Earlier this spring, the ragtag group of Canadian indie-rock lifers and unapologetic idealists known as Broken Social Scene made their way from Toronto to Austin, Texas, to perform eight shows in less than one week. “We didn’t have our gear for the first few shows,” says Kevin Drew, the 17-member …
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Attorney General William Barr released a letter to Congress on March 24, 2019, purporting to summarize the top-line conclusions of the Mueller report. Now that the full report has been made public it’s clear that Barr’s selective, partial quotations from the Mueller text amounted to brazen, dishonest sins of omission. …
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TikTok is the first buzzy app to make me feel really, truly old, which sucks for more reasons than the growing realizations that come with aging: TikTok is simply unavoidable now. If you’re on Twitter, you probably see the app’s Vine-like videos retweeted on your timeline at least once a …
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Nonconsensual porn, otherwise known as “revenge porn,” is a fairly widespread phenomenon, and research shows that its psychological effects can be devastating: according to one study, 80 to 93 percent of revenge porn survivors report struggling with paranoia, anger and shame after their nude photos or videos are posted without …
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It’s been a long six years since we last heard new music from the Jonas Brothers, and toward the end of their run, it seemed like they had already lost the muse that made them one of the catchiest, funniest and most-charming acts to come out of their class of …
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Pink Floyd will reissue the mono mix of their second album A Saucerful of Secrets as a vinyl release for Record Store Day, April 13th. Unlike the Beatles or Rolling Stones, the band transitioned to stereo fairly quickly, making this one of the rare albums in their catalog that originally …
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Throughout author Greg Prato’s new oral history of the band King’s X, one theme comes up again and again. Pearl Jam‘s Jeff Ament, a longtime friend and fan — and onetime tourmate — of the long-running, impossible-to-classify trio sums up the idea succinctly: “It’s so incredibly unfair that they weren’t …
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The Academy Awards have reversed their decision to cut four categories, including Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing, from the Oscars telecast. “The Academy has heard the feedback from its membership regarding the Oscar presentation of four awards – Cinematography, Film Editing, Live Action Short, and Makeup and Hairstyling,” the …
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Look what we’ve got here: Two married Oscar winners, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, costarring in a movie written and directed by Iranian master Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Salesman). How do you miss with that combo? Consider this Exhibit A. Working in Spanish for the first time, the filmmaker …
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As Chief Creative Officer for Rodgers & Hammerstein, Ted Chapin tends to the catalog of two of the most revered writers in the world of musical theater. Since the pair’s Fifties heyday, a chasm has opened between Broadway and the Top 40, but Chapin isn’t one of those musical-theater-heads who …
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