When we last saw John Rambo — Vietnam vet, social pariah, savior of POWs and stoic killing machine — he was saving missionaries and mercenaries in war-torn Burma at the end of Bush II’s second term. Then our man returned home to Arizona, walking down the dusty path to the …
Read More »Read Exclusive Excerpt From Neil Young's New Book 'To Feel the Music'
A lot of artists have complained about the abysmal sound quality of digital music over the years, but Neil Young is one of the few that actually did something about it. It began in 2012, when Young began talking about his plans to create a high-resolution digital music company called …
Read More »Tool Return From a Long Hiatus With 'Fear Inoculum'
Tool’s first album in 13 years opens like a grievous European symphony drawn in electronic tones; what sounds like the chiming of a hammered dulcimer enters alongside Danny Carey’s tablas, which tag-team with kit drums, heavy electric guitar and bass. Maynard James Keenan, his voice still striking youthful — he …
Read More »Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On Live' Set for Reissue
Marvin Gaye‘s legendary May 1972 concert in Washington D.C., featuring the singer’s only full album performance of his classic What’s Going On, will be reissued as a standalone live album for the first time this October. What’s Going On Live, due out October 18th via Motown/UMe, highlights Gaye’s May 1st, …
Read More »The Coming Fight over the Federal Death Penalty
The federal death penalty in America, unused since 2003, is plainly constitutional. The most conservative Supreme Court in 80 years certainly will say so when next asked. So there is every reason to think that in the next year or so the federal “machinery of death” will begin to churn …
Read More »In Brazil, a LGBTQ Sex Worker's Struggle to Survive
In Brazil’s northern state of Bahia, in its capital city of Salvador, there’s a narrow road tucked between an abandoned colonial mansion and a private hospital. Leading downhill, it’s the kind of street Uber drivers don’t know exists unless you specifically point them to it. Ankle-breakingly steep, it’s uninviting in …
Read More »Phish Detail Fall 2019 Tour Dates
Phish will follow their extensive 2019 summer tour with a seven-date fall run that will kick off with a two-night stand at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center in Providence Rhode Island, November 29th and 30th. On December 1st, the band will perform their first show at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, …
Read More »'After the Wedding' Review: Mystery, Melodrama and Michelle Williams
Michelle Williams gives great righteous anger. Like any talented actor, she has an incredible range — from mousy girl Friday to a giggly Marliyn Monroe to Manchester by the Sea‘s grieving matriarch — and an ability to add beautiful little nuances to the biggest of scenes. But give Williams the …
Read More »A Very, Very Intimate Evening With Sarah McLachlan
“People have this preconceived notion of me, and often it upsets them when I try to set the record straight,” said 30-year-old Sarah McLachlan in a 1998 Rolling Stone interview. “But at this point I could give a shit if the Internet is all atwitter. You wouldn’t believe the video …
Read More »See Ariana Grande Deal With Undefined Relationship at Party in New 'Boyfriend' Video
Ariana Grande navigates an undefined relationship and things get confusing as they do in that situation in her new video for “Boyfriend,” which features her tour mates, the duo Social House. In the new clip, Grande and Social House are hanging at a stylish party in a fancy mansion, pretending …
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