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Last December, Nick Carpenter had an existential experience onstage. He was standing with the band Dawes, screaming along as they performed their signature song, 2009’s “When My Time Comes.” The moment made Carpenter, who sings and writes songs under the name Medium Build, think about his deepest fears and goals as an artist — namely, about coming to terms with the level of popularity you’ve been gifted rather than constantly worrying about it.

“There’s a huge fear of: If I stopped working, will it all go away?” says Carpenter,...

“The Beach Boys” is a new documentary feature, directed by Frank Marshall and Thom Zimny, showcasing the American band that has sold over 100 million records, streaming May 24, 2024 on Disney+:

Formed in 1961, ‘The Beach Boys” are known for hit tracks including “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” “Surf’s Up,” “In My Room,” “Don’t Worry Baby,” “Caroline, No,” “California Girls,” and a whole lot more.

The doc delves into the band’s humble beginnings…

….with never-before-seen footage and new interviews with band members…

…including Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, David Marks and Bruce Johnston.

Interviews include Lindsey Buckingham, Janelle Monáe, Ryan Tedder, and Don Was.

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“The Beach Boys” is a new documentary feature, directed by Frank Marshall and Thom Zimny, showcasing the American band that has sold over 100 million records, streaming May 24, 2024 on Disney+:

Formed in 1961, ‘The Beach Boys” are known for hit tracks including “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” “Surf’s Up,” “In My Room,” “Don’t Worry Baby,” “Caroline, No,” “California Girls,” and a whole lot more.

The doc delves into the band’s humble beginnings…

….with never-before-seen footage and new interviews with band members…

…including Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, David Marks and Bruce Johnston.

Interviews include Lindsey Buckingham, Janelle Monáe, Ryan Tedder, and Don Was.

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For some reason, the films in the Midnight strand at this year’s Sundance Film Festival haven’t actually been screening at midnight. This is probably good news for Greg Jardin’s ingenious horror-thriller It’s What’s Inside, which, while perfect for a late-night-crowd, has perhaps too much meat on it to digest past the witching hour.

But its complexity is also its allure, and there’s so much going on beneath its many surfaces that it could conceivably become a bona fide cult hit. A Sundance launch is a mixed blessing when it comes to this, so it’s hard to say right now whether It’s What’s Inside has the crossover immediacy of a Blair Witch Project, or the long-haul slow-burn of a Donnie Darko. Whichever way it turns out, this is first-class genre filmmaking and an impressive calling card for everyone involved.

It begins with what seems at first to be a misdirect,...

Of course Sza’s Sos was the album I played the most in 2023 — but remember, it came out in December 2022 and I ranked it second on last year’s list of top albums, obviously under Beyoncé’s Renaissance.

Though Sza owned the year, several great albums showed up in 2023. Here are the projects that lived rent free in my home and in my headphones.

1. Victoria Monét, Jaguar II

It’s a beautiful thing when someone working to help others achieve their dreams steps into the limelight. With Jaguar II, that’s Victoria Monét. The songwriter behind hits for Ariana Grande and others has been releasing incredible music for years — check out 2018’s Life After Love, Pt. 2 and 2020’s Jaguar if you’re just arriving at her fan club — but she’s finally at the forefront, and her major label debut album is a masterpiece. She’s bold and bombastic on “On My Mama,...

Love is patient, love is kind, love is messy and love can sometimes really fuck you up. On his confessional third studio album, Something to Give Each Other, Troye Sivan explores all the ways that love can be shared — and taken away — while offering a buoyant rallying cry for the brokenhearted.

An ode to queerness and reinvention, Something is a pristine slice of pop heaven underscored by hints of longing and sadness. Sivan has spoken at length about how he struggled in the aftermath of a bad breakup, but on his new album,...

It was 20 years ago this month that Jack Black put on a bow tie, walked into a prep school, and told a bunch of fourth graders to get the Led out. His star turn as the lovable loser in Richard Linklater’s School of Rock helped the film gross nearly $20 million when it opened, breaking the record for music-themed comedies at the time. Over the years, it’s inspired a hit Broadway musical, a TV show, and a children’s book, and helped popularize actual School of Rock programs for...

