Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor recalled his lifelong love of the Cure while inducting the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Friday. In a 2018 interview with The Quietus, Reznor spoke at length about discovering the Cure after leaving his rural hometown for college. Reznor specifically cited …
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Fronted by vocalists Mireya Ramos and Shae Fiol, the Latin Grammy-winning, all-female mariachi ensemble Flor de Toloache have released a new video for their intoxicating single, “Besos de Mezcal,” or “Kisses of Mezcal.” It is the first single off their yet-untitled album, due out in May. The coquettish, pan-Latin dance …
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President Trump called into Hannity on Wednesday night for his first interview since Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed his final report to the Justice Department. It’s probably inaccurate to refer to this segment as an “interview.” The call, which lasted nearly 45 minutes, consisted mostly of Trump aimlessly cycling through …
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In baseball and comedy, the term “screwball” has roughly the same meaning — something that breaks in a wildly unexpected direction. Or a series of them, in the case of director Billy Corben’s new documentary Screwball, which shines a light on the comedy of errors that led to the 2013 …
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The firstNigeria 70compilationwas an ear-opener for fans of Fela Kuti and King Sunny Ade, cultural ambassadors whose Nigerian exports blew the minds of funky post-punks and disco connoisseurs in the U.S. and U.K. in the 1980s.Nigeria 70version 1.0 laid out a banquet of tracks by those men and lesser-known peers: …
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Walking the Floor goes live this week. Recorded onsite during the annual Luck Reunion festival, the podcast finds Chris Shiflett talking with Shakey Graves in front of an audience of SXSWers and roots-music fans. The result is a quick, spirited conversation between the two songwriters, both of whom cut their …
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Lana Del Rey delivered her first concert of 2019 on Friday night as the headlining act at the Buku Music + Art Project in New Orleans, where the “Venice Bitch” singer performed “Mariners Apartment Complex” for the first time, as part of a medley with “Video Games” and “High By …
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Ann Marie is an R&B star in a world that’s currently low on them. Much of her style feels like an anomaly: R&B’s streaming elite are typically mysterious mush-mouthed singers who forgo longing for drug-fueled existential dread. Ann Marie, along with a new class of singers like Ella Mai and …
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Calexico and Iron & Wine will reunite for the new collaborative albumYears to Burn, which will be released June 14th. The full-length effort comes 14 years after the stalwart indie folk-rock acts teamed up to release the 2005 EPIn the Reins. The warm voice of singer-songwriter Sam Beam (who performs …
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Chance the Rapper should be busy. He’s a father, recently married his longtime partner in March, is prepping the release of his debut studio album in July and playing Woodstock 50 in August. Nevertheless, Chance still found time to ask the hard hitting questions on Twitter, during a day when …
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