The Wild Feathers will launch a spring headlining tour in support of their latest album, Greetings From the Neon Frontier. Taking its name from the LP, the Neon Frontier Tour finds the Nashville-based band hitting the road in Texas on April 11th, before winding their way though cities like New …

Ellie Goulding reimagined her Diplo-produced single “Close to Me” as a spirited folk sing-along on The Late Show Monday. Goulding teamed with house band Jon Batiste and Stay Human, who crafted a delicate arrangement of intertwining acoustic guitars, tender piano and simple percussion. Throughout the performance, Goulding found new pockets …

Dylan LeBlanc, the Muscle Shoals, Alabama, singer-songwriter whose ethereal album Cautionary Tale was a must-hear of 2016, has announced his latest project. Renegade, released via ATO Records, will arrive June 7th The 29-year-old LeBlanc recorded the LP with Dave Cobb (Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell) at Nashville’s RCA Studio A, backed …

When Ben Dickey returned home to his farm in Louisiana after spending months working on Ethan Hawke’s film Blaze, he fell into a depression. “I was still in a Blaze way,” says Dickey, who, after playing the role of Seventies country outsider Blaze Foley in his acting debut, says he …

Gayle King’s extended interview with R. Kelly aired Friday as a primetime special that showed the tense moments immediately after the singer’s outburst. In a heated segment from the interview that went viral earlier in the week, an emotional Kelly stood up from his chair and started yelling at the …

CupcakKe has returned with her second new track: the hard-hitting, Netflix film-referencing “Bird Box.” The Chicago rapper’s previous release was “Squidward Nose.” On “Bird Box,” CupcakKe makes the obvious double-entendre with the title of Netflix’s hit film of the same name while going about a nimble take on her usual …

The Budos Band slither through another hypnotic instrumental, “Arcane Rambler,” set to appear on the group’s forthcoming album, V, out April 12th via Daptone Records. “Arcane Rambler” finds the Budos Band’s horn section crafting an arrangement that bristles with dark soul as it flies atop a sturdy backbeat of rumbling …

If you’re flipping through Rachel Morrison’s family albums looking for an early glimpse of the groundbreaking director of photography — whose one-two punch of Mudbound in 2017 and Black Panther in 2018 made her the first woman to score an Oscar nomination for cinematography and shoot a superhero film — …

When the late, great critic Gene Siskel hated a movie, he’d say he wished the filmmakers had asked themselves, “Is my film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch together?” This question applies neatly to television as well. I’ve often sat through hilarious cast press conferences …

Rest in peace, Luke Perry — you walked so Jordan Catalano could run. The first time most of us saw him, he was bad boy Dylan McKay on the Nineties hit Beverly Hills, 90210, easily the best TV teen drama ever. He was the new kid in town, all smoldering …