God only knows it was a matter of time until the Recording Academy picked the Beach Boys as the recipient of one of its annual all-star tributes, and the group’s legacy isn’t done any shame with “A Grammy Salute to the Beach Boys,” airing Sunday night at 8 Et/Pt on CBS (and for on-demand streaming on Paramount+). No wrong harmonies are struck, literally or figurative, in a two-hour show that starts out feeling a little bit by-the-numbers but eventually lands on a series of knockout covers fit for a Wilson.

Are you surprised that Brandi Carlile would be the highlight of a tribute special? Then come out from under your rock and do stay up late enough to catch both of her performances on the show, since she is one of a handful of artists granted both solo and duet slots in the setlist. First in the running order,...

In honor of the Beach Boys’ 60th anniversary, and after they were named the recipients of the Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award, a special tribute event airs this weekend. “A Grammy Salute to the Beach Boys” was pre-recorded at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles in February, and viewers have the opportunity to watch it from home now. Of course, Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, David Marks, and Bruce Johnston were in attendance at the event. Plus, there is a jam-packed slate of performers lined up, covering the band’s biggest songs. Don’t miss out when the special event airs on Sunday, April 9 beginning at 8 p.m. You can watch CBS with a 5-Day Free Trial of Directv Stream. You can also watch with Hulu Live TV, Fubo, Paramount Plus, or YouTube TV.

How to Watch A Grammy Salute to the Beach Boys When: Sunday, April 9, 2023 at 8:...

‘A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys’

The Recording Academy’s celebrating the 60th anniversary of The Beach Boys with A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys. Airing on CBS on Sunday, April 9, 2023, the special will feature performances of the band’s classic hits by artists including Charlie Puth, John Legend, Weezer, and Brandi Carlile. (Full lineup below.)

Two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks, Sir Elton John, and Bruce Springsteen will also participate in the special, along with John Stamos (an occasional member of The Beach Boys), Jimmy Jam, and Drew Carey.

The Beach Boys and their So. California surfer vibe burst onto the pop music scene in the early 1960s. The band’s original lineup included brothers Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Dennis Wilson, the only surfer in the group, passed away on December 28, 1983. Carl Wilson, the youngest brother, died of lung cancer on February 6, 1998.

Brian Wilson,...

“He’s a talker” is a phrase that has never been used to describe Brian Wilson, then — in the Beach Boys’ original 1960s heyday — or especially now. So director Brent Wilson might have been taking on one of the more quixotic filmmaking quests of all time when he set out to make a documentary that would consist primarily of pulling thoughts and memories out of one of the great musical geniuses of the past century, whose shyness with interviews and mental health struggles are well known. That such a movie — “Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road” — not only exists but provides real windows into its subject’s inner world seems almost incalculable.

Today, Brent Wilson (no relation) is in Brian Wilson’s upstairs music room in a house overlooking the San Fernando Valley, holding court to talk about the doc and some new music therein. The singer, who has had multiple...

When the idea of “pandemic movies” becoming a sort of subgenre was formed and necessitated by global conditions, there was a groan that could be heard around the world. We know how this goes. Artists will jump on gimmicky opportunities to shallowly explore interior space and entrapment. It became a cliché before any movie was even made. Yet some great artists found a way to make unique, memorable studies of the current moment. Mati Diop’s In My Room used interior space and feelings of inability to escape to explore monotonous life. Rob Savage’s clever Host turned entrapment into a nightmare of computer-aided terror. The latest film from Portugal’s Maureen Fazandeiro and Miguel Gomes is an exercise in how art itself––and, by virtue, the people involved in making it––has been changed by the pandemic.

The Tsugua Diaries are essentially a recounting of both the narrative arc...

In a grand act of trolling, Laura Jane Grace will be performing a solo set at Philadelphia’s Four Seasons Total Landscaping, the groundskeeping company that infamously hosted a press conference for former President Donald Trump’s campaign in what appeared to be a logistical blunder. (Prior to the event, reporters and the general public assumed it would be hosted at the Four Seasons Hotel.)

