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As The Rocky Horror Picture Show prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary this fall, photographer Mick Rock‘s (1948–2021) long-lost archives are being unveiled in the new coffee table book Rocky Horror: A Behind the Scenes Look at the Cult Classic. Published by Harper/Pop, the book will be released on September 30th and is available to pre-order here. This volume brings together rarely-seen photographs and intimate behind-the-scenes moments, a visual time capsule of the film that redefined camp, glam, and queerness on screen. Best known as “the man who shot the seventies” through his iconic images of David Bowie, Lou Reed, Queen, Blondie, and Iggy Pop, Rock was the only...

Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan have shared a tribute to their friend and frequent collaborator, Robert Wilson, the renowned theater director, playwright, and artist, who died late last month at the age of 83.

“Bob was among the artists who see, feel, hear, and sense the world in a way that most don’t experience it and want that experience to be shared and to connect others also immersed and suspended between the breaths of Life,” Waits and Brennan wrote. “Bob set course for the unseen portals of his imagination and gathered brave,...

If you’re hoping to see David Byrne reunite with his former bandmates in Talking Heads, you’re not alone — but you probably shouldn’t expect it to happen anytime soon. In his expansive new Rolling Stone Interview, Byrne let fans of his old band down gently.

“You can’t turn the clock back,” he told Rolling Stone. “When you hear music at a certain point in your life, it means a lot. But it doesn’t mean you can go back there and make it happen again.”

Byrne is...

The Lemonheads have released a new song, “The Key of Victory,” as the latest preview of the band’s first new album in 19 years, Love Chant. Stream it below.

Recorded at Abbey Road, “The Key of Victory” was co-written by frontman Evan Dando with Rum Shebeen’s David Ashby, and features Apollo Nove on guitar and harmonies from Erin Rae. Dando’s gruff vocals take the forefront, as he sings about being true to himself and others.

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“It’s quiet, it’s bitchin’. It’s pretty and it’s modal,” Dando said about the track in a statement, revealing that it was inspired by Lou Reed. “I was trying to do like a ‘Street Hassle’ vibe, you know?”

Love Chant will be supported by an international tour kicking off next week with a series of headlining shows and festival appearances across the UK and Europe,...

Amy Berg’s It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley relates Jeff Buckley’s meteoric rise and early death in the 1990s through the adoring and wounded voices of his family, friends, and bandmates. Berg leavens their wistful memories with personal and concert footage, along with Buckley’s notebook jottings, ramblingly funny and emotional voicemails, and jagged animations that are meant to simulate his manic and at times self-destructive mindset.

The latter sections featuring Buckley’s words hint at the suggestive alliterativeness used by Brett Morgen in his own documentaries but are shoehorned into an impactful but at times generic portrait of another gone-too-soon artistic genius. Skillfully woven into the narrative for heightened impact, songs like “Last Goodbye” and Buckley’s famous cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” say more about the singer’s vocal abilities than most of the film’s talking heads.

Born in 1966 and raised by his mother,...

Robert Wilson, the experimental theater stage director, playwright and choreographer whose career spanned decades of collaborations with such equally visionary artists as Philip Glass, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, William Burroughs and even Lady Gaga, died Thursday in Water Mill, NY, following a brief but acute illness. He was 83.

His death was announced on his official website.

“We are heartbroken to announce the passing of Robert M. Wilson, artist, theater and opera director, architect, set and lighting designer, visual artist, and founder of The Watermill Center,” the center posted on its website. “While facing his diagnosis with clear eyes and determination, he still felt compelled to keep working and creating right up until the very end. His works for the stage, on paper, sculptures and video portraits, as well as The Watermill Center, will endure as Robert Wilson’s artistic legacy.

“There will be memorials for Robert Wilson held in the...

Britain, the 1980s. Thatcher. Black Monday. Riots. Strikes. Racism. In 1984, George Orwell’s 1984 became a bestseller again, slotting right into the nightmarish dystopia it had predicted. As unemployment figures soared, heroin addiction spread, as did HIV and AIDS. It was bloody miserable.

Then: 1988. Ecstasy, a drug promoting love and togetherness, arrived in the U.K., brought back from Ibiza — legend has it — by members of the Mancunian rock band New Order. The Second Summer of Love began. Two years later, Thatcher’s 15-year prime ministerial reign was over. Brit-pop happened.

