I had a conventional small town, Arkansas upbringing. My dad was a full-time poultry technician and part-time rancher who herded cattle on a motorcycle. It wasn’t even a dirt bike; he thought a bigger bike had a smoother ride. He felt the same way about cars – the bigger the better – and when I […]
Chris Cornell’s cover of the John Lennon classic “Watching the Wheels” received the lyric video treatment, and early viewers were able to join the Cornell family in the YouTube Chatroom to watch the clip with wife Vicky and their kids Toni and Christopher Cornell. The song is from Cornell’s first full posthumous album, No One […]
Talk about a belated holiday gift. The Flaming Lips released a new video for “A Change at Christmas (Say It Isn’t So)” on Tuesday, a mere 17 years after the song was first released on the band’s Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell. Directed by Wayne Coyne, the singer can be seen as a Santa […]
If you’re looking to replay some of your favorite old Star Wars video games on modern consoles, PCs, and even smartphones, you may want to check out what the folks at Aspyr (pronounced like “aspire,” for the curious) are up to. After initially finding success porting PC games to Mac in the 2000s, the Austin-based […]
Bleachers frontman and prolific producer Jack Antonoff, along with his sister Rachel Antonoff, took their 7th annual Ally Coalition Talent Show that supports LGBTQ+ youth virtual this year. Even though it was streamed on Twitch, that didn’t make it any less impressive. This year’s lineup included St. Vincent, Hayley Williams, Sleater-Kinney, Lana Del Rey, Spoon, The […]
The long-awaited sequel to 1988’s Coming To America has been in the works for years, but Coming 2 America is finally on the way. Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall lead a long list of characters who are returning to Queens from Zamunda 32 years after the first film was released. The pair have to return to America after […]
To paraphrase a saying attributed to Buddha, when the student is ready, the Leonard Cohen song will appear. Philosopher king and ladies’ man, poet and ordained Buddhist monk, aesthete and pilgrim — in his nearly 50-year musical career, Cohen embodied contradictions and sang his story-songs in a trademark sandpapery voice in the pursuit of beauty […]
If it feels like the most-recent NBA season just ended, well, it did. The strangeness of 2020 engulfed the association, but it led to one of the more innovative ideas of the COVID-era: the bubble. (Mostly) quarantined, teams competed with nary a hitch at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex near Orlando. The season ended […]
Even though this year’s holidays are shittier than ever, we still have Mac DeMarco’s annual Christmas song. “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” done in his signature twangy indie style, is his contribution to the 2020 holiday canon. It comes with a music video where he’s performing in the mountains next to a blow-up Santa […]
Darkside, the electronic duo comprised of Dave Harrington and Nicolas Jaar, is back. They announced that they’ll be releasing their first new album, Spiral, next spring. The pair previously put out their debut LP, Psychic, in 2013. Spiral has been in the works since 2018, and the album was completed last year under the watchful eye of the duo […]