Alternative Music
MJ Lenderman: Boat Songs
When MJ Lenderman sings the Smashing Pumpkins’ “Perfect” on Wednesday’s recent cover record Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling ’em Up, he razes and rekindles the song with barely more than a slant in his voice. Billy Corgan tends to sing with electrified gravitas, as though life and death hung on every note. “Perfect” justifies the dramatics. It charts the distance between the glorified image of a relationship and the way two people actually move with each other through time. The grain of living weathers away the gloss. While taking lead on that cover—and in his solo work more broadly—the Asheville guitarist and singer-songwriter zeroes in on the fissures that appear in the weathering. His latest album, Boat Songs, holds up what he finds in the cracks, dusts it off, and lets it spar...
Song of the Week: Taylor Swift Has Us Falling Into “This Love (Taylor’s Version)”
Song of the Week breaks down and talks about the song we just can’t get out of our head each week. Find these songs and more on our Spotify Top Songs playlist. For our favorite new songs from emerging artists, check out our Spotify New Sounds playlist. This week, Taylor Swift seems to be signaling that a return to the 1989 era is imminent with her re-release of “This Love.” Sure, there’s no word yet on if we are officially re-entering the 1989 era — but in the meantime, Taylor Swift has shared the re-recorded version of one of the hidden treasures of her pop metamorphosis record. “This Love (Taylor’s Version)” joins “Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version)” as the latest 1989 (Taylor’s Version) preview. Featured in the trailer for the upcoming Prime Video series The Summ...
The Rome and Duddy Show Talks Red Rocks and Jealousy of Jam Bands
Listen via: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Amazon Music | iHeartRadio | Pocket Casts | RadioPublic | Stitcher | RSS Sublime with Rome recently played the iconic Red Rocks in Colorado alongside GZA and Katastro, while Dirty Heads were part of the Sweet Water 420 jam band festival in Atlanta. On this episode of The Rome and Duddy Show, Rome and Duddy revisit the gigs, with Duddy B revealing why he’s now jealous of jam bands. Related Video Plus, the guys answer more fan questions, revealing their kids’ creative names for beer, takes on weird food, and the time one of them almost ate horse. Take a listen above, or watch the full chat below via YouTube. Then, make sure you like, review, ...
Fred Savage Fired from The Wonder Years Reboot Following Allegations of Misconduct
Fred Savage has been fired from his roles as an executive producer and director of ABC’s The Wonder Years revival following allegations of misconduct. According to The Hollywood Reporter, three separate allegations were made against Savage, and an investigation was conducted. “Upon [the investigation’s] completion, the decision was made to terminate his employment as an executive producer and director of The Wonder Years,” ABC said in a statement. Advertisement Related Video Details of the allegations were not made public, but Deadline reports that they included verbal outbursts and inappropriate behavior. Savage cooperated fully with the investigation. This is not the first time Savage has faced allegations of misconduct. In 2020, Savage was sued by Youngjoo Hwang, a costumer on...
Pianists Will Open for Rammstein on Their Upcoming Stadium Tours
Rammstein 2022 Tour Dates:05/15 – Prague, CZ @ Airport Letnany (Tix)05/16 – Prague, CZ @ Airport Letnany (Tix)05/20 – Leipzig, DE @ Red Bull Arena05/21 – Leipzig, DE @ Red Bull Arena05/25 – Klagenfurt, AT @ Wörthersee Stadion05/26 – Klagenfurt, AT @ Wörthersee Stadion05/30 – Zurich, CH @ Stadion Letzigrund05/31 – Zurich, CH @ Stadion Letzigrund06/04 – Berlin, DE @ Olympiastadion06/05 – Berlin, DE @ Olympiastadion06/10 – Stuttgart, DE @ Cannstatter Wasen06/11 – Stuttgart, DE @ Cannstatter Wasen06/14 – Hamburg, DE @ Volksparkstadion06/15 – Hamburg, DE @ Volksparkstadion06/18 – Dusseldorf, DE @ Merkur Spiel-Arena06/19 – Dusseldorf, DE @ Merkur Spiel-Arena06/22 – Aarhus, DK @ Ceres Park06/26 – Coventry, UK @ Building Society Arena06/30 – Cardiff, UK @ Principality Stadium07/04 – Nijmegen, NL @...
Rap Song of the Week: Doja Cat Gambles on Her Own Bars with “Vegas”
Rap Song of the Week rounds up the hip-hop tracks you need to hear every Friday. Check out the full playlist here. Today, Doja Cat drops her new single, “Vegas.” Recently, Remy Ma stirred the pot when she said Doja Cat isn’t a rapper during an episode of Drink Champs. The veteran Bronx MC added that although Doja makes “dope records,” she doesn’t belong in the rap category at the Grammys, either. It’s been a constant debate over the past several years as Doja has earned mainstream success, as detractors have labeled her a pop singer despite her background in the LA hip-hop underground scene. After a pair of sets at Coachella proving she’s more than capable of being a headliner, Doja Cat dropped her new single “Vegas” today. First previewed at the festival, it’s the lea...