The show will take place on Saturday, August 21st, and will also feature a performance from Brendan Kelly of the Lawrence Arms.

“This will be...

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: George Segal and Elliot Gould in California Split (1974). Actor George Segal, a "defining face of 1970s Hollywood" known for his roles in films like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Robert Altman's California Split, has died. The 2021 Jury and Special Award winners of the 28th SXSW Film Festival have been announced, with winners including Megan Park's The Fallout and Jeremy Workman's Lily Topples the World. Recommended VIEWINGFor the series A One-Woman Confessional: Eight Films by Cecilia Mangini, Another Gaze's streaming project Another Screen has also made available a video of Mangini and Agnès Varda's first meeting in 2011. Metrograph's official trailer for Claire Denis' L'Intrus, her 2004 adaptation of an essay by philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. The film will be available at the cimema's virtual theatre from March 26 to April 8. A fan-made...

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts have dropped previously unreleased live shows via the streaming platform Nugs.net.

Jett kicked off the partnership with three concerts spanning her 40-year career: a show from Houston, Texas, in 1983; a Columbus, Ohio, concert from 2015; and a 2018 show that took place at Hellfest in Clisson, France. All three shows were released on audio and video, which you can subscribe here to access.

Jett and her band will perform at next month’s virtual Light of Day benefit concert alongside Jesse Malin, Low Cut Connie, Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers,...

Americana duo Shovels & Rope have teamed up with singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten for a mesmerizing version of the Beach Boys’ “In My Room,” part of a new covers collection. Busted Jukebox Volume 3 will be released February 5th via Dualtone and marks married collaborators Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst’s third installment of reinterpreted songs.

In true Busted Jukebox fashion, Shovels & Rope’s take on “In My Room” is charmingly left-of-center, beginning with a strummed 12-string guitar and piling on layers of instrumentation, including snare drum and some low-end buzz,...

Ani Difranco tears through songs from her upcoming album Revolutionary Love in the latest installment of In My Room.

“I am taking this mission very literally,” Difranco says of the series title. “We are in my room — I will show you my room.” She turns the camera to show more of her New Orleans home, revealing a brick wall and a copy of Time magazine with Muhammed Ali on the cover, resting on a shelf.

Sitting with her acoustic guitar, Difranco kicks off with “Crocus,” the final track from Revolutionary Love.

Black Pumas performed their Grammy-nominated track, “Colors,” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Tuesday, January 19th.

To complement the song’s psychedelic soul, the Austin duo, their backing band, and a trio of singers delivered the track on a soundstage done up to recall the sets of music performance shows from the Sixties and Seventies. With some monochromatic, Mondrian-esque squares and rectangles floating against the beige backdrop, Black Pumas frontman Eric Burton crooned in his falsetto, “All my favorite colors/My sisters and my brothers/See ’em like no other/All my favorite colors.

Steve Earle shared a trio of songs from his new album, J.T., on his second appearance on Rolling Stone’s In My Room series.

J.T., which was released earlier this month, finds Earle paying tribute to his son, Justin Townes Earle, who died from a probable drug overdose in August at the age of 38. Setting up in the kitchen of his New York City home, Earle spoke earnestly about the devastating loss, but said making J.T. — which features covers of 10 Townes Earle songs — turned out to be...

The physical experience of the cinema in 2020 has been a fragmented stop and start scenario. Not being able to visit the cinema has been discouraging, but in putting this mix together I was reminded, pandemic aside, there have been new movies worth getting excited about and distinctive music and sounds to accompany them. Over the 1 hour, 39 minute run time this mix stops and starts in different mood zones, symmetrical to the year it represents. Between pieces of original score and soundtrack are voices and sounds, sometimes of hope, sometimes more sinister. Meandering in pace, this mix is a snapshot of feelings, as quickly as they come they move into different territory. We open with extracts from Garrett Bradely’s Time, these echoes of childhood and family swirl forward years as if inside a sonic time capsule. We hear voices weave in and out, “lots of things changed since the beginning of this tape.

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.

