The Go-Go’s are releasing their documentary of the same name this coming winter, featuring interviews with Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle, Gina Schock, Kathy Valentine, and Jane Wiedlin. Part of the film focuses on the band’s efforts to write a new song, “Club Zero,” about female empowerment — and they dropped …
Read More »'The First Time' With Keegan-Michael Key
Keegan-Michael Key talks seeing U2 in concert, his new film Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey,and his love for Jimi Hendrix in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s The First Time. Key kicks off with the first concert he ever saw: U2 on their Joshua Tree tour in Pontiac, Michigan, in …
Read More »Early Data Suggests a Successful Covid-19 Vaccine Could Be on the Way
More than eight months into humanity’s fight with Covid-19, American drugmaker Pfizer has announced that an early vaccine trial has been successful in preventing the virus, suggesting that it is more than 90% effective in patients with no previous exposure to Covid. According to The New York Times, the information …
Read More »Four Essential Releases This Bandcamp Friday — From Live Jason Isbell to Blink-182 Covers
Since March, when the Covid-19 crisis flattened the livelihoods of many in the music business, Bandcamp has held a monthly holiday in which it waives its full revenue share on all sales. The idea was an immediate hit. Bandcamp Friday, which falls on November 6th this month, has successfully directed …
Read More »Thom Zimny: How I Made 'Bruce Springsteen's Letter to You'
“It’s snowing! It’s snowing!” The man gleefully exclaiming this meteorological fact is watching tiny flakes begin to fall on the ground. Seconds before, he was telling the group of folks milling around the room to gather ’round (“Gen-tle-men, congregate!”) with all the authority of a general assembling the troops. Then …
Read More »Bernie Taupin on His 53-Year Saga With Elton John and Hopes for the Future
The pandemic forced Elton John to radically alter nearly all of his 2020 plans, including his sold-out Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour that’s now on hold until at least next summer. But for Bernie Taupin, his songwriting partner of the past 53 years, it’s basically been business as usual. “Everything …
Read More »'Studio 54: Night Magic': See Photos from Brooklyn Museum's Exhibit
Studio 54 may have closed four decades ago, but it becomes more iconic every day. Studio 54: Night Magic, a new exhibit at Brooklyn Museum (and book), studies the nightclub’s history and influence. Co-founders Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager opened Studio 54 on April 26, 1977. It would go on …
Read More »'The Trial of the Chicago 7': The Sixties Told in Sorkinese
Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7, which is now streaming on Netflix, has the benefit of good timing. The movie, as is clear from its title, is taking on the notorious legal battle waged against the so-called “Chicago Seven,” a disjointed crew of anti-Vietnam War activists and counterculturalists …
Read More »Stevie Wonder Releases First New Music in 15 Years
Stevie Wonder has kept a relatively low profile over the last decade, but that quiet period — which follows a health scare — seems to be ending. On Tuesday, the 70-year-old legend announced the release of two new songs, his first in 15 years. In equally startling news, Wonder said …
Read More »Youth Organizers: Mariam Beshir of Gorham Anti-Racism Development
Since May 2020, youth organizers across the country have been mobilizing against police brutality and working for systemic change in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder. Some of them had organized for social justice before, but many of them took to the streets for the first time and without an …
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