Mac DeMarco is hanging out at home in Los Angeles, playing video games on the couch, when he picks up the phone. “I don’t really know what’s going on, but let’s rock and roll!” he says. This might be the most Mac DeMarco way possible to begin a conversation. His …
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May, 2019
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6 May
Best Country and Americana Songs to Hear Now: Randy Rogers Band, Rhiannon Giddens
Randy Rogers Band chronicle a vacation breakup in “We Never Made It to Mexico,” Rhiannon Giddens reaches across generations and cultures in the gripping “Ten Thousand Voices” and Pink gets an assist from Chris Stapleton in “Love Me Anyway” in this week’s batch of must-hear songs. Davisson Brothers Band, “Unbreak …
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4 May
Watch Reggae Legend Ken Boothe's Rare U.S. Appearance for New Doc 'Inna de Yard'
Few voices in music are as soulful and honeyed as Ken Boothe, the reggae legend whose God-level fame in his home country is showcased in the new documentaryInna de Yard. The film, which premiered earlier this week at the Tribeca Film Festival, highlights both the past and present of reggae …
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3 May
See Cage the Elephant, Beck's Retro Sci-Fi 'Night Running' Video
Cage the Elephant and Beck have dropped the retro music video for their collaborative single “Night Running,” a reggae-tinged track off the band’s new LP Social Cues. The visual, directed by Jennifer Juniper Stratford, stars Cage the Elephant’s Matt Schultz and Beck and uses antiquated video technology and decades-old special …
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2 May
'Shadow' Review: Swords, Doubles and Curiously Boring Bloodshed, Oh My!
It is a time of turmoil for “a great walled city” (any resemblance to China is completely not coincidental) in some undefined long-ago era. Three clans fight for control of the territory; two team up to defeat the third. Then a warrior for one of these last dynasties standing, the …
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1 May
Hear John Prine's Version of 'My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight'
As a young man growing up in Maywood, Illinois, a blue-collar suburb of Chicago, future songwriting icon John Prine and his family would spend summers in Paradise, Kentucky, the Muhlenberg County birthplace of his father, Bill Prine. The younger Prine would later immortalize the coal-mining town in his song “Paradise” …
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April, 2019
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30 April
Why Robert Earl Keen Is Hosting an Americana Podcast
Robert Earl Keen is never short on having a good story to tell, but for his latest project the gregarious Texas Country singer-songwriter is letting others do the talking. Well, mostly. On Americana Podcast: The 51st State, Keen gets behind the mic to host a new interview series with some …
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29 April
See Lil Nas X, Billy Ray Cyrus's First Live Performance of 'Old Town Road'
Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus closed out the 2019 Stagecoach Festival in Indio, California, with the live debut of “Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X’s viral sensation that features the “Achy Breaky Heart” country singer on its chart-topping remix. The pair joined Diplo at the Palomino Stage, with …
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27 April
NRA's Wayne LaPierre Warns of Plot to Oust Him
Wayne LaPierre, the Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association, has written an extraordinary letter to the board of the NRA, accusing the organization’s ceremonial president, Col. Oliver North, of both seeking his ouster and threatening to share a “damaging letter” with the NRA board if LaPierre refused to …
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26 April
17 Takeaways from Maria Butina's Sentencing Memo
[UPDATE: A federal judge has sentenced Butina to a term of 18 months.] Maria Butina is ready to tell her side of the story. Last Friday, the U.S. government filed a sentencing memo calling the Russian national an “access agent,” claiming she was part of a sophisticated intelligence operation that …
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