Danielle Haim joined Vampire Weekend to perform the band’s new song “Jerusalem, New York, Berlin,” which comes off their recent album Father of the Bride. In the atmospheric performance, the singer duets with frontman Ezra Koenig, augmented by sparse, moody instrumentation from the band, which spreads out into an extended …
Read More »Marshmello Facing Copyright Infringement Lawsuit From Producer Arty
Marshmello is facing a lawsuit from a fellow EDM producer, Russian DJ Arty, over alleged similarities between their respective songs. In a complaint filed Monday in California federal court, Arty (Artem Stoliarov) accuses the writers of “Happier,” Marshmello’s hit collaboration with Bastille, of “willfully copying” his remix of OneRepublic‘s “I …
Read More »'Game of Thrones' Close-Up: Lesser of Two Evils
A lot happens in each episode of Game of Thrones. So every week, we’re drilling down on one memorable scene in particular. Full spoilers for this week’s episode, “The Last of the Starks,” coming up. “The Last of the Starks” is a real structural oddity. For nearly an hour, it …
Read More »Watch Billie Eilish Get Quizzed on 'The Office' by Rainn Wilson
Rainn Wilson, who portrayed Dwight Schrute in the long-running and beloved television series The Office, dropped by Billie Eilish‘s house in a video feature for Billboard. Eilish, an Office super-stan, got quizzed by Schrute on various details and trivia throughout the show’s nine seasons. Eilish answers everything from the name of Jan’s …
Read More »Peter Mayhew: A Lost Interview With the Original Chewbacca
Related: 50 Best Star Wars Characters of All Time Trapped in a giant, furry suit, Peter Mayhew had only his emotive blue eyes and his seven-foot-three body to help him bring Chewbacca to life — and he did it, making Han Solo’s fuzzball co-pilot as real as any of the …
Read More »Best TV to See in May: 'Deadwood,' 'Archer: 1999,' Wu-Tang Doc
Yes, we’re all going to be busy saying goodbye to Game of Thrones this month. But May will also bring us an older HBO classic that’s back for a long-delayed proper wrap-up. (How we’ve missed you, Al Swearengen.) Meanwhile, the greatest athlete of the 20th century gets an essential two-part …
Read More »Hear Bob Dylan Rehearse 'One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)' in 1975
One day before Bob Dylan‘s Rolling Thunder Revue kicked off their gypsy caravan tour at Plymouth, Massachusetts’ War Memorial in October 1975, the troupe gathered at the Seacrest Motel in nearby Falmouth, Massachusetts to run through the show. The public has never heard any of these tapes before, but eight …
Read More »Dirty Projectors, Deerhunter Announce North American Tour
Indie rock mainstays Deerhunter and Dirty Projectors will co-headline a North American tour. Dirty Projectors will play a string of shows in May and June, in support of their 2018 album Lamp Lit Prose. They’ll then perform with Deerhunter, starting at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Palladium in July and ending at …
Read More »Robert Plant, Luke Combs, Brothers Osborne Added to Willie Nelson's Outlaw Music Festival Tour
Willie Nelson‘s 2019 edition of the Outlaw Music Festival Tour has added a new string of dates, with a diverse lineup of guests: Robert Plant, Luke Combs and Bonnie Raitt, among them. The announcement comes on Nelson’s 86th birthday. The indefatigable Texan already has a run of 10 shows booked …
Read More »Bruce Springsteen Surprises Asbury Park Film Screening
Fans at the Asbury Park’s Music + Film festival had seen a lot of rare, mindblowing live Bruce Springsteen footage by the end of Saturday night. In the city’s old Paramount Theatre, where Springsteen has performed many times, they saw rare clips like a highly-charged performance of “Quarter to Three” …
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