Phoebe Bridgers Announces New Tour Dates with Proceeds Pledged to Abortion Charity
Phoebe Bridgers has added several stops to her ongoing “2022 Reunion Tour.” She’ll be supported by her Saddest Factory signees Sloppy Jane, Charlie Hickey, Claud, MUNA, and Christian Lee Hutson, and for each ticket purchased, she’ll donate $1 to the Mariposa Fund, which is dedicated to providing undocumented people with reproductive services including abortion. The “Reunion Tour” kicked off last month in support of Bridgers’ 2020 breakout album Punisher. The new dates are mostly extended stays in cities she had already planned to visit, including longer runs in New York, Vancouver, and London. “Tour starts in 7 days,” Bridgers reminded her fans in a social media post today, May 6th. “A dollar of each ticket will go to The Mariposa Fund, who work to provide abortions, sp...
Liam Neeson Makes Surprise Cameo on Atlanta to “Apologize” for Past Racism Scandal
Atlanta fans were in for a surprise last night when none other than Liam Neeson popped up on the hit FX drama’s latest episode. In his Season 3 cameo appearance written by Donald Glover, the Taken action star played a fictitious version of himself who chats up Brian Tyree Henry’s Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles at a bar called Cancel Club. “You might’ve heard or read about my transgression,” Neeson says on the show, referencing his racially-charged controversy back in 2019. “You know, what I said about what I wanted to do to a Black guy, any Black guy, when I was a younger man in London. A friend of mine had been raped and I acted out of anger. I look back now and it honestly frightens me. I thought people knowing who I once was would make clear who I am, who I’ve become. But with all that b...
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson Renewed for Season 3 at Netflix
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, the hit Netflix sketch series, has been picked up for Season 3. As cast member Sam Richardson told Variety, the writing process is underway, but there are no further details available. “I’m not sure when they’ll start filming,” Richardson said. “But there are funny sketches coming already, I can tell you that much.” Co-created by star Tim Robinson with Zach Kanin, the show’s second season dropped on Netflix back in July 2021 more than two years after its 2019 premiere. Both seasons have contained six episodes of off-beat, absurdist sketches running roughly 15 to 17 minutes long. Advertisement Related Video In a couple of the most memorable skits from Season 1, Robinson tussled with Steven Yeun over a gift receipt at a birthday party gone ter...
Dawes Announce Misadventures of Doomscroller LP, Share “Someone Else’s Café / Doomscroller Tries to Relax”: Stream
Dawes have announced their eighth studio album, Misadventures of Doomscroller. Arriving July 22nd via Rounder Records, the seven-track LP is being previewed today with the jazzy nine-minute single “Someone Else’s Café / Doomscroller Tries to Relax.” Recorded alongside producer Jonathan Wilson (who also helmed 2018’s Passwords), the new LP follows 2020’s Good Luck with Whatever (which featured one of our favorite songs of that year, “Didn’t Fix Me”). This latest full-length finds the Los Angeles quartet going from a minimalist approach to a deliberately maximalist one. Bassist Wylie Gelber described it in a press release as, “Eight legs and eight arms, in a room, stretching deeper than we ever knew we could… The intros have outros. The outros have bridges.” Added frontman Taylor G...
Every Arcade Fire Song Ranked from Worst to Best
Rank and File finds us sorting through an exhaustive, comprehensive body of work or collection of pop-culture artifacts. This time, we celebrate Arcade Fire’s entire catalogue by revisiting all 85 of their anthems. This article originally ran in 2017 and has been updated as of May 6th, 2022 to mark the release of WE. From the very first notes of their debut album — those gleaming wind-chime like synths, the chugging guitar, the regal piano — Arcade Fire became one of those remarkably few life-changing, era-defining bands in indie rock history. Their songs soared, creaked, ached, and roared, breathing vibrant, triumphant life and passion. For over two decades, the New Orleans-by-way-of-Montreal band have continued to push and challenge themselves, drawing from their own confrontation with p...
“Surgery Is Sex” in New Trailer for David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future: Watch
The master of body horror David Cronenberg is back, and the new trailer for his upcoming film Crimes of the Future will have you holding on to your organs for dear life. Crimes of the Future is set in a stomach-turning hereafter where many humans have Accelerated Evolution Syndrome, causing the growth of new body organs. It stars Viggo Mortensen as Saul Tenser, an avant-garde performer who shows off his ever-changing organs with the help of his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux). Meanwhile, Timlin (Kristen Stewart), an investigator from the National Organ Registry, tries to get an inside look at the problem. In the trailer, this leads to some extremely disquieting moments. “Surgery is sex, isn’t it?” Timlin whispers to Tensen. “Is it?” he responds. “Mmm,” she says,...
