Broad City’s Ilana Glazer plays a mom-to-be who suspects she’s carrying something sinister in the new trailer for the horror film False Positive, heading to Hulu on June 25th. In the trailer, Glazer’s Lucy and her partner (played by Justin Theroux) recruits the services of an illustrious fertility doctor (Pierce …
Read More »Eurovision Winner Did Not Do Drugs on TV, Broadcaster Says
Damiano David, frontman for the Italian glam-rock band Måneskin, which won the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, was cleared of any wrongdoing after speculation arose that he’d been caught snorting cocaine during the show, The New York Times reports. In a clip, David is sitting at a table with his Måneskin …
Read More »See Radiohead Side Project the Smile Perform New Song 'We Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings'
The Smile — the Radiohead side project featuring Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood alongside drummer Tom Skinner — made their debut Saturday during Glastonbury’s Live at Worthy Farm livestream, with the trio performing a set boasting a handful of new songs as well as revisiting an unreleased Radiohead rarity. The …
Read More »Joshua Ray Walker Reimagines Lionel Richie's 'Hello' as Country Rave-Up
Joshua Ray Walker kicked off a tour with the duo Carolina Story on Wednesday night at City Winery in Nashville, delivering a tight 30-minute set of songs off his two stellar albums, Wish You Were Here and Glad You Made It. Alas, the Texas singer-songwriter’s cover of Lionel Richie’s “Hello” …
Read More »Mdou Moctar's Songs of Revolution and Love
Mdou Moctar was halfway around the world, in the middle of a lengthy tour in 2019, when his partner gave birth. The Tuareg guitarist, who hails from the Saharan desert City of Agadez in central Niger and is the latest in a growling line of tishoumaren (loosely translated to “desert …
Read More »Micky Dolenz on the Monkees' Farewell Tour, New LP 'Dolenz Sings Nesmith'
The Monkees have survived many logical endpoints. They first seemed like they were done when their TV show went off the air in early 1968, and then again multiple times after: when they disbanded as a recording unit in 1971, when their reunion tours fizzled out amid bitter infighting in …
Read More »Drake Still Number One on Artists 500 as J. Cole Cracks Top 10
Drake held on at Number One on the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart, while J. Cole cracked the Top 10 for the first time. Drake pulled in 128.1 million song streams for the week of May 7th through May 13th, while Taylor Swift once again landed right behind him at …
Read More »Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh Talk Updating 'Rugrats' Music for Cartoon's Revival
When Rugrats, the classic Nineties Nickelodeon cartoon, returns later this month, it will have a new CGI animated look, but much of the show will be familiar. Several members of the original cast will be reprising their roles on the show, while brothers Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh will also be …
Read More »St. Vincent Looks Through the Past Darkly on 'Daddy's Home'
Annie Clark has framed her frenetic and unabashedly retro new album Daddy’s Home as a kind of reckoning. Her father has returned home from prison, where he served 12 years for his involvement in a multi-million-dollar stock manipulation scheme; in the meantime, Clark radically transformed her St. Vincent music persona, …
Read More »'Pivot!': HBO Max Confirms 'Friends' Reunion
UPDATE 5/13/21: TheFriends reunion is now set to premiere Thursday, May 27th on HBO Max. The event will feature a variety of special guests including David Beckham, Justin Bieber, BTS, James Corden, Cindy Crawford, Cara Delevingne, Lady Gaga, Elliott Gould, Kit Harington, Larry Hankin, Mindy Kaling, Thomas Lennon, Christina Pickles, …
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