Late Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie‘s first posthumous album, Away Is Mine, will be released October 16th via Arts & Crafts. The label has shared two songs from the LP, “Hotel Worth” and “Useless Nights.” “Hotel Worth” swings between the serene and the unsettling, with acoustic guitar and lonesome slide …
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In Rolling Stone‘s series At Work, we go behind the curtain with decision-makers across the fast-changing music business — exploring a range of responsibilities, burgeoning ideas, advice for industry newcomers, and more. Read earlier interviews here. Most people in the music industry work one job at a time; Jake Terrell …
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A live capture of Heidi Schreck’s Tony-nominated play, What the Constitution Means to Me, will premiere October 16th on Amazon Prime Video. The recording was made during the final week of the show’s Broadway run at the Helen Hayes Theater in 2019. Oscar-nominated director Marielle Heller (A Beautiful Day in …
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This year has been one long succession of bewildering events, so there was no way the 55th Academy of Country Music Awards weren’t going to feel oh-so-2020. Already rescheduled from its original April date due to Covid-19 and converted to an audience-free event in Nashville for the first-time ever, the …
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“You don’t miss a kiss until the lips are gone.” That’s how Bootsy Collins describes making music by himself, ever since Covid-19 forced him and the musicians he wishes he could jam with into quarantine. “I think we took for granted the freedom that we had to be together and …
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Willie Nelson‘s latest book, Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of the Family Band, is a collaboration with his sibling Bobbie Nelson, a 47-year member of Nelson’s always-in-motion touring group. Released September 15th, it finds Willie and Bobbie recalling their musical lives in alternating chapters. Both Nelsons read the memoir …
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UPDATE #3 (9/17):A teaser trailer has been released for the virtual table read ofFast Times at Ridgemont High, which will take place tonight, September 17th, at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. ** UPDATE #2 (9/14): The virtual table read of Fast Times at Ridgemont High has been rescheduled for Thursday, …
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It was a match made in soundtrack heaven: The new trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming adaptation of Dune — one of the most popular sci-fi novels ever — deploying a rearranged version of Pink Floyd’s “Eclipse,” the closing track from one of the most popular rock albums ever, The Dark …
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When the Covid-19 pandemic hit in March, many adults returned to their parents’ houses to flee lonely city apartments or sheltering in place with prickly roommates. Gideon Grody-Patinkin, 34, was one of them — but instead of regressing in his childhood bedroom and sniping at Mom and Dad, he helped …
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Verzuz will feature its two most iconic artists yet when Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle square off on the quarantine-era song battle show. Brandy and Monica duked it out on the last Verzuz stream. Knight and LaBelle’s match-up will air on Sunday, September 13th simultaneously via the Verzuz Instagram Live …
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