back to work, against extraordinary odds. Another affirms the full-strength return of a great American band, 30 years after they broke up. And they are all rich in the exhilarating — and healing — chime …
Read More »Jon Stewart Absolutely Demolished Congress For Bailing on a Hearing for 9/11 Survivors
Jon Stewart has largely stayed out of the public eye since stepping down from The Daily Show in 2015. But he hasn’t been shy about advocating for 9/11 survivors and first responders, many of whom are still sick and injured nearly 20 years after the terror attack. On Tuesday, Stewart …
Read More »Watch Laura Jane Grace's Animated Video for 'The Hotel Song'
Laura Jane Grace and the Devouring Mothers have shared their new animated video for “The Hotel Song,” an ode to temporary lodging from the band’s recent LP Bought to Rot. “‘The Hotel Song’ is my tribute to hotel and motel rooms across the world,” Grace said in a statement. “Regardless of bed …
Read More »Trump Has Some Confusing Thoughts About the Solar System
President Trump is an ambitious man. So ambitious, in fact, that his plans often extend beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. They’ve done so with Space Force, his proposed sixth branch of the military that would oversee American war-fighting efforts in space. They’ve also done so with his drive to return to …
Read More »Hear Future's New EP 'Save Me'
Future has unveiled his new EP, Save Me. The seven-track offering is his first official solo EP. The rapper began teasing the EP earlier in the week, unveiling snippets of the moody “Government Official” and the dark, woozy “Xanax Damage.” The songs are representative of the EP’s description in a …
Read More »Joe Biden's Anti-Abortion Past (and Present) Is Haunting His Candidacy
Back in 1994, then-Senator Joe Biden wrote a letter to a constituent who had contacted his office with a request. “Please don’t force me to pay for abortions against my conscience,” he said. Biden assured the man he understood, promising that any position he would take on abortion in the …
Read More »Another Trans Woman of Color Has Been Found Dead by Homicide In Dallas This Year
An Arlington, Texas woman named Chynal Lindsey was found dead at the bottom of a lake in Dallas, marking the latest in a series of violent deaths of transgender women of color in the Dallas area this year. Lindsey, 26, was found in Dallas’s White Rock Lake at 5:30 p.m. …
Read More »Cordovas' Joe Firstman Talks Tropic of Cancer Festival, Career Rebirth on Chris Shiflett Podcast
As the longest-running member of Cordovas, songwriter Joe Firstman has carried the harmony-heavy, jam-friendly torch of the Grateful Dead’s American Beauty era and the Allman Brothers’ golden years into the world of modern-day Americana. He and his bandmates are cut from old-school rock & roll cloth: a group of pot-smoking, …
Read More »Rosalía on Working With Billie Eilish: 'I Felt Less Alone'
Rosalía will make her triumphant return home to Barcelona this weekend, with a Saturday night set at this year’s Primavera Sound festival. The 25-year-old reflected on her whirlwind year at the festival’s press conference held on Friday afternoon. “It’s been a year of very hard work, without weekends off, but …
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