Survivor player Dave Wright just got married, with one of his fellow alums from the hit reality competition show serving as the officiant. Dave first appeared in Survivor season 33, subtitled Millennials vs. Gen X, where he placed fourth and became the final member of the Jury. He then returned five seasons later for Survivor: Edge of Extinction. While he made it to the merge again, Dave didn't last nearly as long, becoming the 10th player voted out.

Survivor's Dave Wright is now married, and he found the perfect person to officiate his wedding.

Just ahead of his wedding, Dave took to Instagram to share how excited he was about getting married. "Tomorrow I get to marry this amazing woman," he said in his caption, which was posted alongside a video featuring his then-fiancée Laura. Dave added Lou Reed song "Perfect Day." Alongside a red heart emoji, he concluded his...

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at Lou Reed and Metallica's The View, directed by Darren Aronofsky. Darren Aronofsky is known for his swerves as a filmmaker. With the impending release of Caught Stealing, which seems to be set in fairly Guy Ritchie-esque territory, it is time to look back on the sole music video that Aronofsky made, that is for better or worse typical Aronofsky, in that he went for broke. Aronofsky has made an eclectic list of films, but if there is one thing that is tying, let's say, the dance school horror of Black Swan, to the biblical fantasy epic Noah, to the gritty realism of The...

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As a film critic, the question I get asked more than any other is, “What’s your favorite movie?” For decades, I’ve given the same answer. But in the last 10 years or so, when I say, “My favorite movie is ‘Nashville,'” I always have to wonder if the person I’m talking to has even heard of it. Many have not. A handful have heard of it in an “Oh, yeah, right” sort of way. The rest, a distinct minority, know just what I’m talking about. I can always tell by the look in someone’s eye when I’ve stumbled upon a fellow “Nashville” believer.

I first saw Robert Altman’s teeming, sprawling, exultant, tragic, transporting masterpiece, which came out 50 years ago this summer, when I was a freshman in college. The film had an effect on me that’s hard to describe. I didn’t...

Alex Ross Perry’s intriguing documentary about 90s band Pavement offers a kind of cine-quadriptych, whose effect is to obscure clarity

If ever a film-maker and a band were a match in indie heaven it is lo-fi writer-director Alex Ross Perry and 90s band Pavement, from Stockton, California (described here as “the Cleveland of California”); the latter made critically adored albums throughout the 1990s with comparisons to the Fall and Lou Reed, while never signing to a major label. Now Perry has made a film about Pavement and it seems to be his intention here to avoid, strenuously and at all costs, obviousness – and perhaps the most clunkingly obvious thing for any newbie to ask about is the name. Pavement as opposed to Sidewalk because of a Brit affectation? No: just a functional name chosen almost at random and one that sounded right.

Intriguingly, but finally a bit frustratingly, Perry...

FX’s The Bear Season 4 has been out for a week streaming on Hulu.

The series, which was renewed for a fifth season yesterday, has become known for its needle drops as well as its rotation of guest stars each season. While she didn’t have a song featured in Season 1, the show has come to include at least one Taylor Swift song since Season 2, because it wouldn’t be a heartfelt moment for Ebon Moss Bachrach’s Richie and his daughter without help from the songstress.

Season 2 of the show contained “Love Story” in the seventh episode, “Forks,” and Swift’s “Long Live” was featured in Season 3.

Find the full soundtrack to The Bear Season 4 — including songs from St. Vincent, Oasis, Van Morrison, Paul Simon, Bishop Briggs, The Ronettes, Pretenders and more.

Episode 1: “Groundhogs”

“That’s The Way” by Led Zeppelin “I Got You Babe” by Sonny and...

Dries Van Noten SS26 redefines menswear with a collection that blends relaxed elegance and innovative details for a unique style.

The SS26 menswear collection by Dries Van Noten, designed by Julian Klausner, redefines contemporary fashion with a distinctive mix of calm and chaos that captures the essence of the moment just after nightfall. This offering, called ‘Just a Perfect Day’, presents a relaxed aesthetic that combines elegance and comfort without sacrificing style.

