UPDATE: Janelle Monae will release her 44-minute short filmDirty Computer: An Emotion Picture By Janelle Monáeon MTV and BET on April 26th, one day before the release of her new album Dirty Computer. “Dirty Computer is a near-future story that takes place in a totalitarian society,” she tells Rolling Stone.“I …

Ten months after FX announced plans for a Donald Glover-written animated series dedicated to the Marvel antihero Deadpool, both the network and the Atlanta star revealed Saturday that they are exiting the project. Donald Glover and his brother Stephen Glover were recruited to write, executive produce and showrun the cartoon …

Three of the most acclaimed country and Americana artists of the past three decades are teaming for a North American tour this summer. Dubbed the LSD Tour, a clever play on their first names, it will feature singer-songwriters Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle and Dwight Yoakam all taking the stage at …

Devo members Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale have assembled a unique chronicle of the pioneering New Wave group. Two new books – Devo: The Brand and Devo: Unmasked – will be packaged together to show the group’s trajectory both as a product, in the first volume, and as a musical …

Stephen Colbert ripped Cambridge Analytica, a data company that has been linked to President Trump‘s 2016 election campaign, on Monday. The firm is accused of stealing Facebook information from over 50 million users without their permission. More distressing, Colbert noted, was that Facebook knew about the breach but failed to …

Keith Urban might not have expected to learn of a long-lost relative when he showed up at the Austin Convention Center on Friday afternoon (an audience member claimed someone in her family was related to the country star), but that’s just what he got, along with a number of pitches …

When Pat Green released his major label debut album Three Days in 2001, it introduced the singer-songwriter to a national audience, with its follow-up, 2003’s Wave on Wave, raising his profile even higher via the hit title track. But in his native Texas, Green was already a star, adored by …

Cam will take a decidedly scaled-down approach to playing shows in 2018, hitting the road in April for the “Listening Room Series” Tour. The “Diane” singer’s new trek will visit more than 10 cities, many of them in her native California. Eschewing the full-band format of previous tours, the “Listening …

Arctic Monkeys announced a North American summer tour. The brief trek launches May 5th with a date at Los Angeles’s Hollywood Forever Cemetery. After a series of European shows, the indie rockers will perform a headlining slot at Delaware’s Firefly Festival, followed by nine more concerts in the U.S. and …

Kurt Vile takes a side gig as Carrie Brownstein‘s literal in-house roadie in a sketch from Portlandia‘s ongoing eighth and final season. The clip opens with Fred Armisen presenting to Brownstein a ridiculously elaborate birthday gift: a music-themed transformation of their house, including rock memorabilia, a Chrissie Hynde mural, a …