Rufus Wainwright, like many artists this year, was forced to reconfigure his plans after the coronavirus pandemic delayed the release date of his new album, Unfollow the Rules, his first proper pop effort since 2012. But the singer-songwriter didn’t let that hiccup slow him down at all: Even before the album’s belated arrival, he launched a daily livestream series,...

Aimee Mann celebrated the 20th anniversary of Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo by playing tracks for Rolling Stone’s In My Room.

Released in 2000, many of the album’s songs were featured in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia. On Friday, Mann will honor the album’s anniversary with a vinyl-only reissue via Record Store Day’s Black Friday event.

Sitting down with a guitar in Los Angeles, Mann performed “Nothing Is Good Enough” and “Save Me.” She closed with “Philly Sinks,” off her most recent album,...

To celebrate Friday’s release of Grandaddy’s The Sophtware Slump ….. on a wooden piano — a 20th anniversary-celebrating, piano-only reworking of the band’s classic 2000 LP — frontman Jason Lytle plays a trio of Grandaddy tracks for the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s In My Room series.

In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Lytle discussed The Sophtware Slump reissue as well as rerecording the album on his titular “wooden piano,” a decision made in part due to the coronavirus quarantine.

“Luckily I have a piano here in my living room which is my beloved,...

Exclusive: This year’s Oxbelly Labs has set creative advisors including directors Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann), Mati Diop (Atlantics), Ulrich Köhler (In My Room) and Lulu Wang (The Farewell), as well as producer-seller Michael Weber, founder of The Match Factory.

The Lab is designer to offer promising international filmmakers the opportunity to work on their first or second feature script, as well as workshop and direct one scene from it, with guidance from industry mentors.

Led by Oxbelly’s artistic director and Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari (Attenberg), the Lab is being hosted online this year.

Returning creative advisors include Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread), Michael Almereyda (Tesla), Ritesh Batra (Photograph), Lisa Cholodenko (Olive Kitteridge), Willem Dafoe (Tommaso), Naomi Foner (Running On Empty), Nick Kroll (Big Mouth), Jeff Nichols (Loving), Olivier Père and Eva Stefani (Manuscript).

The Labs were established...

Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Mati Diop's In My Room is now exclusively showing in the Mubi library. Mati Diop’s silhouette stands before five long, narrow windows. She raises the blinds of each one to reveal a cerulean dawn. Diop stops to open the fourth window and manages to knock down the blinds of the fifth one in the process. This scene of an otherwise torpid morning activity sets the tone for her recent short film, In My Room, which the French-Senegalese actress and director shot during the early days of quarantine. It’s the 20th installment of Miu Miu’s “Women’s Tales” series and she joins the likes of Agnès Varda, Lucrecia Martel, Miranda July and other directors, who created idiosyncratic shorts of their own for the fashion house. What’s particularly distinctive about In My Room is that it...

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Madeleine Lim's Sambal Belacan (1997)After two decades of censorship by the Singapore government, Madeleine Lim's 1997 film Sambal Belacan will be screened in Singapore. The film, "a personal, intertextual, and poetic document about three Southeast Asian lesbians who discuss the social and political climate of Singapore," has previously only been shown in underground viewings. Meanwhile, The Meg 2 has found its director: Ben Wheatley, whose adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca recently debuted on Netflix. Recommended VIEWINGThe official trailer for Carlo Mirabella-Davis's thriller Swallow, which follows a pregnant housewife's stomach-churning struggle for bodily autonomy. This Halloween, watch the film on Mubi. Béla Tarr's 1988 film Damnation has been restored in 4K from the original 35mm camera negative by the Hungarian National Film Institute. Co-written by frequent collaborator László Krasznahorkai, the film...

Grandaddy have shared their “wooden piano” version of “Underneath the Weeping Willow” from the band’s upcoming 20th-anniversary reissue of The Sophtware Slump.

For the reissue, frontman Jason Lytle rerecorded the entire LP during quarantine on a “wooden piano,” scaling back the LP’s songs to capture “the totality of that original vision.”

“Underneath the Weeping Willow,” The Sophtware Slump’s midpoint, was already a piano ballad in its previous incarnation, but here Lytle removes the song’s electronic undertones to give it a warmer feel.

