For a television show that centers on a masked, male individual, the final episode of Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian Season 2 (which premiered on Disney+ 18 December 2020) showcases a sequence that is wildly unexpected and politically telling. In the… Read More
SXSW was one of the first 2020 festivals to get canceled due to the pandemic, with the plug pulled just a week before the music portion was set to start. The 2021 edition is virtual: they're calling it SXSW Online,… Read More
William Doyle, who released two albums as East India Youth (including 2014's Mercury Prize nominated album Total Strife Forever), will release new album Great Spans of Muddy Time on March 19 via Tough Love. Where he spent four years meticulously… Read More
NYC-based Korean-American musician Margaret Sohn released her first EP, Talk Talk, in 2019, and she'll be following it with a new EP, Impostor, due out February 5. We already heard the first single, "Dark Side of the Party," and now… Read More
While the Bee Gees are most famous as the emissaries of disco thanks to the monstrous success of the soundtrack to the movie Saturday Night Fever, like other British Invasion acts (via Australia), they always had roots in American country… Read More
King Crimson's Robert Fripp and wife (and former new wave star) Toyah Willcox have kept busy during the pandemic hosting online "Sunday Lockdown Lunch" livestreams via YouTube. Says Robert, "A wormhole has opened in Toyah & Robert's kitchen to an… Read More
Ana Egge’s latest single, “This Time”, arrives on 12 January via all StorySound Records on all digital platforms. In part, the track is the result of a summer 2020 conversation she had with her friend, producer/songwriter Dick Connette. He was… Read More
Lana Del Rey has revealed more details on her anticipated new album Chemtrails Over the Country Club, which is due out March 19 via Interscope (pre-order). The tracklist is out, and it includes recent single "Let Me Love You Like… Read More
With vaccinations against COVID beginning to roll out across the country, tours and festivals have also been revealing rescheduled dates, some for later this year. Live Nation President Joe Berchtold expressed optimism in December that concerts could be held this… Read More
Director, editor and writer Neil Mahoney, who has worked on Key & Peele, Portlandia, Drunk History and more, died on Friday at age 43. Jonah Ray shared the sad news on Saturday in an Instagram tribute, writing "I’m sorry to… Read More