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Klausner breaks away from traditional rigidity by playing with contrasts between formal garments and casual pieces. Classic tailoring transforms into soft, flowing silhouettes: slightly loose jackets, mid-calf shorts and fitted fabrics that allow freedom of movement. This reinterpretation of elegance incorporates unexpected elements such as tuxedo jackets paired with sports trousers or cummerbunds used to hold casual garments, creating fresh and versatile looks.

Fabrics play a fundamental role in the collection, with materials...

Holed up in an attempt to go cold turkey before a crucial race, once-renowned jockey Remo (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) asks his pregnant partner and fellow jockey Abril (Úrsula Corberó), “What can I do to make you love me again?” To which she replies, “Die and be reborn.” Accordingly, director Luis Ortega sets out with Kill the Jockey to tell a prototypical sports-movie comeback story, albeit through far from conventional means.

Set in Buenos Aires, the film is a sports movie in the same way that Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo is a western. It could just as easily be shelved under crime drama, rock mockumentary, or ghost story. While Ortega’s style doesn’t quite transcend the influence of filmmakers such as Lynch, Godard, Fellini, and Almodóvar, it melds them with surprising assurance. Kill the Jockey’s originality consists not just in taking the clichéd metaphor of rebirth literally, but...

Two years ago this month, while the industry was in the thick of the dual writers and actors strikes, Range Media Partners and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger, principles of the busy production banner Automatik, decided to tie the knot. In 2024, the fledgling film and production division of Range Studios enjoyed a banner year by any measure.

Searchlight Pictures’ “A Complete Unknown” scored at the mainstream box office ($140 million worldwide) and had a strong award season ride capped by eight Oscar nominations.

Meanwhile, Neon’s “Longlegs” proved that there’s still plenty of box office gold to be mined from distinctive indie films. The horror film that finished out with $127 million in worldwide box office ($74 million domestic) also vaulted the director Osgood Perkins to a new level of industry recognition. Having that kind of career-building relationship with filmmakers is important to Kavanaugh-Jones and Berger, regardless of whether the talent is...

In the late 1970s, many of music’s top tastemakers felt sure Garland Jeffreys would become the next big thing. Rolling Stone named him the “most promising artist” of 1977. The prestigious PBS program Soundstage predicted he would become “the next performer to lay claim to superstardom.” And powerful radio stations like New York’s Wnew-fm kept his songs “35 Millimeter Dreams” and “Wild in the Streets” in heavy rotation. The sound that drew all this praise was marked by vocals that recalled the sardonic cadence of Jeffreys’ close friend Lou Reed,...

On June 5, the IndieWire Honors Spring 2025 ceremony will celebrate the creators and stars responsible for some of the most impressive and engaging work of this TV season. Curated and selected by IndieWire’s editorial team, IndieWire Honors is a celebration of the creators, artisans, and performers behind television well worth toasting. We’re showcasing their work with new interviews leading up to the Los Angeles event.

A conversation with Natasha Lyonne is to experience a gravel-voiced one-woman film school with a carousel of cultural references that range from “The Long Goodbye” to Lou Reed to quantum physics.

But what makes Lyonne singular (and why she’s being recognized with the Maverick Award at this season’s IndieWire Honors) is more than her encyclopedic mind or her distinct creative stamp. It’s her ability to turn lived experience into genre-busting, soul-searching, radically original storytelling.

In a TV landscape dominated by serialization,...

The best and brightest in a field always gravitate toward each other, whether that’s to smush genitals together or combine their powers to become something even greater. They also tend to be weird as hell, though, so sometimes, their collaborations only become something seriously strange.

5 SuperHeavy

Eurythmics keyboardist Dave Stewart got the idea for SuperHeavy “when he was in his house in the hills of Jamaica, above Saint Ann Parish, listening to three or four sound systems blasting at the same time, the music wafting into the air and blending together.” Not realizing this was unhinged behavior, he recruited Mick Jagger, R&b singer Joss Stone, reggae producer Damian Marley and Bollywood composer A.R. Rahman, and to his credit, the result does sound like someone is playing a bunch of different songs at once. Marley didn’t even seem to know how he got there, having been “pulled into...

Arlo Willner, the 20-year-old son of late Saturday Night Live music sketch producer Hal Willner and wife Sheila Rogers, an Emmy-winning producer who has worked for Saturday Night Live, The Late Late Show and The Late Show With David Letterman, has been charged with attempted murder after a knife attack outside of a bar in Manhattan over the weekend.