The four-lp The Sophtware Slump 20th-Anniversary Collection,...

Steve Perry has kept a low public profile ever since he shared a lockdown rendition of the 1963 Beach Boys classic “In My Room” in April, but he tells Rolling Stone that since that time, he’s been busy creating new music. “I have a studio and I’m always writing and always recording stuff,” he says. “I have lots of music, so much stuff.”

First up is an acoustic version of his 2018 comeback LP Traces that he plans to release on December 4th. “It’s eight songs from the Traces...

Thurston Moore opens up his London rehearsal space in the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s In My Room series.

The ex-Sonic Youth frontman and his band — which boasts a unique lineup of three guitars, drums, and no bass — played three songs from his latest solo album, By the Fire. But, for the most part, the band delivered the tracks as full instrumentals, not only giving the performance a true “rehearsal” vibe but also shifting the focus to the dense sonic expanses contained in songs like “Hashish” and “Siren.

A little more than a year after the release of the the Highwomen’s self-titled debut album, a new song has emerged from the star-studded sessions with producer Dave Cobb.

“Hold On,” the latest from the Nashville-by-way-of-England singer-songwriter Yola, is an uplifting soul song based on conversations the “Faraway Look” singer had with her mother when she was growing up. “Baby, hold on to the things that you love,” she belts in the chorus. “Show me who it is that you are.” The song was recorded in Nashville’s RCA...

Black Pumas perform a trio of songs from their self-titled debut on the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s In My Room series.

Eric Burton and Adrian Quesada recorded their set in a room at the Hotel Saint Cecilia in their hometown of Austin, Texas, bringing just their guitars and a microphone. Black Pumas opened their set with an extended take on “Confines,” drawing out the slow soul tune into a sparse, meditative epic complete with a delicate solo from Quesada and a gripping vocal turn from Burton as he...

Curated streaming service Mubi and Miu Miu, the Italian high-fashion brand, have partnered to make “Atlantics” writer-director Mati Diop’s newest film, “In My Room,” available to stream worldwide following its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 6. The 20-minute film is part of an ongoing series of short films commissioned by Miu Miu, titled Women’s Tales, which embraces the “many complexities and contradictions” that make up the experiences of women in the 21st century.

The nine-year-old series features films that are directed by some of the most renowned female filmmakers, including Lucrecia Martel, Haifaa Al-Mansour, Agnès Varda, Ava DuVernay, Naomi Kawase, Lynne Ramsay, and of course Diop, whose feature debut made history when “Atlantics” premiered at Cannes in 2019, winning the Grand Prix. Diop became the first Black woman to direct a film featured in the festival’s Competition section. “Atlantics” was also selected as Senegal’s...

Parallel section modelled on Cannes Directors’ Fortnight marks 17th edition this year.

Giornate degli Autori’s (GdA) new artistic director Gaia Furrer makes Venice Film Festival history this year.

She’s the first woman to take the artistic reins of any of its official or parallel sections across its 70 years of existence.

Furrer admits to having mixed feelings about this achievement, telling Screen: “It’s an enormous honour but alongside a sense of pride, I also feel a certain displeasure. In all honesty, I’d prefer to be the 10th, 15th, 30th female artistic director at Venice not the first.

On the heels of releasing her solo debut Likewise, Frances Quinlan will celebrate the 15th anniversary of Hop Along with a previously unreleased EP, More Songs From 2005.

The EP contains three songs and it’s currently available via Bandcamp. The Philly singer-songwriter will also drop the band’s 2005 debut Freshman Year (released under the name Hop Along, Queen Ansleis) on streaming services for the first time.

Quinlan recorded and produced Freshman Year and Songs From 2005 in her parent’s basement in rural Pennsylvania during a summer break after her freshman...

Goo Goo Dolls have announced their first-ever holiday album, It’s Christmas All Over, out October 30th via Warner Records.

Recorded in lockdown, It’s Christmas All Over features covers of Christmas classics as well as two new original songs. The album was produced by frontman John Rzeznik, Brad Fernquist and Jimmy McGorman.

