If it wasn't the ICE recruitment ads that drove you off Spotify, it was probably the deluge of AI slop pushed by the platform. If I have to see another album some guy generated and published under Akira Yamaoka's name, I'm going to lose it. -- Read ...
Before it became a dumping ground for terrible reality TV, MTV was a cultural phenomenon. If you didn't grow up with it, the impact is hard to convey. The constant stream of music videos made our relationship with music feel immediate and intimate. -
Listen to an incredible cover of Laura Palmer's Theme from David Lynch's Twin Peaks by Dave the Cat Piano. This genius version retains the Lynchian mood but is sung entirely in meows from a plastic children's cat-piano toy. Each note produces a ...
Rule #1: don't antagonize Chrissie Hynde, the high priestess of rock since 1980 and leader of the Pretenders. Hynde kicks Anna Wintour's ass on social media over comments made about the late Brigitte Bardot. Chrissie says: "I'm not even sure why ...
In the new Disney+ documentary series "The Beatles Anthology," a 1991 interview is presented in which the then-surviving Beatles describe secretly spiking the tea served to engineer Geoff Emerick and producer George Martin with "uppers" in order to ...
Uploaded to YouTube on Christmas Eve were "some old tunes" by Boards of Canada, dated to 1985-1996--before their first studio album. Fans starved of new releases are delighted; the consensus is that it's an authentic set, with some justified paranoia ...
David Bowie, the English singer, songwriter and everything else, would have been 79 today. We still need heroes. His daughter, Lexi Jones, posted a tribute: "Da big 79 today. Happy birthday pops, miss ya." A treat: Bowie's excellent one-sentence ...
Banjo star Bela Fleck joins the list of musicians and performers who won't play at the Kennedy Center. His objection is the dictatorial name change to Trump-Kennedy Center, not to mention the whole takeover of the theater complex by Trump. Fleck was ...