Anita White has spent decades singing the blues as Lady A. Weeks after Grammy-winning country trio Lady Antebellum changed their name to Lady A to acknowledge the former name’s racial connotation, she worries she’s being erased. The black Seattle blues singer has been in talks with the band for weeks …
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Erasure have shared a second track, “Shot a Satellite,” from their upcoming album The Neon, out August 21st. The song, reminiscent of old Hi-NRG tunes with sci-fi synths and a disco beat, tells a space-age love story. “You shot a satellite/To catch a man alive/You spun a web of love …
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Ruston Kelly nods to his Nineties pop-punk influences in the new video for “Radio Cloud,” released on Wednesday. The song will appear on Kelly’s upcoming album Shape & Destroy, due August 28th via Rounder Records. Directed by Stephen Kinigopoulos and Alexa King, the clip features Kelly playing with a full …
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Hilary Swank stars as an astronaut dealing with family separation in the new teaser for Away, which hits Netflix on September 4th. “I miss you guys,” Swank’s character Emma Green says in the clip, holding a family photo that shows her husband (Josh Charles) and 15-year-old daughter (Talitha Bateman) before …
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Scoring over 500 movies and television shows, as well as over 100 classical works, film composer Ennio Morricone (who passed away at 91) wrote, orchestrated, and toured ceaselessly, refining and expanding his repertoire to accommodate different visions and the ever-shifting sounds of the day. Yet despite its eclecticism — or …
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Nathaniel Rateliff has released a cinematic new video for “Time Stands,” a track from his solo album And It’s Still Alright. The project was released earlier in 2020 via Stax/Concord. Filmed during quarantine, the clip, directed by Rett Rogers, captures the lonely detachment and distance necessitated by the present moment. …
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Elton John has announced a weekly archival concert footage series that will air on his official YouTube channel, beginning this Friday, July 3rd, at 12:00 p.m. EST. Elton John: Classic Concert Series will premiere with Live at the Playhouse Theatre, Edinburgh, from 1976, and will be followed by five more weekly concert …
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Carl Reiner didn’t mean to create The Dick Van Dyke Show — or, rather, he didn’t mean to create a show for Dick Van Dyke. When he sat down to write what was then called Head of the Family, Reiner was basing its hero, Rob Petrie, on his own experiences …
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The Dalai Lama has released “One of My Favorite Prayers,” the latest offering from his upcoming album Inner World, out July 6th in honor of His Holiness’ 85th birthday. Featuring soothing, subtle instrumentation, the track includes a verse by Shantideva, an eighth-century Indian scholar that His Holiness quotes “sometimes a …
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In this week’s quarantine episode of ourUseful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Omar Wasow, assistant professor of politics at Princeton University. Our hosts Matt and Katie debate (or as Matt describes it, “I decided to pick a fight with Katie”) the shifting attitudes of …
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