Watchmen saw this coming. Some fiction offers an escape from difficult realities. Other art holds up a lens to the world we know, magnifying things we haven’t looked at closely enough. Watchmen, HBO’s adaptation of the iconic Eighties comic book series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, fell into the …

Roger Waters will release physical versions of his concert film Us + Them and its soundtrack this fall. For now, he’s releasing a clip showcasing a suite of songs from Pink Floyd‘s The Wall album, starting with a helicopter spotlight surveying the crowd during “The Happiest Days of Our Lives.” …

2 Chainz, Brandi Carlile, Brittany Howard, Leon Bridges and more are coming together for Small Business Live, a benefit livestream to help small businesses in the wake of COVID-19, with a focus on those owned by women and people of color. The event will be held Saturday, June 20th from …

The newest chapter of Bruce Springsteen‘s ongoing live download series is a show he played at the Hovet arena in Stockholm, Sweden, on June 25, 2005. It’s a solo, acoustic gig from the Devils and Dust tour featuring stripped-down arrangements of songs from his entire career. Here’s a preview of …

Yusuf/Cat Stevens has re-recorded his landmark 1970 LP Tea For the Tillerman in honor of its 50th anniversary. It comes out on September 18th, but he’s just released a video for his new take on “Where Do the Children Play?” The video, which uses stop-motion animations, shows two children living …

Harry Styles announced that he will be postponing all of his North American tour dates to 2021. Style’s Love on Tour trek was originally supposed to kick off in Europe this past April, but the spread of COVID-19 caused him to quickly reschedule that tour. “This summer we were excited …

Steve Earle sums up the anxiety of the Trump era with his new song “Times Like These,” presented as a solo acoustic performance. Earle penned the song at the beginning of Donald Trump’s presidency, and he addresses the uncertainty of the moment and the whiplash of that change. “Times like …

“If the music industry wants to support black lives, labels and platforms can start with amending contracts, distributing royalties, diversifying boardrooms, and retroactively paying back all the black artists, and their families, they have built their empires on.” This statement, from professor and author Josh Kun, caught fire in influential …

Paul McCartney posted a statement of support for protests for racial justice on Friday. “We all need to work together to overcome racism in any form,” he wrote. “We need to learn more, listen more, talk more, educate ourselves and, above all, take action.” He also added links to Black …

Jake Paul has been charged with trespassing days after the YouTube star shared video of himself during the looting of a Scottsdale, Arizona, mall. “We’ve received 100s of tips in response to the events at Scottsdale Fashion Center,” the Scottsdale Police Department tweeted Thursday. “In our continued investigation it was …