Last month, a video from TikTok user @420doggface208 went viral. In it, Idaho skateboarder Nathan Apodaca rides around on his board while drinking cranberry juice and vibing out to Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams." The band approved, boosting it by way of a tweet and the viral moment has paid off well for the group: sales for "Dreams" nearly tripled following the clip. Now, Mick Fleetwood is getting in on...
Megan Thee Stallion was the musical guest on the premiere of Saturday Night Live's 46th season. The Houston rapper and ascendent chart staple first performed "Savage," her hit from earlier this year, and incorporated speeches from Malcolm X -- which was also sampled on her "Savage" remix co-star Beyoncé's Lemonade -- and activist Tamika Mallory, talking about Breonna Taylor case prosecutor Daniel...
Lana Del Rey recently released her first book of poetry, Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass. And last night, she held a surprise book signing at the Barnes & Noble in the Grove in Los Angeles, where she chatted with fans and announced that her new album Chemtrails Over The Country Club might be coming out on 12/10 or 1/7. She did this while wearing the same mesh mask she wore on the cover of Interview,...
Sitting across his desk from Thom Yorke last fall onstage at the Ed Sullivan Theater, Stephen Colbert posed a question to the Radiohead frontman. "For decades you've been writing music that is uneasy and anxious with regards to society, our government, technology, the general direction of the world," the Late Show host said. "How does it feel to be right?" Looking relaxed but bashful, Yorke smirked...
Bon Iver's Justin Vernon is meeting with undecided voters as part of the For Wisconsin voting initiative. In a contest series called A Visit With Vernon, Wisconsin residents are invited to nominate someone close to them who's on the fence about voting. The first of these meetings took place in Vernon's Eau Claire hometown, and during the conversation, Vernon also took the opportunity to debut "Your...
We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc. Matt Berninger has been everywhere. After two decades fronting the National, he's become one of the most beloved singers and lyricists to rise up in the 21st century indie sphere. But he's also lent...
It must feel like a cosmic joke to La's frontman Lee Mavers that the crown jewel of his catalog -- "There She Goes," a perfect pop song that he drove himself crazy trying to capture in the studio -- was experienced by far more people when it was covered by a vanilla Christian-rock band than via one of the many versions his own band recorded. Then again, the entirety of the La’s story reads like a...
It's hard to even know what to make of the video. Machine Gun Kelly, longtime rap-industry B-teamer, bunny-hops on one leg across the Interscope Records conference room table, playing air guitar and dangling freshly bleached hair down in his eyes. He's got on Chuck Taylors and ripped jeans and a flannel and a wallet chain. The assembled music-industry types sit and watch him -- utterly nonreactive,...
We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc.…
Will Butler has a lot on his mind. It has, after all, been five years since his solo debut, Policy. A lot can happen in half a decade, and a lot has happened in this past half-decade — much of it quite dire. Butler was in his early 30s when Policy came out, and now…
“Welcome to my bachelor pad,” Lydia Loveless sings at the outset of her new LP. “I stay here when things get bad.” Titled “Dead Writer,” the song was the first in a collection that would chronicle a major turning point in the roots-rocker’s life. Daughter, out today, is the first Loveless album since her divorce…
We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc.…
Chromatica was a smash. Lady Gaga’s sixth album, an homage to club music set in an intergalactic social justice utopia, debuted at #1 in the US and had the biggest opening week of 2020 to date in the United Kingdom. However, something strange happened during the album’s second week on shelves: Gaga was nearly knocked…
We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc.…
“You know, I’ve always been kind of busy,” Bartees Strange says over the phone. He pauses for a second, underscoring just how much of an understatement “busy” is — the Washington DC-based musician was, until late August, holding down a full-time day job directing communications and marketing at a climate change non-profit, all while releasing…
We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc.…
We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc.…
There is no version of 2020 where Barely Civil aren’t a nervous wreck. As drummer Isaac Marquardt helpfully reminds me: “We’re all early 20-year-old people in an emo band,” and a quintessential Midwestern one at that. Their 2018 debut We Can Live Here Forever reflected the concerns of four teenagers spread out at satellites across…
Mike Doughty may have left Soul Coughing two decades ago, but Soul Coughing never really left him. On his brand-new EP with bassist and longtime collaborator Andrew “Scrap” Livingston, Doughty has purposefully sought to revive his alt-jazz-rock project, which was famously born out of the ‘90s underground jazz scene in New York and resulted in…
If Krill was a project about how to be a better person in the world, then Knot is, for the most part, about how to make the world a better place for people. The shift from personal accountability to collective action occurred in the five years that Krill was away, from when the beloved Boston…
The dream of the ’90s is alive in Houston. Narrow Head’s second album 12th House Rock, out today, swirls together a broad spectrum of heavy alt-rock sounds from the late 20th century. Opening track “Yer’ Song” begins with gnarled Alice In Chains melodies, moves on to a dreamily whimpered Deftones chorus, then rips into a…
Jonathan Leahy was 11 when he saw a goofy movie about two bodacious teens who travel through time to complete a history project. “I was raised by old-fashioned parents in a conservative part of the Northeast,” Leahy says, recalling when Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure first came out. “I almost certainly saw it on VHS…
When Universal Pictures started the promotion cycle for Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, they clearly didn’t know which angle to push. To be fair, the movie has got a lot going on. Edgar Wright’s geeky action-comedy romance, an adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novel series, follows 22-year-old slacker Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) as he…
