YouTube at 15 is our package of stories celebrating the streaming site’s anniversary. It’s hard to imagine, but there really was a time before makeup tutorials, conspiracy explainers, on-demand music videos — really, viral videos at large. Since it’s become such a ubiquitous part of culture, we set out to …
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Nine Inch Nails‘ Trent Reznor, Janelle Monáe and Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney will appear at South by Southwest 2020, delivering keynote speeches and joining in conversation. The 34th annual conference will be held in Austin, Texas, from March 13th through the 22nd. Ahead of their induction into the Rock and …
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Napalm Death will always be best known as the band that, in the mid-to-late Eighties, united the aggression of hardcore with the darkness of metal, sped the whole thing up to outrageous tempos, and topped it off with the catchy moniker of grindcore. And more than three decades after landmark …
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The Jesus Rolls John Turturro returns as Jesus Quintana, The Big Lebowski’s bowling alley enemy, for a new spin-off film. The clip opens as Jesus is released from prison and the warden warns him that he has one “strike” left. Jesus, however, is unconcerned. The rest of the scenes tease …
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Add it to the list of left turns from the enigmatic country artist — Sam Hunt‘s new track “Hard to Forget” opens with a lengthy sample of 1950s honky-tonk star Webb Pierce‘s classic “There Stands the Glass.” Apart from the fact that it samples a 67-year-old country song, “Hard to …
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311 have announced an extensive North American tour to celebrate their 30th anniversary. The “50 Dates in 50 States” tour kicks off with two nights at Mardi Gras in New Orleans, with the band performing at the Fillmore on February 20th and 21st. They’ll hit major cities across the spring, …
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What’s better than one diva headlining this year’s Super Bowl LIV Halftime show? Two! Repping Latina talent from Barranquilla to the Bronx, Colombian rock-pop queen Shakira and Nuyorican superstar Jennifer Lopez touched down on Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium Sunday night — and put on a show you “can’t remember to …
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Another Sundance logs itself into the collective memory banks — another week-plus of debuting features and disappointing follow-ups, fortunes made and filmmaking reputations established, long screening lines and literally breathless Q&As (that altitude!) comes to a close. It was a really strong year for documentaries ranging from just-the-facts-ma’am journalism to …
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Dashboard Confessional have unearthed a video of a stripped-down rendition of their breakout hit “Screaming Infidelities” at a July 2001 concert in Hartford, Connecticut. “Screaming Infidelities” originally appeared on Dashboard’s 2000 debut, The Swiss Army Romance, although it was later reworked and anchored their 2001 follow-up The Places You Have …
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There were only two men on the crew for Taylor Swift documentary Miss Americana — and one was an assistant. “I always have a male production assistant because I feel like it’s important to show that men can get coffee for women,” director Lana Wilson tells Rolling Stone. “I’ve usually …
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