Month: September 2023

Candid Camera “Meg loves Justin… It was their first time meeting and she was excited,” a source close to the situation tells Rolling Stone There’s nothing better — or more dangerous — than a backstage camera at an awards show. Offering up the full illusion of behind-the-scenes celebrity voyeurism, these cameras offer a plentiful bounty

Jeff Tweedy never meant to be a memoirist. “I was kind of recruited to write a book based on some agent’s idea that I might be able to write something worth reading,” he says, recalling a conversation five or more years ago. “I said, ‘Sure, I guess.’ It felt accidental.” That somewhat inauspicious beginning led

Good 4 Us! Two albums, both classics. Let’s celebrate a budding rock & roll legend Ever since her January 2021 debut single, “Drivers License,” Olivia Rodrigo has been one of pop’s biggest, brightest, most fascinating, and most brilliant stars. Her brand new second album, Guts, proves what everybody already knew from her instant-classic debut Sour:

special delivery Lindsey Jordan unearths stripped-down, home-recorded demos of five tracks written for 2021 sophomore LP Snail Mail will mark the upcoming second anniversary of her sophomore album, Valentine, with an EP featuring a handful of stripped-down, home-recorded demos. Ahead of the November 3 release of the appropriately titled Valentine Demos EP, Lindsey Jordan has

The song appears on the BTS member’s recently released solo album Layover Despite his best efforts, V just can’t get through to the other side in the music video for “Blue.” The greyscale visual follows the BTS member as he pounds on the door of an apartment and drives frantically around the city, growing more

When the cover of Micky Dolenz Sings R.E.M. began circulating online earlier this month, many people presumed it was some sort of Photoshop prank. Dolenz did record a tribute album to Carole King in 2010, and he followed it up in 2021 with a collection of Michael Nesmith songs, but King wrote several of the

Who run the world? Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, apparently. Both pop stars will be getting the presidential treatment at USA Today and The Tennessean. The nation’s largest newspaper is looking to hire beat reporters whose sole job will be following every movement each pop star makes, the same way journalists will be following Biden and

Visual effects workers at Marvel Studios have voted to form a first-of-its-kind union with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.  The Marvel VFX shop not only enjoyed a historic victory, but a landslide one as well: All votes cast in the election — held by mail between Aug. 21 and Sept. 11 — were

Love Is All She Needs Track will feature on her upcoming LP, ‘Reasonable Woman’ Sia wants the same thing she’s always wanted on her new single, “Gimme Love.” “Oh, please now, do this just for me,” she keens in the song’s chorus, “I don’t ask for much: Gimme love, gimme love, gimme love.” The track,

In the midst of recording his 2021 album Quietly Blowing It, Hiss Golden Messenger — the nom de plume of M.C. Taylor — seriously wondered if it was the end of the road for his indie-rock career. “That record was made during a time of absolute chaos — in the world and also in my brain,”