Mac DeMarco’s career strategy is an admirable one: Make a handful of straightforward indie rock records, become one of your generation’s most beloved musicians, then do whatever the hell you want. DeMarco’s popularity could easily warrant a major-label deal and recording time in souped-up studios, but he’s still out here recording at his house and…
The “serial intruder” who rushed Ariana Grande on the red carpet at the Singapore premiere of Wicked: For Good has been deported and banned from the country. The Singaporean news outlet The Straits Times reports that 26-year-old social media personality Johnson Wen has been deported to his home country of Australia and is barred from…
In 2024, Donald Glover was hospitalized following a Childish Gambino show in New Orleans, Louisiana. Last night (November 22), during his first performance since then, Glover revealed that he had suffered from a stroke. “I had a really bad pain in my head in Louisiana, and I did the show anyway. I couldn’t really see…
Before she joined the cast of SNL, Sarah Sherman was best known for her body horror-inspired stand-up comedy. In that regard, she has a lot of creative overlap with Gwar, the thrash metal outfit whose live shows are rife with fake blood and hilariously exaggerated gore. Gwar often incorporate effigies of public figures in their…
Anjimile has shared a new song. “Auld Lang Syne II,” produced by Brad Cook, marks the North Carolina folk singer-songwriter’s first new music since 2023’s The King. Check it out below. “‘Auld Lang Syne II’ was originally intended as something of a wedding present for my best friend, who got married a few years back,”…
Last fall, Donald Glover was supposed to go on a big tour for Bando Stone & The New World, which he’d been saying would be his final album under his Childish Gambino moniker. After suddenly postponing a bunch of those shows, however, Glover canceled the rest of the tour, citing an unspecified health crisis that…
Peaer, the New York slowcore trio started by bandleader Peter Katz in 2014, have announced their first new album in nearly seven years. Doppelgänger is out January 16 via Danger Collective. Their fourth LP is led by the single “Button.” Give that new song a listen below. Katz wrote “Button” after beginning a full-time office…
Bob Dylan and Van Morrison go way back. The two legendary contemporaries have covered one another tons of times over the years. They’ve performed together on multiple occasions — including, as Rolling Stone points out, a 1988 co-headlining tour. They were both in The Last Waltz. Dylan has played his own versions of Van Morrison’s…
David Byrne has shared a new song that serves as a reunion with Brian Eno. Listen to “T Shirt,” co-written by the pair, below, via Matador. It comes with a visualizer featuring a sequence of varyingly heartwarming slogan T-shirts whose messages range from “Make America Gay Again” to “I’m with stupid” and “With a body like…
Esther Rose released her album Want back in May, and as is often the case, there were songs left over. Two of them see release today, and they have fabulous backstories. First up, a slow-burn folk-rock tune called “That’s My DJ,” about which Rose writes: When I moved to Santa Fe, I had a bit…
