Morgan Wallen will mark the release of Dangerous: The Double Album with a livestream concert event at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. The album is set for release on January 8th, with the live performance to follow on January 12th. Backed by his full band, Wallen will take the stage at the …
Read More »'Everyone's a Nerd About Something': Inside the World of TV Superfandom
It’s before dawn on Monday, April 27th, in Bristol, England, and Sara Rogovin is in her apartment composing a tweet. The fact that more than a thousand people around the world are waiting to read it isn’t remotely on her mind as she crafts her reaction to what is probably …
Read More »Year in Review: So, How Was Your 2020, Tim Heidecker?
So, How Was Your 2020? is a series in which our favorite entertainers answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their year. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. Despite the coronavirus pandemic, Tim Heidecker enjoyed a productive 2020 as the comedian prepped his …
Read More »Sinéad O'Connor Memoir Gets June Release Date
Sinéad O’Connor will publish a new memoir next summer. On Monday, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media announced that the Irish singer-songwriter’s Rememberings will be out on June 1st, 2021. The memoir will find O’Connor looking back on her childhood in Dublin, where she grew up in an abusive household, …
Read More »Colbert, Kimmel, Fallon Delight in William Barr Dousing Trump's Election Fraud Claims
Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon all relished Attorney General William Barr rebuffing President Donald Trump’s baseless accusations of widespread voter fraud on their respective late-night shows Tuesday, December 1st. Tuesday, Barr — who has been one of Trump’s most loyal appointees — told The Associated Press that the …
Read More »Haim, Feist, and More to Cover Cat Stevens in Virtual Festival
Yusuf/Cat Stevens has announced CatSong Festival, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of his 1970 albums Tea for the TillermanandMona Bone Jakon. Dave Matthews, Jack Johnson, Haim, James Morrison, Brandon Boyd of Incubus, Passenger, Feist, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Sad13, and more among the over 40 artists performing for the virtual …
Read More »'Happiest Season': Clea DuVall on Making an LGBTQ Christmas Rom-Com
Christmas movies — and holiday-centered rom-coms in particular — have become synonymous with the season. It’s a genre that’s an indelible part of the pop culture canon, and one that, until very recently, has been straight as the business end of a candy cane. But all that’s changing — and …
Read More »Morrissey Is Splitting From His Record Label With 'Galvanic Horror'
Morrissey is in search of a new record label. After three albums on BMG, the label has decided to consciously uncouple with the former Smiths frontman. “This news is perfectly in keeping with the relentless galvanic horror of 2020. We would be critically insane to expect anything positive,” Morrissey said …
Read More »Musicians on Musicians — in Quarantine
When Taylor Swift walked into Paul McCartney’s MPL Studios office in London, in early October, for this issue’s cover story, she arrived without assistants or stylists or even a makeup person. (Appropriately, Taylor chose to wear clothes designed by Paul’s daughter Stella McCartney for the occasion.) For most of the …
Read More »Q Is Back, But Does QAnon Have a Future?
Those who follow QAnon, the baseless conspiracy theory positing a deep state plot orchestrated by child-assaulting, Satan-worshipping leftists, are guided by the exhortation to “trust the plan,” an omnipresent mantra to keep faith in the anonymous poster Q and in President Donald J. Trump. In the days following Election Night, …
Read More »