Goo Goo Dolls released Miracle Pill, their 12th studio album, last year. A recent deluxe edition features the bonus tracks “Just a Man,” “The Right Track” and “Tonight, Together.” Earlier this month, the band dropped a live...

Lucy Dacus performed intimate, stunning renditions of songs from 2018’s Historian in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s “In My Room” series.

Dacus kicked off with “The Shell,” strumming her electric guitar in front of a bookcase. “If the body and the life were two things that we could divide/I’d deliver up my shell to be filled with somebody else,” she sang.

“Oh shoot, I was gonna put up a sign saying to donate to the Btfa Collective,” she told the camera. “They’re distributing funds to...

Madrid-based indie rock group Hinds have released a cover of the Clash’s 1979 song “Spanish Bombs.”

In the original song, Joe Strummer muses on the tense political landscape of Spain in the Seventies after the 1975 death of dictator Francisco Franco. Hinds revamp the song with a spooky, lo-fi jangle wholly their own — as well as glimmers of authentic Castellano.

“We’ve always loved doing covers. Maybe ’cause it’s the way we started, or maybe because there are so many good songs in the world already that we wish we had written,...

Cam delivers an upbeat rendition of her latest single “Classic” as part of Rolling Stone‘s In My Room performance series, presented by Gibson.

The hard-to-pigeonhole singer-songwriter performs the effervescent gem about lasting relationships backed by two guitarists and a drum track. “They don’t make ’em like this anymore,” she sings, wearing a red shirt with “Lady” stitched on the chest. Even without producer Jack Antonoff’s immersive production, it’s a transformative listening experience. She also sings the meditative “Redwood Tree,” another track off her upcoming second album The Otherside,...

Ellie Goulding shared an intimate two-song set, featuring performances of “Flux” and “Power,” for the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s In My Room series.

The singer delivered her performance from a studio space in Oxford, England, where she was accompanied by a pianist named James. The simple set-up was particularly fitting for “Flux,” with Goulding recreating the potent piano power ballad from her most recent studio album, Brightest Blue, giving it some extra atmospheric touches with pre-programmed backing vocals.

For her rendition of “Power,” though (another track off Brightest...

Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori), the independent Venice Film Festival sidebar that is under the new leadership of artistic director Gaia Furrer this year, has announced its line-up of titles, including a feature directed by artist Bruce Labruce and new shorts from Atlantics filmmaker Mati Diop and Mug director Malgorzata Skumowksa.

From more a thousand submissions, the programming team have whittled it down to just 28 titles. The event’s competition is comprised of 10 features and will open with the premiere of Kamir Aïnouz’s Honey Cigar. Also screening is Saint-Narcisse, the first feature film from Canadian artist Bruce Labruce, which plays out of competition.

Miu Miu Women’s Tales, a strand focused on “female creativity”, will feature two new short films from Mati Diop (In My Room) and Malgorzata Skumowksa (Nightwalk).

“In an objectively challenging year that will go down as unique in the annals of the Venice Film Festival,...

The Venice Film Festival’s independently run Venice Days section has unveiled its lineup of 10 competition entries, nine of which are world premieres.

The lineup also includes a mix of buzz titles from known and emerging talent, characterized this year by an accent on Eastern Europe, as well as the section’s customary strong representation of female directors.

Hotly anticipated queer comedy fantasy “Saint-Narcisse” by Canadian artist-turned-filmmaker Bruce Labruce and queer romance drama “My Tender Matador,” directed by Chile’s Rodrigo Sepúlveda Urzúa — and set during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship — are among the standouts, as are shorts by French-Senegalese director Mati Diop (“Atlantics”) and Poland’s Malgorzata Szumowska (“Body”), which will unspool as part of the Prada-commissioned Miu Miu Women’s Tales, a series of short films directed by women.

The opener will be French/Algerian director Kamir Aïnouz’s promising feature debut “Honey Cigar,” which was developed with...

Bruce Labruce’s Saint-Narcisse to play out of competition.

