Stardust, the David Bowie biopic starring indie folk musician and actor Johnny Flynn, was supposed to make its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival back in April, but that fest got canceled along with most everything else thanks to the pandemic.… Read More
Back in July, Lollapalooza co-founder Marc Geiger infamously predicted that live music wouldn't return until 2022. In a new interview with The New York Times, he's sticking to that timeline, and he thinks he can help venues survive the extended… Read More
Grimes is a fan of AI and has now collaborated with the Endel sleep app people to make an "AI Lullaby" which is a "limited edition sleep soundscape with original music and vocals by Grimes." Endel says in a statement,… Read More
Schneider, the Composer Schneider’s status as a highly acclaimed jazz composer has few true parallels in creative music. Unlike the huge majority of jazz composers—Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, and Wayne Shorter, say—her acclaim wasn’t preceded or accompanied by her success… Read More
Having just released his terrific new album Sundowner a couple weeks ago, Kevin Morby is already back with a new single, "US Mail." Kevin premiered the song, which is about "a mother communicating with her daughter via the USPS from… Read More
When the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro caught coronavirus in July 2020, it seemed like a matter of time until Donald Trump followed. Sure enough, three months later, the American president had tested positive. Neither took the pandemic seriously, and this… Read More
They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, and the maxim is even more accurate for graphic novels. This surprised me when I first started reading graphic literature – in a medium that is so heavily iconographic, surely… Read More
Mike Park is a ska lifer who's led or co-led Skankin' Pickle, The Bruce Lee Band, The Chinkees (who have a new EP), and others over the years, and Catbite are not just one of the best new ska bands… Read More
This Friday (10/30), OutKast will release an expanded 20th anniversary reissue of their classic 2000 album Stankonia on streaming services and as Vinyl Me, Please's record of the month. It's got a few bonus tracks, and perhaps the most anticipated… Read More
The acoustic punk song is a time-honored tradition that has seen a rise — due to necessity — during this year of isolation. This edition of In Defense of the Genre looks at 30 songs from throughout punk history with… Read More