While Trump’s Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was painting a somewhat rosy picture as to where the U.S. economy is heading, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett used harrowing terms like “grave situation,” “negative shock that our economy has ever seen” and “Great Depression” to describe the situation. Both administration officials …
Read More »Trey Anastasio on Phish's 'Sigma Oasis' and How COVID-19 May Change Music Forever
Trey Anastasio has left his New York apartment exactly three times in the past month.The first of those outings was March 21st, whenhe went for a walk in Central Park with his wife, Sue. The following day, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters he was angry people were still hanging out …
Read More »Flashback: Roy Orbison Sings Neil Diamond's 'Sweet Caroline'
Born April 23rd, 1936, in Vernon, Texas, rock & roll icon Roy Orbison would have celebrated his 84th birthday today. A pioneering artist in the Fifties whose distinctive look and operatic voice gave rock and pop songs a stark, dramatic edge, Orbison was a superstar throughout the world, breaking through …
Read More »Watch Bruce Springsteen Play 'Jersey Girl' at 'Jersey 4 Jersey' COVID-19 Relief Event
Bruce Springsteen and wife Patti Scialfa joined together to perform two songs during the Jersey 4 Jersey COVID-19 relief telethon, which benefits the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund. “We’re here tonight dedicated to our healthcare workers and of those who’ve lost loved ones,” he said at the start of the …
Read More »The Forbidden City: Face-to-Face with New York in Crisis
For the first time in its long history, New York City is silent. Fear is palpable in the air. You see it in the eyes of the workers in the grocery store, the pharmacy, and the corner deli. These are almost all people of color. They tell you they are …
Read More »Inside the Bestselling Medical Mystery 'Hidden Valley Road'
A quick skim of writers’ Twitter feeds (including, uh, my own) reveals they can be a self-aggrandizing lot. Not Robert Kolker — though a bit of ego would be justified. Kolker’s first book, Lost Girls, the story of a still-at-large serial killer targeting call girls on Long Island, was acclaimed …
Read More »The Story of 4/20
In 1971, somewhere around harvest time in California, a group of San Rafael High School students known as “the Waldos,” because they liked to congregate outside class against a wall, inherited a map. It allegedly led to a crop of abandoned cannabis plants near the Point Reyes Peninsula Coast Guard …
Read More »See Kesha's Intimate 'Resentment' Performance on 'Fallon'
Kesha phoned into the latest socially distanced episode of The Tonight Show Friday to deliver an intimate home recording of “Resentment,” a song from her 2020 LP High Road. The studio version of the single features Brian Wilson and Sturgill Simpson, but Kesha stripped the acoustic ballad to its core …
Read More »See Toni Braxton's Homemade Video for 'Do It'
A month and change into quarantine, the number of music videos shot at home is starting to swell. Here’s Drake parading around his palatial mansion; there’s the rising band Younger Hunger making mayhem in their modest backyard. Toni Braxton offered up a homemade clip of her own on Friday: a …
Read More »'RS Interview: Special Edition' With Roger Waters
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 …
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