Willner was arrested at 3:35 a.m. after he allegedly stabbed three people outside of Sally’s Bar at 129 Lexington Ave.

According to a criminal complaint obtained by the New York Post, Willner allegedly approached three men outside of the bar and asked to buy cocaine. After he was told “this was not the place for that,” the Post notes, Willner allegedly pulled out a knife and slashed one victim in the neck, another in the abdomen and a third in the shoulder.

The attack came to an end, the Post reports,...

While the future certainly didn’t look bright for Jane’s Addiction following an onstage fight between singer Perry Farrell and guitarist Dave Navarro this past September, Navarro has seemingly put the last nail in the coffin for the legendary alt-rock band in a new interview.

As previously reported, Farrell shoved and punched Navarro onstage toward the end of Jane’s Addiction’s September 13th show at Leader Bank Pavilion in Boston, ending the concert abruptly. The singer was pulled off the guitarist by Cleary and bassist Eric Avery, who then landed a couple of punches on Farrell. It was later reported that moments later, Farrell punched Navarro again backstage, this time in the face.

The band subsequently canceled the remainder of the tour, which was the first outing featuring all four classic members of the band — Farrell, Navarro, Avery, and drummer Stephen Perkins — in 14 years. Farrell apologized for the incident,...

More than six years into the journey of bringing Candy Darling’s life story to the big screen, Hari Nef has taken matters into her own hands.

After Deadline reported in 2022 that the actress signed on to portray the LGBTQ pioneer and Andy Warhol superstar, Nef recently gave an update on the project, which she has penned after screenwriter Stephanie Kornick was originally attached in 2019.

“I want to preface everything I say about the film by saying we have zero dollars and zero cents,” she told Vogue. “We are in the very early stages of fundraising and casting.”

Nef continued, “I had to do so much research before I could even think about page one in the Final Draft script-writing software. It took me probably a year and a half to work my way up to that, but at a certain point I just had to say to myself, You’ve seen everything,...

Thom Yorke has quietly been on a bit of a tear the past year or so. In 2024, his side project the Smile — with Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood and jazz drummer Tom Skinner — put out two dazzling albums of crinkly art-rock, Wall of Eyes and Cutouts. He also recently wrapped up a short solo tour doing expansive, gripping renditions of songs from throughout his career. Now, he’s back with this engrossing little side-project detour, a collaboration with producer Mark Pritchard, whose roots in the U.K.’s experimental electronic music scene go back decades.

As much as Dead Kennedys fans would love to see the legendary punk band reunite with original singer Jello Biafra, guitarist East Bay Ray insists it’s not gonna happen, and that Biafra is to blame.

Despite long-standing animosity and contentious legal disputes, East Bay Ray told Guitar World in a new interview that he and bassist Klaus Fluoride would be open to performing with Biafra again but that the singer continues to turn down offers for a reunion (including an apparent lucrative one from Riot Fest in 2017).

“It’s not an issue for me or Klaus,” said East Bay Ray. “It’s Biafra that turns down any offers for us to do something; we don’t have any problem.”

The guitarist then referenced a lawsuit that he and his Dead Kennedys bandmates brought against Biafra in 2000 over withholding band royalties, which resulted in the singer having to pay not...

Driven by dubious metrics, fumbling with clearly baked-in blind spots and biases, in recurring corrective mode (see Sister Rosetta Tharpe) when it musters the will, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is always missing much of the real action in its attempts to canonize music that, if it sticks around long enough to be canonized, has often lost the fire if not the whole plot.

Yet somehow we still care about the Hall’s verdicts, shaking our fists, occasionally pumping them. Hell, even Lou Reed — a man with as finely...

Metallica played their first show of 2025 on Saturday night (April 19th), performing a career-spanning set at the Jma Wireless Dome in Syracuse, New York.

They Syracuse concert was one of several single-night-only shows on this spring North American run (tickets available here), as opposed to the “no repeat weekends” they’ve been playing over two nights in most cities on this ongoing “M72 World Tour.” That meant that fans at Saturday’s gig got elements of both sets in one night.

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Metallica’s 16-song set represented nine of their 10 studio albums, as they played songs from every studio LP except 2003’s St. Anger.

