Record industry revenue is on the rise. Off the still-rising success of streaming, label executives say they’ve got “money swirling around.” Warner reportedly gave 17-year-old Lil Pump a $8 million record deal. There’s finally profit in music again after two decades of dismal decline. Yet none of this means much …
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XXXTentacion, the young rapper with a controversial past who was shot and killed last week, has the most popular song in the country. “Sad!” the lead single from this year’s ?, rocketed to the top of the Billboard 100 this week after an outpouring of grief, outrage, and heated online …
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Let us now praise Christopher Plummer, the 88-year-old actor, Oscar winner and professional savior of nearly scuttled prestige projects. He’s played everyone from Rommel to Kipling, Mike Wallace to Sherlock Holmes; played everything from New World imperialists to old-world explorers, tycoons to Klingons. Maybe your favorite Plummer is the singing-family …
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Elisabeth Moss spends a night wandering desolate city streets in the new video for “On the Nature of Daylight,” a composition by contemporary classical composer Max Richter. “On the Nature of Daylight” appears on Richter’s acclaimed 2004 albumThe Blue Notebooks, which will be reissued June 29th to mark its 15th …
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Two days before the arrival of Kamasi Washington‘s new album Heaven and Earth, the saxophonist unveiled the video for “Street Fighter Mas.” The video keeps true to the song title as the stylistic, AG Rojas-directed video hypes an impending showdown that culminates with Washington and his nemesis facing off in …
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Four decades ago this past January, the Sex Pistols broke up in a blaze of glory at the conclusion of their first U.S. tour. Before 1978 was over, frontman Johnny Rotten rebounded – using his birth name, John Lydon – and formed the pioneering post-punk group Public Image Ltd., which …
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TheFlaming Lipshave conducted boombox and car-stereo orchestras, constructed a single album across four separate CDs, composed a 24-hour song, and issued music on gummy fetuses and skulls. So for the long-running psych-rock crew, releasing a conventional best-of package and early-era box set might be their strangest experiments to date. The …
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In the three years since Alessia Cara released her Isaac Hayes-sampling anti-party anthem “Here,” the Canadian singer-songwriter has released a debut album; appeared on two Top 10 hits in collaboration with other stars (Zedd’s “Stay” and Logic’s “1-800-273-8255”); sung the pop radio version of a the latest Disney princess classic …
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Philadelphia rockers Low Cut Connie hold court at a local bar in the video for “Hey! Little Child,” a cover of the 1979 Alex Chilton song. Throughout the clip, the band drink shots, shoot pool, pose for goofy photos, fire tater tots into each others’ mouths, do impromptu push-ups, blow …
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Standing in the corner of A24’s office, amid the bustle of the film distribution company’s normal workday chaos, is a pale young man sipping a smoothie. Tucked away from the various publicity folks and vice presidents and other indie-movie mover-and-shaker types talking frantically into their phones, he stands out. Maybe …
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