“Rain on Me” collaborators Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga lead the nominees at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, with both singers up for nine Moonmen at the August 30th event. The duo’s “Rain on Me” earned seven nominations on its own, including Video of the Year, Song of the …

In mid-June, the Americana Music Association Foundation announced its plan for Thriving Roots: A Virtual Community Music Conference, with guest speakers including Rosanne Cash, Rhiannon Giddens, and T Bone Burnett. Set for September 16th through 18th, in place of the annual AmericanaFest in Nashville, the event’s initial programming lineup features …

Miss Mercy, the Frank Zappa muse and style icon who co-founded GTOs (Girls Together Outrageously), has died at age 71, according to a social media message that fellow GTO Pamela Des Barres posted Tuesday. No cause of death was given. “My beloved sister for most of my life, Miss Mercy …

HBO shared a sneak peek at its upcoming series Lovecraft Country during their virtual Comic-Con showcase Saturday. In the tense three-minute scene, the series’ lead characters — Jonathan Majors’ Atticus, Jurnee Smollett-Bell’s Letitia and Michael K. Williams’ Montrose — use moonlight find a secret passageway that leads from an empty …

Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani sing of domestic contentment in the upbeat new single “Happy Anywhere,” released on Friday. The collaborative tune is the follow-up single to the celebrity couple’s Number One country duet “Nobody But You.” Clocking in at a tight two minutes and 50 seconds, “Happy Anywhere” was …

Against a backdrop of shuddering electronic orchestral strings, big-riffing metal guitar and echoey drums, vocalist ARO — whose name is pronounced “arrow” — sings about how a possibly imagined relationship weighs heavy on her soul on her new single, “Shared Something With the Night.” The track (ARO’s first new music …

A diabolically clever script by actor-turned-director Dave Franco and mumblecore pioneer Joe Swanberg, The Rental has a simple premise: Take two couples with volatile sexual dynamics, have them rent an AirBNB for a weekend on the rugged Oregon coast, mix in secret cameras and the presence of a peeping psycho, …

On The Daily Show Monday, former National Security Advisor and UN Ambassador Susan Rice spoke about watching President Donald Trump and his administration completely dump the pandemic plan she and others in the Obama administration formulated. Rice was part of the pandemic response team during her time in the Obama …

In this week’s quarantine episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by journalist Thomas Chatterton Williams, who was instrumental in the recentHarper’s open letter. Our hosts break down the discrepancies in CNN analyses of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo — from Jake Tapper on one side, …

Yo La Tengo have corralled their recent string of new tracks for an instrumental album titled We Have Amnesia Sometimes, which the long-running New Jersey band created during a week of socially distanced recording sessions this past spring. The album’s five improvisational tracks are available to stream now at Yo …