Frontman James Hetfield and company launched the set with a 1-2 punch from 1984’s Ride the Lightning: “Creeping Death” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” The band played three songs from 1991’s self-titled effort, aka “The Black Album,” including “Nothing Else Matters,...

“Drop Dead City” falls into a category of documentary I think of as wonkish but gripping. Produced and directed by Peter Yost and Michael Rohatyn, the film is about the financial cataclysm that hit New York City in 1975, when the powers that be figured out that the city was $6 billion in debt. There was no money to pay anyone: firefighters, cops, teachers, sanitation workers. The city walked right up to the edge of bankruptcy. (That’s not an overstatement.) Had New York City been anything but New York City — had it been a business, a family, or even another city — it likely would have declared bankruptcy. But after a prolonged logistical-ideological war about what to do, the city was deemed too big to fail.

The film’s title refers to the infamous New York Daily News headline that ran on Oct. 30, 1975 (“Ford to City: Drop Dead”). President Gerald R. Ford never actually said those words,...

New York’s a hard place to do psychedelics,” Gift frontman Tj Freda says. “It’s really intense here. Stuff’s always moving so quick, and everyone’s getting thrown around. … I’ll save the big cathartic, psychedelic experiences for really special moments.” That said, the city’s hectic pace hasn’t stopped him or his bandmates from occasionally enjoying mushrooms — “but we’re not the type of band who’s tripping our brains out and jamming,” Freda says. They just sound like they are.

On their second album, Illuminator,...

As they get more expensive, widely seen and complicatedly filmed, movie milestones are getting hit all the time. Usually, they’re the movies you’d expect: the blockbusters that sweep all the awards and land on top 10 lists for years to come. Sometimes, though, a little nothing movie can show up, make history and leave before anyone notices.

5 Rock & Rule

1983’s Rock & Rule was notable for two things: 1) somehow snagging voice talents like Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and Debbie Harry; and 2) having suspiciously good animation for a low-budget Canadian cartoon. In fact, the tale of nuclear rat-like creatures using rock music to summon the forces of evil was the first animated movie to use CGI. Unfortunately, none of that helped it to recoup even a fraction of its budget at the box office.

4 Able Edwards

By 2004, we had an entire Lord of the Rings series, so it’s...

Kirk Hammett is hard at work on his first-ever full length solo album, and unlike his debut solo EP, 2022’s Portals, it will likely feature guest vocalists, he reveals in the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. He also has a massive collection of brand-new riffs for the next Metallica album, which he expects the band to start work on within a year, shortly after the end of their current tour.

Hammett has a new book out, The Collection: Kirk Hammett, which shows off his stunning collection of vintage guitars,...

Being a world-class talent in one field is all well and good, but pulling it off more than once is just rude. It turns out, however, that people who are incredibly successful at one thing tend to be able to succeed across the board if they put their minds to it, leading us to believe those non-hyphenate geniuses are just lazy.

5 Anthony Hopkins’ Art Career

Art galleries are often happy to exhibit the finger paintings of celebrities for publicity, but Sir Hopkins is actually good. His art, which has been described by reviewers prone to this kind of language as “restless, melancholy, haunting,” has been exhibited in galleries around the world, and one painting was going for $80,000 in 2017. You can tell that’s based on quality, because if it were based on celebrity, it would be higher.

4 Gene Hackman’s Novels

As Hackman transitioned away from his acting career and...

Just four days after his surprise reunion with R.E.M. at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia, Michael Stipe performed at the annual Tibet House benefit at New York’s Carnegie Hall on a packed bill that also included Patti Smith, Jackson Browne, Laurie Anderson, Gogol Bordello, Orville Peck, Allison Russell, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Angélique Kidjo, and Tenzin Choegyal.

Stipe delivered stunning renditions of David Bowie’s 1970 classic “The Man Who Sold the World” and “No Time for Love Like Now,” which he co-wrote with the National’s Aaron Dessner...

Goodbye to David Johansen, the last jet boy standing from the New York Dolls. It wasn’t just his madman energy that helped invent punk rock — it was his warmth and soul. He got a loving send-off in the final weeks of his life, after his daughter Leah Hennessy announced that he was dying of cancer. The news inspired a worldwide outpouring of grief and gratitude. This man was a lifelong personality crisis, preaching his rock & roll gospel that posing and strutting and peacocking through life is not merely fun,...

