Taking a quick break from the U.K. leg of her Oh, What a World Tour, Kacey Musgraves stopped at BBC Radio 2’s Piano Room in England to play a breathtaking cover of Keane‘s “Somewhere Only We Know.” The 2004 hit from the Britpop ensemble makes for a perfect fit in …
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The Trump administration’s anti-trans agenda has been back in the news this week after a memo outlining their plans to redefine gender in rigid, exclusionary terms was obtained by The New York Times. But in addition to going against science and the medical community to limit a person’s gender to …
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As a caravan of thousands of Latin American migrants makes its way north, President Trump has giddily seized at the opportunity to reintroduce immigration to the top of the news cycle. He dusted off all the usual talking points last week. America’s immigration laws are “horrendous” and need to be …
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Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) just wanted to enjoy his Cuban food.The senate majority leader’s dinner was interrupted on Friday night when an angry customer went up to the table where McConnell and his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, were eating at Havana Rumba restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky. The man slammed …
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In 2016, Tom Krell, the man behind the project How to Dress Well, proclaimed, “there’s been a deficit of joy in music.” After gaining a following with songs that submerged attenuated falsetto pleas beneath a layer of electronics, he was moving “toward directness” on his Care album. The reason? “Because …
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“Turn the Light On,” the first song on Julia Holter’s fifth album, begins in tumult. It crashes in: bows skidding across the strings of violins, drums tumbling as if down a craggy mountain, horns searing the scene like an irradiated sunset. Above all that, Holter sings, her voice high and …
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October 17th marks a historic moment for Canada and the world as it becomes the second-ever country, after Uruguay, to federally legalize and regulate adult-use cannabis. As Canadian Seth Rogen told Stephen Colbert after the law first passed, it was “the reasonable thing to do.” Although there’s under 200 shops …
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Thom Yorke throws his support behind an entire continent in his new song, “Hands Off the Antarctic.” The Radiohead frontman penned the shimmery, four-minute electronic instrumental for the environmental advocacy organization Greenpeace, who are running a “Help Protect the Antarctic Ocean” campaign. As his synthesizer blends blips with chilly, glacial …
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Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino has revealed he is currently working on a film inspired by Bob Dylan‘s Blood on the Tracks. Speaking to the New Yorker ahead of the release of his Thom Yorke-scored Suspiria remake, Guadagnino said that a producer who owned the “theatrical rights” …
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The Daily Show host Trevor Noah announced a stand-up comedy tour for 2019. The 29-date “Loud & Clear” arena trek launches January 11th in Toronto, Ontario and wraps November 15th in Medford, Massachusetts. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, October 19th at 10 a.m. local time …
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