Who better to speak to at the moment than Roger Waters, who wrote about living in “perfect isolation/here behind my wall” back in 1979? The Pink Floyd co-founder and stadium-filling solo artist, who had to postpone his This Is Not a Drill Tour — which was supposed to kick off …
Read More »Virtual Sex Parties Offer Escape from Isolation — If Organizers Can Find a Home
Last Saturday night, I spent three hours in a video conferencing session with 45 strangers, watching a man in a sailor hat enthusiastically eating ass. In another corner, a bearded man in a tastefully minimalist studio apartment ties up a slim dark-haired woman with Shibari rope, her breasts bulging between …
Read More »Madison Beer: A Rising Pop Star Looks Past Her Bubblegum Roots
Madison Beer has been hunkered down on Long Island since the coronavirus pandemic led to lockdowns across the country. The 21-year-old rising pop star has spent her time picking up hobbies: learning French, chipping away at a long list of movies she’s been wanting to watch. Between activities, she’s been …
Read More »Brandy Clark, Caitlyn Smith Set for 'Songwriter Sessions' Livestream
Although the doors of Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum remain closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, two of their most popular programs will open to the public via Instagram Live beginning this week. On Tuesday evenings, the museum will stream the interactive Songwriter Sessions; on Thursday afternoons, …
Read More »Tom Hanks Talks Coronavirus Recovery in 'SNL At Home' Opening Monologue
Tom Hanks served as host of the first socially distanced Saturday Night Live At Home episode, with the actor delivering an opening monologue from his kitchen where he touched on his own recovery from the coronavirus and paid tribute to essential workers. “Hey all you cool cats and kittens,” Hanks …
Read More »In the Horror Story, We Always Die First
George Romero’s 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead is one of the few films of its kind that not only doesn’t kill the token black character first, but makes him the protagonist. Still, after surviving the flesh-eating undead for nearly two hours, the hero dies at the end. I …
Read More »Social Distancing With Warren Haynes: Canceled Shows, New Songs, and Bill Withers
As the world fights a pandemic, we reached out to some of our favorite artists with a few quarantine questions about these unprecedented times. Warren Haynes played at one of the last major arena shows before the lockdown – the “Brothers” tribute to the Allman Brothers Band on March 10 …
Read More »Halsey Donates 100,000 Masks to L.A. Hospitals Fighting COVID-19
Halsey has donated 100,000 masks to various hospitals in Los Angeles that are treating patients with COVID-19. The singer wrote in Instagram: “Every single day I am in awe of the medical workers on the frontlines. Their determination, selflessness and empathy is the single greatest example of our capacity to …
Read More »The Unmistakable Genius of Adam Schlesinger
Since Fountains of Wayne co-founder Adam Schlesinger died of complications from COVID-19 on April 1st, tributes from his many friends and collaborators have poured in from all corners. Here, author and playwright David Bar Katz remembers their 35-year friendship. There are songs we would all have known by heart that …
Read More »Flashback: Hal Willner Recruits Leonard Cohen, Sonny Rollins for Transfixing 'Who by Fire'
Hal Willner wasn’t known for playing music himself. But the producer, who died Monday at 64, had a unique gift for making music happen. Through his marvelously eclectic tribute albums — which featured everything from Tom Waits yowling out Snow White’s “Heigh Ho (The Dwarf’s Marching Song)” to Debbie Harry …
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