George Clooney took a stand against “rampant dumbfuckery” — including climate deniers, the antivaxx movement and President Trump’s windmill-cancer warnings — in a hilarious Jimmy Kimmel Live bit from Tuesday’s episode. The actor-director outlined his vision to stop such “highly contagious” “dumb shit” via a fake organization called United to …

Singer-songwriter Ruston Kelly has announced dates for his headlining Brightly Burst Tour, which will get underway in September 2019. Kelly currently has a few European dates left before a busy festival season that includes stops at Bonnaroo, Newport Folk Festival and Lollapalooza. Kicking off September 18th at Songbirds South Stage …

Will Ani DiFranco wear a dress? It’s the day before the Broadway premiere of Hadestown, one of the year’s most talked about new musicals, and DiFranco doesn’t know what she’s going to show up wearing to the show’s red carpet. “I have this closet full of ancient dresses that I …

Between recording new material with Crazy Horse and digging through his fertile archives, Neil Young managed to make time to pen another book: To Feel the Music: A Songwriter’s Quest to Save High-Quality Audio finds Young discussing digital music, from his short-lived Pono device to the Neil Young Archives, as …

Congressman John Lewis’ Washington, D.C., office is filled from floor to ceiling with photographs and souvenirs from a lifetime of activism: the Freedom Rides he risked his life for from the age of 21; the March on Washington, where Lewis wrote a speech so fiery that Martin Luther King Jr. …

British synth-pop outfit Bastille find euphoria in the dawn of a new day after a long night on their new song, “Joy,” from their forthcoming album, Doom Days out June 14th via Virgin Records. Doom Days is set over the course of a single night and “takes the listener on …

Caster Semenya, the South African runner who plans to compete in the Tokyo Olympics next year, must take medication to reduce her testosterone levels in order to compete, a court has ruled. On Wednesday, the Lausanne, Switzerland-based Court of Arbitration for Sport, which is the highest court in international sports, …

Since he first started releasing music as the Mountain Goats back in the Nineties, John Darnielle has been putting out albums at the speedy clip of a power-pop tune-machine, even as he explores fully realized concepts that might suck up a decent chunk of a lesser artist’s entire career. His …

Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston embark on their honeymoon and become prime suspects in a murder investigation in the new trailer for Murder Mystery, arriving on Netflix on June 14th. The clip opens with Nick (a mustached Sandler) spoiling his wife Audrey’s (Aniston) murder mystery novel while flying off to …

There are few people who’ve understood the perils of climate change longer than Bill McKibben. And few who are better at inspiring people to take action against it. His 1989 book The End of Nature was the first to spell out to a general audience what greenhouse gases were doing …