Phoebe Bridgers, who released one of the year’s best albums, the exquisite Punisher, back in June, was the guest on a recent episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. She talked about her songwriting methods, the making of the album, and much more. Some highlights follow; to hearthe entire …
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Superchunk have dropped their new Halloween single “There’s a Ghost,” the North Carolina alt-rockers’ first new music since their 2018 LP What a Time to Be Alive. “I didn’t write a song for probably the first six months of the lockdown,” Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan said in a statement on the …
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A documentary special on the R&B group TLC is coming to A&E next year. The two-hour special, titledBiography: TLC, will chronicle the journey of the top-selling girl group throughout their career in the Nineties and beyond, featuring interviews with surviving members T-Boz and Chilli.Biography: TLC will be directed by Matt …
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Scottish instrumental post-rockers Mogwai have announced their new album As the Love Continues by dropping the video for the LP’s first single “Dry Fantasy.” For the album, the quartet reunited with long-time collaborator Dave Fridmann — their producer on 1999’s Come on Die Young, 2001’s Rock Action, and 2017 LP …
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Gang of Four have announced a limited edition box set, 77-81, that collects the pioneering post-punk band’s two albums and singles from the era along with an unreleased concert and dozens of unearthed outtakes. The five-LP, one-cassette 77-81, due out December 11th via Matador, contains two Gang of Four newly …
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Sacha Baron Cohen offered some fascinating behind-the-scenes details from the making of Borat Subsequent Movie Film — including how that infamous Rudy Giuliani scene came about — during an interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show Monday, October 26th. To start, Colbert asked Baron Cohen to respond to Giuliani’s …
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Cam’s arrival in country music defied a lot of the usual stuffy Nashville conventions: her first single “My Mistake” dealt frankly with the prospect of a one-night-stand and her own pleasure, while her breakthrough hit “Burning House” was a rhythmically complex ballad with no drums. The latter stood out in …
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When a documentary’s opening title card is “Flint, Michigan,” your instinct might be to assume that this will be a certain stripe of downbeat, sociological, living, tragic history — a story already pre-written by the headlines you’ve read about the place. But Roni Moore and James Blagden’s Midnight in Paris …
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President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will square off for the final time on Thursday. We think. Though the third — err, second — and final debate is scheduled to take place on October 22nd, saying it’s “scheduled” is about as far as we’re willing to go …
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Quibi, the short-form streaming service founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg, is shutting down after six months, as Wall Street Journal reports. Launched in April, Quibi’s shows were designed to be watched on a phone, with all episodes, called Chapters, running less than 10 minutes. It kicked off with two dozen shows. …
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