For more than a quarter century, filmmaker David Lynch and composer Angelo Badalamenti have been sitting on some of the most compellingly bizarre creations either had worked on — even by David Lynch’s standards. Now they’ve finally released Thought Gang, a project that has only previously surfaced on Lynch’s soundtrack …

President Trump wants Tuesday’s midterm elections to be about immigration. The economy is doing well, but it’s complicated and boring. Health care, too, is a confusing issue, so much so for the president that during his final pre-election rally Monday night,he warned that Democrats would “obliterate Obamacare,” a piece of …

Rapper Mac Miller‘s September death was the result of an accidental overdose, according to a toxicology report released by the L.A. County Coroners Office. Fentanyl, cocaine and alcohol were found in Miller’s system. The combination of the drugs — an autopsy obtained byRolling Stone describes the use as “recreational” —caused …

Beck performed his “Where It’s At” alongside the Bird and the Bee and Dave Grohl sitting in on drums during Swing Left‘s The Last Weekend event Thursday in Los Angeles. Grohl was a surprise guest at the Palace Theatre outpost of the event, which aimed “to spur get-out-the-vote efforts on …

Margarethe von Trotta remembers the first time she saw it. It was the early Sixties, and this young German woman — still several years from establishing herself as an actor, and a little over a decade away before The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975) would induct her into the …

“Well if the good lord had not intended for me to partake of the hookers and cocaine, he would not have blessed them with creation,” says a fictional pastor to the anchor of “Cox News” at the beginning of Will Hoge‘s new video for “Gilded Walls.” Taking on the hypocrisy …

When was the last time a mere music distribution service — think iTunes, Best Buy and Tower Records — asked its customers to get political? That’s what Spotify is doing this week in sending users notifications and custom, state-specific playlists asking them to vote in the U.S. midterms. On Tuesday, …

New Orleans rapper and Cash Money signee Young Greatness, real name Theodore Jones, was fatally shot early Monday morning outside of a Waffle House, according to local reports. He was 34. Young Greatness was best known for his 2015 hit “Moolah,” which was released by Atlanta’s Quality Control Records, current …

EDITORS’ PICK: Robyn, Honey Following a rough patch in her personal life with her first album in eight years, Robyn relaxes the tempos and relentless hook-slinging to let healing, rapturous dancefloor grooves take over. Her beats are more seductive and experimental, the reverence for classic disco and house more explicit, …

Three years ago, the producer and singer Lorely Rodriguez capped a steady rise to indie pop almost-stardom with Me, her precocious debut album under the moniker Empress Of. Contained and sharp, it layered diary musings over self-produced electronic flair, winning the bilingual performer praise and a guest spot on avant-pop …