In between attempts to crack each other up, Jerry Seinfeld and Stephen Colbert discussed Seinfeld’s new book, Is this Anything? on The Late Show Tuesday, October 6th. The conversation between the two ebbed and flowed between meditations on comedy and actual meditation (Seinfeld said he’s been doing transcendental meditation since …
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Mariah Carey discussed the alt-rock album she made in secret during the mid-Nineties during an interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show Monday, September 28th. In a tweet over the weekend, Carey teased an excerpt from her new memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, in which she explained that, …
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Kurt Vile was sitting in the Butcher Shoppe studio in Nashville last December when he floated a pipe-dream idea to producer Dave Ferguson. Vile was slated to perform at the Grand Ole Opry with his hero John Prine two nights later and asked if Ferguson would call the songwriting legend …
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In its early days, streaming offered a glimmer of a utopian free-for-all: A music landscape where all artists had equal chances of making it big, where a $9.99-per-month endless buffet of music would drive listeners away from the mainstream and into the niche. Wired editor Chris Anderson was so optimistic …
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Unless something very big changes in the next couple of months, 2020 will go down in history as the first year since 1977 that Bob Dylan didn’t perform live even a single time. This obviously isn’t by choice. He was supposed to play Japan in April and then travel across …
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R.E.M., Phoebe Bridgers, Hayley Williams and more appear on the new compilationGood Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, available on Friday for 24 hours only as part of the Bandcamp Fridaysseries. The star-studded, 40-track comp boasts previously unreleased songs, demos, covers and remixes. It includes a live version …
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Facebook has blocked searches for the name of the accused Kenosha protest shooter, following scrutiny over the platform’s failure to remove a militia group’s call for violence at the event. Searches for Kyle Rittenhouse‘s name currently yield zero results, after some Facebook users had complained about being deluged with posts …
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A Michigan judge declined to release a teenager who was placed in juvenile detention after not doing her homework, saying the girl is “blooming there, but there is more work to be done,” The Detroit Free Press reports. The 15-year-old, who is black and being identified by her middle name, …
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Wrabel and Kesha have shared their new music video for “Since I Was Young,” a track off of Wrabel’s upcoming debut LP. Directed by Michael Kessler, the video works within the confines of quarantine; Wrabel and Kesha strip down — literally and figuratively — in their separate homes, baring all …
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In Todd Snider’s mind, the most unusual aspect of Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires’ wedding in 2013 wasn’t that Snider was asked to marry them or that he wasn’t legally ordained to do so until that day. It was what Snider was asked to recite: “Prayer,” an obscure song by …
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