Back in the day, before it was pruned, the genre was called “Country and Western music.” But cowboy songs and border narratives have always been essential to its roots, not to mention sartorial sense. Colter Wall actually hails from Saskatchewan, in Western Canada. With production help from period-conjurer Dave Cobb, …
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The Wu-Tang Clan are taking the streaming wars to Shaolin. Hulu announced on Thursday it’s ordering Wu-Tang: An American Saga straight-to-series. The 10-episode season is set in New York City during the Nineties and follows Bob Digs’ (RZA) formation of the Staten Island group. Written and created by The RZA …
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While in London this week for a string of United Kingdom dates, Ashley McBryde paid her first visit to British television for a spellbinding performance of her song “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” on Later…with Jools Holland. The title track to her debut album that came out in March, “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” …
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California will play an outsized role in Democratic efforts to recapture the House in November. And the man accountable for delivering a blue wave in the Golden State — and across the West — is Rep. Ted Lieu, a rising star in the Democratic party. In a strategic shift for …
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The confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court has capped the most brutal partisan judicial campaign in American history. For 40 years, movement conservatives plotted tirelessly and spent untold millions to install a solid hard-right majority on the court. Checked by the four appointments made by Bill Clinton and …
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Ahead of the release of Halloween, the “direct sequel” to John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic, star Jamie Lee Curtis and director David Gordon Green sat down with Rolling Stone‘s David Fear to discuss the upcoming film. Over the course of the conversation, conducted at New York’s 92Y Thursday, Curtis and …
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A week after Kanye West hijacked Saturday Night Live and held the cast “hostage” by delivering a pro-Trump rant during his show-ending musical performance, Pete Davidson appeared on Weekend Update to slam the rapper. “What Kanye said after we went off the air last week was one of the worst, …
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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit deliver a spine-tingling acoustic rendition of “Cover Me Up” on their new Live From the Ryman album, set for release on October 19th. Romantic and unflinching in its self-examination, the autobiographical song first appeared as the leadoff track on 2013’s Southeastern – the solo …
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Kate Bush is reissuing her entire studio catalog –including numerous rare tracks, B-sides and cover versions –on a series of remastered vinyl and CD box sets. The campaign launches November 16th with the first two of four vinyl packages and the first of two CD sets, via Rhino. The second …
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John Prine puts a characteristically wistful, sweet spin on Stevie Wonder‘s 1984 hit “I Just Called to Say I Love You” in a new Spotify Singles session, released today. Replacing Wonder’s mix of synthesizers with his trademark fingerstyle guitar playing and his plainspoken vocal delivery, Prine brings out the endearing …
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