Venice’s Giornate Degli Autori, now under the stewardship of Gaia Furrer, has announced its official selection under the title The Days Of Courage in a nod to the power and creativity of filmmaking amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The selection of the 17th edition, which like the concurrent Venice Film Festival will run as a physical event, includes Bruce Labruce’s out of competition closing film Saint-Narcisse and a short film from Atlantics director Mati Diop.

Kamir Aïnouz’s Honey Cigar (pictured) will open the competition, a 10-strong field that includes...

Shamir has announced that he will release a self-titled album on October 2nd and has shared a second single from the record, following the quarantine-themed track “On My Own.”

The new song, “I Wonder,” comes with a visual inspired by love, climate change and the work of Keith Haring, according to a press release from the artist. It shows Shamir singing a front of a blank wall, with projections of two other Shamirs singing beside him.

The upcoming album Shamir will reimagine the sounds of Nineties rock and pop, with...

John Doe ventured out to the hill country outside of Austin, Texas to perform stripped-down versions of three X tracks for the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s In My Room series.

The musician filmed the set on the scenic patio of a house belonging to his friend Kevin Smith, who accompanied Doe on the upright bass. While Doe lamented the absence of his bandmates Exene Cervenka and Billy Zoom (both of whom are based in California), there was still plenty of ramshackle energy in the barebones arrangements he and Smith came up with.

Rufus Wainwright came by Rolling Stone’s video studio earlier this year to share the stories behind his greatest recordings in a new episode of “My Life in Songs.”

The Canadian-American singer-songwriter, whose new album, Unfollow the Rules, is out July 10th, talks candidly about early conflicts with his late mother, Kate McGarrigle (“Beauty Mark”), and his father, Loudon Wainwright III (“Dinner at Eight”); his wild twenties in downtown New York (“Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk,” “Poses”); and his life today with his husband, Jörn Weisbrodt, and daughter Viva.

Unfollow the...

Singer-guitarist Marcus King has announced the new livestream Four of a Kind, Live From Nashville, a full-production performance series that gets underway July 13th and concludes August 3rd. With a new theme for each of its four weekly episodes, the series will include such guest artists as Billy Strings, Mastodon’s Brent Hinds, and Devon Gilfillian.

The first installment on July 13th will feature King and his band performing the entirety of his 2020 album El Dorado, which was recorded by Dan Auerbach in Nashville. The second episode, on July 20th,...

Charlie Puth performed intimate, stripped-down renditions of his songs in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s ‘In My Room,’ a series in which artists perform from home while in quarantine.

“I’m gonna perform them the way that I originally thought of them,” Puth tells the camera. “Not a whole lot of production, no drums or anything like that. Just me on my piano. I hope you like it very much.”

Bookended with “Attention” and “How Long” from 2018’s Voicenotes was “Girlfriend,” Puth’s new single. “Baby, would you...

Broadway may still be shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but fans hoping to catch the hit musical Hamilton can stream it online beginning July 3rd on Disney+. As TV critic Alan Sepinwall recently wrote of this new filmed version of the stage production: “Each song, each scene seems meant for now. It’s not that Lin-Manuel Miranda and his collaborators were prescient, but that we’re a nation built on tragedy as much as triumph, and history has a nasty way of repeating itself. Still, by changing the...

For our latest edition of In My Room, Boy George shares an intimate performance — accompanied by guitarist Kevan Frost — from a private spot in London.

While wearing a bright red hat and a blazer with various patches, he performs “Frantic,” as well as an acoustic version of his song “Isolation,” followed by a cover of Mary Gauthier’s “Mercy Now.”

Boy George released his single “Clouds” and “Isolation” earlier this year. He’d written the latter song before the coronavirus pandemic caused social distancing rules to be put in place around the world,...

Haim are the latest band to perform for NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series from home. The sisters tuned in remotely from their separate Los Angeles abodes to play three tracks from Women in Music Pt. III, their upcoming third album.

Leading off with “The Steps,” Haim jammed out on guitar, bass and bongos before performing “I Know Alone” and the Wimpiii era’s first single, “Summer Girl,” released last July. For the last song, Henry Solomon joined the trio for the song’s signature saxophone line.

Women in Music Pt.