Rare photographs from Nine Inch Nails’ legendary Self Destruct Tour will debut in the United States at special exhibitions showing in New York City and Los Angeles.

The show offers a new look at the trek, which found Nine Inch Nails touring the world between 1994 and 1996 in support of their groundbreaking second album, The Downward Spiral. The photographs were taken by Jonathan Rach, who also filmed much of the trek for Nin’s 1997 documentary/concert film, Closure.

The exhibit — spearheaded by Behind the Gallery — will arrive first in New York City,...

Record Store Day has revealed its extensive list of limited edition vinyl, box sets, and other speciality releases that will be available as part of its 2025 edition taking place on Saturday, April 12th, 2025.

This year promises exclusive releases from Post Malone (who serves as the 2025 Rsd Ambassador), Rage Against the Machine, Wu-Tang Clan, Gorillaz, Taylor Swift, Charli Xcx, The Killers, Tom Waits, and more.

You can find specifics on some of the most notable releases below, and find many more detailed at the Record Store Day website.

Post Malone’s epic Nirvana covers set from April 2020 is being released on vinyl for the first time, with proceeds benefiting MusiCares’ Addiction Recovery/Mental Health division.

Rage Against the Machine will collect completely untouched and unmixed live recordings from their first world tour on Live on Tour 1993.

Wu-Tang Clan has teamed up with producer Mathematics for a brand new album called Black Samson,...

David Edward Byrd, who created psychedelic posters for Jimi Hendrix, The Who and Grateful Dead shows and for such Broadway productions as Follies, Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar and Little Shop of Horrors, has died. He was 83.

Byrd died Monday at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, rep Jerry Digney announced. Jolino Beserra, his partner of 40 years, said on Facebook that he died of pneumonia.

One of the foremost graphic artists of 20th century pop culture, Byrd did lots of work for rock promoter Bill Graham’s Fillmore East, which opened in the East Village in Manhattan in 1968, and designed a poster for the original Woodstock festival (it turned out it wasn’t used when the event was moved).

He designed posters for The Rolling Stones’ tour of the U.S. in 1969 and The Who’s performance of their rock opera Tommy at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1971 and album covers...

Following the death of visionary auteur David Lynch, several of his films (and films about him) are now streaming completely for free and without ads, thanks to both Kanopy and The Criterion Channel. Eraserhead and Lost Highway are streaming for free on Kanopy along with the fascinating Alexandre O. Philippe documentary Lynch/Oz, which explores the director's longtime fascination with The Wizard of Oz and that film's influence on him. Meanwhile, The Criterion Channel is streaming perhaps the most intimate documentary made about the filmmaker, David Lynch: The Art Life, for free.

Separated by two decades, 1977's Eraserhead and 1997's The Lost Highway are two of Lynch's more oblique films, with the former gaining cult status and the latter, originally a failure on several fronts, becoming more appreciated over the years. Eraserhead was Lynch's first feature film after a decade of boundary-pushing shorts, and the film carries those experiments into...

“A Complete Unknown” is the rare Hollywood movie that has inspired a reckoning. Everywhere, on social media, in mainstream media, or simply on the part of so many who have seen the film, a tingling conversation is taking place — a kind of collective meditation/investigation into who Bob Dylan was, who he is, what he meant back then and what he means now. What’s striking is that very little of this is Dylan nostalgia — i.e., the boomers getting misty-eyed with self-importance about “their” beloved icon. And if that’s what it was, it would be lame. (No one would hate it more than Dylan.)

The Dylan conversation that’s been ignited is very present tense and alive, and very exploratory. It’s about the movie, but it’s bigger than the movie. It’s about everyone who has seen “A Complete Unknown,” or everyone who simply grew up with Dylan,...

David Lynch, a filmmaker who changed the actual landscape of cinema and left a legacy of masterpieces, has passed away at the age of 78. The news comes just days after the co-creator of Twin Peaks and all-around genius was evacuated from his home during the apocalyptic wildfires of Los Angeles. Born on January 20, 1946, in Missoula, Mt, the famed auteur began smoking at the eight of eight and did so for nearly 70 years. He developed serious emphysema in 2020, telling Eileen Finan of People in 2024, “In the back of every smoker’s mind is the fact that it’s unhealthy, so you’re literally playing with fire."

