The Budos Band mingle proto-metal dissonance, vintage soul sweetness and psychedelic texture on their cinematic new song “Veil of Shadows.” The track opens with a distorted drone and builds into a lumbering 3/4 riff with mariachi-style horns and a spy-theme atmosphere. Mike Deller’s blasts of Farisa organ guide the track …
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Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan blasts clickbait and media sensationalism on his folky new song “Chip Away.” “Talking heads are making dollars/It’s like doing crack day after day,” he sings over acoustic strums and back-porch violin, later throwing out a reference to the Flat Earth movement (“I hear it …
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George Strait continues his “retirement,” which, rather than retreating to his Texas ranch means taking a non-traditional approach to touring, with the announcement of an upcoming summer show at Gillette Stadium just outside Boston in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Blake Shelton, Cody Johnson and Caitlyn Smith will join Strait for the concert, …
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Remember Heavy Metal, the 1981 animated movie based on the French magazine Métal Hurlant? That feature-length hodgepodge of stories about stoner aliens, voluptuous androids, horny space travelers, dragon-riding heroines in dominatrix gear and other interstellar-overdriven pulp touches? “A step beyond science fiction” was the tagline; a 13-year-old boy peering at …
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“Dear Orson Welles…” — that’s the first thing you hear in Mark Cousins’ essay-cum-tribute to the man who gave us Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil, some of the most baroque screen adaptations of the Bard ever made and the template for the modern maligned-maestro filmmaker. There have …
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Update: Eric Church has added four new dates to his Double Down Tour, including stops in San Francisco, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Birmingham, Alabama. See the full tour dates below. Eric Church has become known for his unconventional approach to the country music tour, playing three-hour sets with no opener …
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Strand of Oaks assembled a special cast of collaborators, including Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires, to perform the new single “Ruby” on Wednesday night’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The emotive garage-rock tune comes from the new album Eraserland, which will be released on March 22nd via Dead Oceans. …
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For decades, scientists and journalists have been ringing the alarm on climate change, but few forced people to sit up and take notice like New York Magazine’s David Wallace-Wells, whose alarming article “The Uninhabitable Earth” caused a bit of an uproar in climate and environmentalist circles when it was published …
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RELATED: Best Fan Merch For ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Fans The Oscar-gilded Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody may have a sequel in store, according to Page Six. This news came straight from Rudi Dolezal, a director behind many of the band’s videos and a close friend of Freddie Mercury. To be very clear: …
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Saturday Night Live skewered the Momo Challenge in a sketch that employed the terrifying bird woman at the center of the viral hoax as the mascot for a fast-food chicken restaurant. In the minute-long commercial for Bok Bok’s, the announcer tells the viewer, “We’d like to take a second to …
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