Foo Fighters, Stevie Nicks, Dead & Company, the Black Crowes and Lizzo are among the hundreds of artists that will welcome the Jazz Fest back to New Orleans this October following its pandemic off-year. Demi Lovato, H.E.R., Brandi Carlile, the Beach Boys, Isley Brothers, Nile Rodgers and Chic, Elvis Costello …
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Heat is entropy. Heat is chaos. The hotter something gets, the more kinetic energy it has: molecules vibrate, relationships change, life overheats, things die. You can see that out west right now. Last week, a heat dome formed over the Great Plains all the way out to the California coast. …
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This column is a collaboration withDoubleBlind, a print magazine and media company at the forefront of the psychedelic movement. Erinn Baldeschwiler had already been having a rough go of it. A mother of two teens, she was going through a divorce, moving out of her house, and splitting from her …
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A few years ago, Cedric Burnside was sitting with his acoustic guitar on the front porch of his home in Ashland, Mississippi, listening to the birds and thinking about grief and perseverance. For Burnside, the prior decade had been one of mourning and recovery; in 2012 he’d lost his brother, …
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Lin-Manuel Miranda has responded to criticism that new film In the Heights, which is based on his hit Broadway musical, failed to represent Washington Heights’ Afro-Latino community. As The Hollywood Reporter reports, host and producer Felice León from The Root spoke with director Jon M. Chu and actors Melissa Barrera, …
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YouTube is home to many anonymous, marginally talented strivers struggling to make a name for themselves on the platform. But one aspiring musician on YouTube has captured a great deal of attention as of late, though not for his artistic output: John Hinckley, Jr., the man perhaps best known for …
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Louisville rapper Jack Harlow discusses everything from the first album he ever loved to being tongue-tied upon meeting Tyler, the Creator on the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s The First Time. Harlow credits his mom for introducing him to his first favorite record, Gwen Stefani’s The Sweet Escape, citing the …
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One day in 1992, Angélique Kidjo walked into a magazine editor’s office and found herself being introduced over the phone to one of her all-time favorite artists. “Someone said, ‘Mrs. Kidjo, Mr. Brown wants to talk to you,’” she recalls. In stunned disbelief, she replied, “Yeah, and I’m Mother Teresa.” …
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UPDATE (5/19): Foo Fighters, Post Malone and Miley Cyrus are set to headline Lollapalooza this summer. The lineup also features Tyler, the Creator, DaBaby, Megan Thee Stallion, Roddy Ricch, Marshmello, Brockhampton, Journey, Playboi Carti, Young Thug, Limp Bizkit, Modest Mouse, Kaytranada, Polo G, Jack Harlow, Steve Aoki, Brittany Howard, Jimmy …
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Florida International University has announced that it’ll be hosting the first-ever exhibit of Bob Dylan‘s visual artwork in the U.S. this fall. Bob Dylan: Retrospectrum, opening November 30th at the university’s Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, will feature more than 120 of Dylan’s paintings, drawings, and sculptures spanning six …
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