Related: David Lynch Gets Evacuated from His Home During LA Fires

“It can bite you. I took a chance, and I got bit,” Lynch said in that interview with People. The terrible air quality from the fires likely led to the visionary filmmaker's death. His...

Following the death of Sam Moore, many of the artists inspired by the Sam and Dave singer turned to social media to pay tribute to the soul legend.

“Rip Sam Moore. One of the last of the great Soul Men,” Steven Van Zandt wrote. “Him and Dave Prater were the inspiration for me and Johnny to start Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. An important righteous wonderful man.”

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“Sam Moore, the Soulman, one of the pioneers and greatest singers ever has left us..,” Jon Bon Jovi...

Sam Moore, who with with partner Dave Prater helped bring the sound of the church to pop music with a string of call-and-response hits as the high tenor in the famed Stax Records duo Sam & Dave, has died. He was 89.

Moore died Friday morning in Coral Gables, Florida, of complications recovering from surgery, his rep Jeremy Westby announced.

Called “the greatest of all soul duos” by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which inducted the pair in 1992, Sam & Dave worked with the songwriting/production team of Isaac Hayes and David Porter — and used Booker T & the M.G.’s and the Memphis Horns as their backing band — to produce a string of indelible rave-up hits from 1965-68.

Their combined talent produced fevered back-and-forth exchanges in “You Don’t Know Like I Know,” “Hold On, I’m Coming,” “You Got Me Hummin’,” “Soul Man” and “I Thank You.”

Along with labelmate Otis Redding,...

Some rock albums are legends that top the charts for ages or redefine genres, and some albums peak with the first song and are otherwise forgettable. Sometimes a bad album can completely tank a band's career, like the Clash's final studio album, 1985's Cut the Crap, which failed so badly it led to Joe Strummer dissolving the band.

Then there's that rare bird, the album that's so bad that critics and fans can't stand it, but that a band can somehow recover from. Some of these artists took their failures in stride and made sure to listen to the feedback from their fans, some just took a little time to sweep their mistakes under the rug, and some just continued stumbling on and managed to salvage their careers through sheer dumb luck.

Bob Dylan – Self-Portrait Columbia Records, 1970

For most of the 1960s, it seemed that Bob Dylan could do little wrong musically.

Justin Hartley as Colter Shaw and Floriana Lima as Camille Picket in ‘Tracker’ season 2 episode 8

CBS’s Tracker season two episode eight, the fall finale, opens on the streets of San Francisco. A car’s T-boned by a propane truck as a bystander films on her cell. Propane begins leaking and the car and truck are soon engulfed in flames.

Nine months later, Gina Picket’s sister, Camille (Floriana Lima), and Colter (Justin Hartley) have a drink at a bar. She asked him out, and her sister disappeared the last time they were at this bar. Camille wonders if he wishes they could return to before that happened. Colter confirms he hasn’t stopped looking for Gina, but shockingly, Camille wants him to stop. She realizes that what they had is over. Every time she sees him, she thinks of her sister.

Camille is sure Colter did what he could.

Polish art-rock band Trupa Trupa have announced their latest release: a five-song EP called Mourners, due out Feb. 21, 2025 on Glitterbeat Records. Along with this news, they’ve released a single, “Sister Ray,” whose slinky, disco-leaning groove is unlike anything you’d expect from this dark and stormy band.

Trupa Trupa are fronted by the artist, poet, and activist Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, who has dedicated his life to fighting fascism and hate through art. For obvious and regrettable reasons, this is a theme that feels more urgent than ever in the U.

The Velvet Underground were famously the band who had only a very small fanbase while they were around – but, the joke went, every single one of those fans started bands of their own. So they were massively influential, which is nice, but not usually what people start rock bands to achieve.

Koren Shadmi’s 2023 graphic novel All Tomorrow’s Parties: The Velvet Underground Story tells the story of the band in comics format. It follows Shadmi’s previous nonfiction books Lugosi and The Twilight Man , more traditional pop-culture bios of a single person, as well as a number of Shadmi’s fictional works, like Bionic . He’s been making book-length comics for more than a decade now, through a bunch of variations, and clearly has the chops to do a more complicated book like this one, with multiple main characters and a lot of faces to get right on the page.

Al Green delivers a stirring take on R.E.M.’s classic 1992 ballad “Everybody Hurts” for his latest single.

