“We wanted to celebrate the closing of True West with something beginning,” Ethan Hawke said Saturday night at a New York City party celebrating both the closing of Hawke and Paul Dano’s performance of Sam Shepard’s drama True West and the album release party of singer-songwriter Ben Dickey. Dickey, a …

Less than a year after Paul Simon ended his farewell tour with a hometown gig in Queens, New York, the singer-songwriter will return to the stage after booking a headlining slot at San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival this August. While the festival won’t announce their full lineup until March 26th, …

A review of “The Therapist,” this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, coming up just as soon as Judas is the Hamburglar… Applying math to art is always a foolhardy endeavor. But I can’t help looking at this season of Nine-Nine — one of the series’ best creative stretches ever, at an improbably …

British reggae outfit Steel Pulse unveiled the lead single, “Cry Cry Blood,” for their first album in 15 years, Mass Manipulation, out May 17th via Rootfire Cooperative and the band’s own imprint, Wiseman Doctrine. “Cry Cry Blood” is a meditative rocker with deftly placed horns, guitars and strings bubbling up …

Jay-Z‘s The Blueprint, Cyndi Lauper‘s She’s So Unusual, Curtis Mayfield’s Superfly soundtrack, Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” and Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam” are among the 25 recordings that will be added to the Library of Congress‘ National Recording Registry this year. The eclectic list also includes Earth, Wind and Fire’s hit …

Even with pop acts straddling ever so many styles, sometimes within the course of one song, it’s easy to imagine the iTunes “genre” column drawing a blank over 24-7 Spyz’s “Home.” The track opens with gently played guitar notes, which abruptly stop before being overtaken by pummeling, metal-dungeon drums and …

John Oliver dedicated Sunday’s Last Week Tonight to “one of America’s favorite pastimes,” public shaming. He detailed the devastating effects and the ethical grey areas of targeting a public versus a private citizen. On hand to discuss her own “shitstorm” experience was Monica Lewinsky, who became a punching bag for …

Anderson .Paak is earnest. That’s not a bad or damning trait — in fact, it’s responsible for much of his success — but at times it can be a grating one. On his latest, “King James,” .Paak crafts his take on the protest song, but its terminally laid back delivery …

The Avengers prepare for one last stand against Thanos, and get some added help from a fresh ringer, in the new trailer for Avengers: Endgame, out April 26th. The clip finds Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.), stranded on a spaceship, reflecting on his Iron Man origins and his failure to …

Just when you thought it was safe to answer your cell phone, the Jerky Boys are back. “I just started thinking to myself, ‘You know, people have been asking me for decades,’” Johnny Brennan, the G.O.A.T. of prank callers, tells Rolling Stone of his decision to restart the 1990s comedy …