Courtney Barnett drifts though the cosmos in the new clip for “Need a Little Time.” The track will appear on her upcoming Tell Me How You Really Feel album, due out May 18th. “Need a Little Time” alternates between tranquil, strummed verses and thrashing, distorted hooks. In the video, Barnett …

Roger Watersrecorded verses by Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish intended as a rebuke to President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel with the intention of moving the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv.“After the relics are gone/ Where, oh white master, are you taking my people …

John Prine opened his four-song set for NPR’s Music’s Tiny Desk Concert with the ominous “Caravan of Fools,” a tune from his upcoming LPThe Tree of Forgiveness. Backed by a three-piece band, Prine wryly noted of the tune co-written with Pat McLaughlin and the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, that “any …

It’s not easy to watch the slow deterioration of a good person, especially a woman as intelligent and complex as Hannah (Charlotte Rampling). Her husband (André Wilms) has been carted off to prison in their native Belgium for reasons unknown. But Hannah carries on, trying to live life as she …

Texas Senator Ted Cruz(whose real name is Rafael) released a new radio ad criticizing his Democratic opponent, Robert “Beto” O’Rourke, for not using his real name to appeal to voters, The Washington Post reports. Set to the tune of Alabama’s “If You’re Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a …

Jimmy Kimmelhad a swift retort after President Trump mocked the Oscars’ low viewership on Twitter.Kimmel, who hosted Sunday’s Academy Awards, directly responded to Trump’s tweet by calling him out for having the lowest approval rating of any United States president. During his Tuesday night monologue, Kimmel elaborated on the jab, …

Richmond, Virginia singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus has said her second LP is concerned with staking her artistic platform to activist action. For the most part, though, the confrontations she maps out are more interior than openly polemic. Historian opens with “Night Shift,” where she sings about shaking loose a romantic obsession, …

The long-rumored Pistol Annies project may be no nearer completion, but two of the trio’s members did reunite onstage Thursday night in Knoxville, Tennessee: Ashley Monroe joined Miranda Lambert, in town on her Livin’ Like Hippies Tour, to sing “Heart Like Mine.” “We should start a ‘we need beer’ campaign,” …

Late last winter, I found myself barreling down the freeway at 80 mph with a man who goes by the name Ziggy. Ziggy has been growing weed for 43 years, since the tender age of 15. He may be a criminal, but in the context of California’s anarchic cannabis industry, …

An animated version of Kelela dumps a former flame and drives away in a silver Mercedes convertible in the new clip for “Frontline.” The song originally appeared last year on the singer’s Take Me Apart album. Kelela delivers the news to her new ex at the start of the clip …