Fleet Foxes brought multi-part harmonies and shambling folk-rock to The Late Show on Thursday, performing “Fool’s Errand” from their Crack-Up LP. “Fool’s Errand” mixes dogged, earnest strumming and ornate singing arrangements. The performance opened up around the one minute mark when Fleet Foxes started to demonstrate their vocal firepower. “I …
Read More »Samantha Bee Calls on Patriotic Americans to Annoy Scott Pruitt
Samantha Bee dug into Scott Pruitt’s already grimy record as head of the Environmental Protection Agency and called on viewers to challenge his efforts to repeal the Clean Power Act on Full Frontal Wednesday. The Obama-era regulation aims to cut pollution from existing power plants 32 percent by 2030. Despite …
Read More »Charlie Daniels Talks Hard Knocks, Bob Dylan Endorsement in New Book
Charlie Daniels, true to his manner, offers up some straightforward, no-nuanced reasons for writing his just released memoir, Never Look at the Empty Seats. “I wanted to tell my whole story and the story of the Charlie Daniels Band,” he says. “I think it has been a fascinating life and …
Read More »Hear Elizabeth Cook, Chris Shiflett Talk David Letterman, Americana
Elizabeth Cook has been the hippie hillbilly queen of East Nashville’s Americana community for more than a decade. With an accent rooted in rural Florida and a small-town backstory that’s equal parts tragic and picturesque, she’s the real deal – a genuine country girl who loves the genre and the …
Read More »Throbbing Gristle's Genesis P-Orridge Diagnosed With Leukemia
Genesis P-Orridge’s upcoming European tour is canceled after the Throbbing Gristle co-founder announced he was diagnosed with leukemia. In a Facebook post (via Pitchfork), P-Orridge detailed his leukemia battle. “This last [year] we and the band noticed we were getting more exhausted than usual and after almost every tour we …
Read More »Dhani Harrison Imagines Bleak Future in 'All About Waiting' Video
Hurricanes wreak havoc, forest fires burn and the polar ice caps melt in the new video for Dhani Harrison‘s “All About Waiting.” The song appeared on his recently released debut album, IN///PARALLEL. The animated clip centers on a character who works in a lab specializing in genetic manipulation. She starts …
Read More »Peter Wolf Recalls Turning Down Tom Petty's 'Don't Do Me Like That'
“To be on this last tour was such a thrill,” singer Peter Wolf of the J. Geils Band said, reflecting on his working vacation this past summer as an opening act – with his solo group, the Midnight Travellers – on Tom Petty‘s last tour with the Heartbreakers. A few …
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Turns out that, in the 1990s, teen spirit smelled like a lot of things. “If the Seventies was a coming into a curiosity of what would it be like if were weren’t so uptight, and the Eighties were about breaking the mold and doing a new thing and kicking up …
Read More »Kumail Nanjiani on 'SNL': 3 Sketches You Have to See
Delivering three consecutive episodes of Saturday Night Live is a tall order. Given how grueling each episode is to conceive and execute, it’s natural to assume the third episode might suffer from some signs of wear and tear. On the other hand, giving this new cast/crew that prolonged time together …
Read More »Hear Steve Angello's Politically Charged 'Freedom' With Pusha T
DJ-producer Steve Angello, formerly of EDM group Swedish House Mafia, has unveiled two new songs, “Freedom” featuring Pusha T and “I Know.” The artist will be releasing his new album, Almost Human, later this year via Kobalt. Slinky beats and dark melodies anchor the politically charged “Freedom,” which finds Pusha …
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