President Trump held a press conference on Saturday to give an update on how the government is handling the coronavirus. Per usual, the president’s words included a mixed bag of half-truths and misinformed statements. Trump first told Americans that “there’s no reason to panic at all” and although “additional cases …
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Harry Styles‘ latest Fine Line single is the ballad “Falling.” He recently performed the song at the Brit Awards earlier this month. In the moody, Dave Meyers-directed video, a sullen Styles contemplates the glass of brown liquor sitting atop his piano as he begins to perform the song. The piano is full …
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Newly crowned heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury led a singalong of Don McLean’s “American Pie” during an in-ring post-fight interview soon after his much-anticipated rematch with Deontay Wilder. “I said I’d sing a song tonight, didn’t I?” Fury, surrounded by his team of trainers, told the sold-out crowd at Las …
Read More »Flashback: 'Weird Al' Yankovic Reimagines Gandhi as an Eighties Action Star
Former AV Club head writer Nathan Rabin released his new book The Weird Accordion to Al a few weeks back. It’s a monumental work that breaks down every single song Yankovic has released across his 40-year career, encompassing everything from big hits like “Eat It” and “Smells Like Nirvana” down …
Read More »Wanna See Bon Iver Perform in Wisconsin? Pledge to Vote
Less than three weeks after Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon covered Bob Dylan and Leon Russell at a Bernie Sanders rally in Iowa, the singer announced a trio of Wisconsin shows Monday that requires a “pledge to vote in order to gain access to presale tickets for all three shows.” The …
Read More »How Canadian Songwriter William Prince Found Resilience and Hope on New Album 'Reliever'
William Prince is in a better spot right now than when he started writing songs for his latest album. Grappling with the death of his father and the dissolution of a long-term relationship, the Juno-winning Canadian singer-songwriter — who turned heads with the swooning “Breathless” in 2018 — buckled down …
Read More »At Work With Mjeema Pickett, Spotify's Head of R&B and Soul
This is the third installment of Rolling Stone’s series At Work, in which we explore the fast-changing music business from the perspective of a different industry leader each week. Read the first here and the second here. Of Spotify’s thousands of employees, there are few more sought-after by the music …
Read More »Hear My Chemical Romance Tease New Music With Instrumental Track
My Chemical Romance have released a mysterious new video to tease their upcoming U.K. concert and the short clips features an previously unheard instrumental track. The video, titled “An Offering…,” features a hooded figure in a skeleton mask making his way through a shadowy forest while the moody song plays. …
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It’s 1977 in Wiggly, Georgia, and Christmas Flint (moppet extraordinaire Mckenna Grace) is pining for a purpose. The nine-year-old lives with her widower dad (Jim Gaffigan), who everyone calls “Boss Man,” in something like a rural, commune-like trailer park. She has a reputation around school as a weak-bladdered “Wetsy Betsy,” …
Read More »Golden Globes 2020: 'Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,' 'Fleabag,' 'Succession' Win Big
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, 1917, Fleabag and Succession picked up the biggest prizes at the 2020 Golden Globe Awards. Once Upon a Time picked up three awards in total — the most for any film — including Best Movie Musical or Comedy, while filmmaker Quentin Tarantino won Best …
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