Paul McCartney is showing no signs of slowing down. The 83-year-old Beatle will embark on a fall North American leg of his Got Back tour, starting Sept. 29 in Palm Desert, Ca. Dates are on the books through Nov. 24-25 in Chicago. Got Back will visit a range of arenas, amphitheaters and even the new,…
In April 1993, celebrating our 8th anniversary, like we’d forgotten to do it the month before (entirely possible) because the launch was March 1985, we ran a cover of upcoming actress Adrienne Shelly kissing Evan Dando of the Lemonheads. I mean, really kissing. No-one, we were delighted to discover, had ever shown two people with…
A lot has changed for Hannah Dorothy in the last five years. The former professional surfer was forced to hang up her board after a career-ending injury. But when one wave closed out, another opened—this time in the world of songwriting. What began as a creative outlet during the pandemic has catapulted Hannah from a…
Nick Hexum thought he was going to die. During 311’s self-financed tour to support their first major label album, 1993’s Music, the group’s lead singer and guitarist was driving the band to a gig in rural Missouri in an old RV they had borrowed from drummer Chad Sexton’s father. Hexum noticed that the vehicle started…
This jazz-rooted, seven-piece London combo first whetted the palettes of forward-looking music connoisseurs with their 2019 self-titled EP, and became word-of-mouth sensations on the strength of their 2022 full-length debut Could We Be More. Now, in a development sure to please the thousands of new ear canals currently ingesting Kokoroko’s entrancing, groovy sounds, Tuff Times…
Melinda Duterte’s Jay Som project gets a lift from Paramore’s Hayley Williams and Jimmy Eat World’s Jim Adkins on Belong, her first new album in six years. The 11-track project will be released Oct. 10 through Polyvinyl Record Co. and is led by the Adkins-featuring “Float” and fellow new song “A Million Reasons Why.” Since…
The great British film director Alfred Hitchcock, who, if he didn’t invent the modern thriller certainly set the mold, once said: “A star is someone the camera loves.” And by that definition alone Alexa Dark is a star. And Spanish-American Alexa would particularly like that assertion, because her music — for which she is definitely…
Wedding comedy with difficult subject matter is serious business. It takes a deft hand to craft a film that intertwines laughter with trauma without coming off as insulting or pandering. Recent films such as Amsterdam (2022) and Don’t Look Up (2021), despite being made by skilled directors David O. Russell and Adam McKay, tried to…
At this point, I’m sure everyone reading this site is familiar with Mdou Moctar; our own AcidJack posted a killer recording of him from the 2017 Hopscotch fest. His version of Saharan folk music meets the unbridled shred of VH’s “Eruption” has caught the ears of curious listeners everywhere. I’ve seen them many times, and…
2000s era New York rock outfit the Rapture will return to the live stage later this year for their first tour since 2012 and first shows of any kind since four California-area one-offs in 2020. The trek will begin Sept. 16 in Minneapolis and run through Nov. 23 in Barcelona; click here for tickets, which…