Green leans into the original’s swaying soul groove, adding a booming choir and allowing the strings to reach the heights necessary to match his still potent vocals as he sings: “Don’t throw your hand, oh no/Don’t throw your hand/If you feel like you’re alone/No, no, no, you are not alone.”

In a statement Green said when recording “Everybody Hurts,” “I could really feel the heaviness of the song,...

Soul legend Al Green is back to share his cover of R.E.M.’s 1992 hit “Everybody Hurts.”

Green definitely makes his rendition of “Everybody Hurts” his own. His signature baritone aches across the two chord groove, making his way through the verses at his own pace. Now 78-years-old, Green taps into his gospel roots while also fueling the song with a lifetime of experience.

“While we were in the studio recording ‘Everybody Hurts,’ I could really feel the heaviness of the song and I wanted to inject a little touch of hope and light into it,” Green says in a statement. “There’s always a presence of light that can break through those times of darkness.”

R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe even lent his approval. “Speaking on behalf of the entire band — we could not be more honored, more flattered, more humbled,” he said. “This is an epic moment for us.” Stream...

Dustin Pittman with Anne-Katrin Titze and Ed Bahlman holding up New York After Dark

In the first instalment of our conversation with photographer extraordinaire, Dustin Pittman, and music producer and 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman, we start out with Gloria Swanson at her apartment (star of Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard opposite William Holden), the early days with Danny Fields, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, Mick Jagger (at Madison Square Garden), Patricia Field, Sex And The City, Susan Seidelman, Halston and the Halstonettes, Diana Vreeland, Liza Minnelli and US First Lady Betty Ford at Studio 54, the Vivienne Westwood, Malcolm McLaren connection to Mariann Marlowe and Frankie Savage’s Ian’s, staying with The Pretenders in London, Lucy Sante and her books, the shop 99, Max’s Kansas City, Ungaro’s, Régine’s, The Odeon, Lutèce or La Grenouille, and Dustin Pittman: New York...

Paul Morrissey, the avant-garde filmmaker who worked on Andy Warhol movies including Chelsea Girls, Flesh, Trash and others who also managed The Velvet Underground in the mid-1960s, died Monday. He was 86.

His archivist Michael Chaiken told The New York Times that Morrissey died of pneumonia in a Manhattan hospital.

Morrissey collaborated with Warhol on several ultralow-budget features focused on the NYC subculture, starting with 1965’s My Hustler through 1974’s Blood for Dracula aka Andy Warhol’s Dracula. Their experimental movies — on which Morrissey often served in roles also including cinematographer and editor — often featured non-pro actors including Joe Dallesandro and Candy Darling and generally were ad-libbed rather than scripted.

Their biggest commercial success — a relative term — was with Trash, the 1970 pic starring Dallesandro as and junkie gigolo and Holly Woodlawn as his wife. Other Morrissey-Warhol films include 1968’s Lonesome Cowboys and 1972’s Heat and Women in Revolt. The duo...

Paul Morrissey, a fixture of New York’s cinema scene whose collaborations with Andy Warhol in the ’60s and ’70s reinvented the American underground and made local legends of amateur actors and transgender performers, died Monday at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 86.

Morrissey’s death was confirmed by archivist Michael Chaiken to the New York Times, which reported that the cause was pneumonia.

Warhol and Morrissey were first introduced in 1965, when the former had begun to tinker with experimental films in his infamous loft hub, dubbed The Factory. Working on budgets of under $10,000, the pair completed a series of features, reaching the most commercial success with a trilogy starring Warhol fixture and gay sex symbol Joe Dallesandro that consisted of “Flesh,” “Trash” and “Heat.” Warhol served as producer, while Morrissey’s cinéma vérité direction and largely ad-libbed scripts provided his leads, such as Dallesandro, Jackie Curtis, Holly Woodlawn and Viva,...

At 14, Coco Jones was catapulted into stardom thanks to a role as teen singing sensation Roxie in the 2012 Disney movie Let It Shine. That rush of fame was short-lived. Jones was signed then dropped from a label before she was 16. The industry didn’t know what to do with the young girl with the big voice. She was too sultry, too confident, too Coco.

But in that short time, Jones had already managed to touch another girl halfway around the world. A young Nigerian named Oyinkansola Sarah Aderibigbe was looking...