MGMT have a new song out called “In the Afternoon,” first debuted live in Las Vegas last month. The official single arrives with a music video that resembles classic MTV-era clips, with television watermarks and creepy stock footage projected onto band members Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser’s faces. MGMT self-directed …
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Brockhampton are no strangers to weird music videos, but their new clip for “Sugar” might be their most surreal one yet. Directed (as many of their videos are) by band leader Kevin Abstract, the short film opens with a couple having sex in a cartoonish bedroom, when they are suddenly …
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There are two ways you can go when you’re covering a song like Leonard Cohen’s “So Long, Marianne.” You can try to fill in the colors, adding expressive melodic flourishes that emphasize the emotion in Cohen’s lyrics— or you can take the opposite tack, leaning into the dry, sardonic delivery …
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Everything you need to know about Jennifer Lopez hosting Saturday Night Live can be found in the monologue. It’s not included below, but that’s because it’s a statement of purpose rather than a comedic statement. There are maybe two jokes tops in the monologue, which eschews comedy in favor of …
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Camila Cabello led a pink-clad choir through a rousing rendition of her new song, “Living Proof” on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Friday. Cabello, the choir and her backing band were all decked out in pink — the band’s instruments were pink as well — creating a serene-looking scene to fit …
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Darlene Love criticized Brad Lachman Productions for allegedly snubbing her and asking other artists to sing her hit “Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)” at the annual Rockefeller Christmas tree lighting ceremony. “Such an insult and let down!” Love wrote on Facebook. “They book these young artists who can’t even hit …
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Once upon a time, television was known as (to quote former FCC chairman Newton Minnow) “the vast wasteland,” where anyone thirsting for exciting, substantive programming was expected to go on wandering and wandering. By the start of the 2000s, ambitious and thoughtful series like The Sopranos and The Wire had …
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M. Ward will release his 10th solo album, Migration Stories, on April 3rd, 2020 via Anti Records. The singer-songwriter will promote the record on a North American tour that launches April 17th in Philadelphia and wraps May 22nd in Los Angeles. Ward previewed the LP, which follows 2018’s What a …
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You have to wade deep into the generous, overwhelming, embarrassment-of-riches expanded reissue of 1999 before you stumble across “Purple Music,” finally available for public consumption after circulating in bootleg form for a solid portion of its 37 years of existence. At nearly 11 minutes long, “Purple Music” is one of …
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Now in its 93rd year, the spectacle of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has ushered in the holiday season with marching bands, colorful floats, character balloons, musical performances, and, of course, the arrival of Santa Claus. This year’s festivities also include a handful of country stars, although you’ll need to …
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