Despite years of admirable effort, Nashville’s attempts to rock out can still tend to come off pretty hammy. Then you get something like “Mess With My Head,”a searing standout from Miranda Lambert’s seventh LP, Wildcard. Over sleek drums and noir guitars, the country queen unspools steamy psychodrama, singing about her …

“I think I oughta say something about that song now,” Don Williams would tell concertgoers between the tunes he’d play while seated on a stool, guitar in hand. “I’ll think of something and say it later.” The joke being that country’s “Gentle Giant” would rarely get around to saying much, …

A day after posting a goofy video for Halloween, Haim have dropped a new song, “Now I’m in It,” accompanied by a video directed by their frequent collaborator, Paul Thomas Anderson. The clip opens with Danielle Haim sitting in a dimly lit Los Angeles bar in a red leather dress. …

The Pixies pay tribute to a friend of Paz Lenchantin’s named Desiree who died while surfing with their new video for “Long Rider,” which appears on Beneath the Eyrie. Co-written by Lenchantin and Black Francis, the song’s lyrics refer to Desiree’s tragic death in the morning tide. Lenchantin developed the …

Youngboy Never Broke Again notched his second week at Number One on the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart for the week of October 18th through October 24th. The Louisiana MC saw his total song stream number drop from 184.6 million to 149.7 million, but it was still enough to best …

The late celebrity chef and travelogue host Anthony Bourdain will be the focus of a documentary from CNN Films, HBO Max and Focus Features. Directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville—who took home an Academy Award for 20 Feet from Stardom andmade last year’s hit documentaryWon’t You Be My Neighbor?—the upcoming …

In the latest episode of our Useful Idiots podcasts, Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper chat with guest Abby Martin on her experiences as an independent journalist in a culture that silences dissenting voices. Martin’s debut film, Gaza Fights for Freedom, was filmed during the Great March of Return protests and the ensuing …

Mark Zuckerberg is an awkward guy. This is true when he’s giving tours of his house, it’s true when he’s live-streaming himself smoking meats, and it’s especially true whenever Congress is grilling him about how the social media network he created to keep tabs on the relationship status of his …

Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert, and Tim McGraw are set to headline the 2020 Rock the Ocean’s Tortuga Music Festival, which takes place April 17th to 19th in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. While the beachside three-day festival remains close to its country origins in its eighth year, the lineup also boasts an …

When a stranger at a party asks the title character of HBO’s new comedic miniseries Mrs. Fletcher what she does, she replies, “I watch a lot of porn.” She’s not joking. Eve Fletcher (a wolfishly perfect Kathryn Hahn) has a day job working at a senior center, but the moment …